different between decline vs fal

English

Etymology

From Middle English declinen, from Old French decliner, from Latin declinare (“to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline”), from de (“down”) + cl?n? (“I bend, I incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ley- (English lean).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??kla?n/
• Hyphenation: de?cline
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

decline (countable and uncountable, plural declines)

1. Downward movement, fall.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. A weakening.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. A reduction or diminution of activity.
6. The act of declining or refusing something.

Antonyms

• incline

Translations

Verb

decline (third-person singular simple present declines, present participle declining, simple past and past participle declined)

1. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.

2. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.

3. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

   • in melancholy site, with head declined
4. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.

   • You have declin'd his means.

   • He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it.

5. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.

   a line that declines from straightness

   conduct that declines from sound morals

   • Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

6. (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
   • 1626, Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor

     Could I decline this dreadful hour?

7. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender; more specifically, to recite all the different declined forms of a noun.
   • 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster (first edition)

     after the first declining of a noun and a verb

8. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
9. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.

   The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.

Usage notes

• Decline, refuse, forbear, refrain: Decline is gentler than refuse and carries a connotation that the non-acceptance is an acceptable or anticipated option (decline an invitation) or the result of a considered decision (the judge declined to grant the motion). Refuse has a stronger connotation of rejection, firmness, resistance, or non-compliance. For example, if someone declines to give their name, that suggests they were given a choice and elected not to give their name. If someone refuses to give their name, the connotation is more toward a suggestion that they normally should have given their name and are being intransigent. Forbear or refrain, conversely, suggest choosing not to do something that one might indulge in or be tempted to do (refrain from smoking), with forbear having an added connotation of showing some fortitude in withstanding the temptation (forbear to show anger). Refrain can also be used to refer to a general policy or preference rather than a choice on a single occasion.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• decline in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• decline in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• decline at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Delnice

Portuguese

Verb

decline

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of declinar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of declinar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of declinar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of declinar

Romanian

Verb

decline

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of declina
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of declina

Spanish

Verb

decline

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of declinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of declinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of declinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of declinar.

English

Verb

fal

1. Obsolete spelling of fall
   • 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie

     By chaunce, in Livias modest company;
     When, after the god-saving ceremony,
     For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery;
     Out goes his rapier, and to Livia
     He shewes the ward by puncta reversa

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spala, from Proto-Indo-European *p?l-, *sp?l- (“to fall”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ?????? (spháll?, “to overthrow”), Lithuanian pùlti (“to attack, rush”), German fallen (“to fall”).

Verb

fal (first-person singular past tense fala, participle falur)

1. I forgive
2. I give (as a present)
3. I pray, am respectful
4. I salute, greet
5. to set (of the sun)

Related terms

• falje
• falë
• falas
• faltore
• faj

References

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?l]
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pad? (“dam, weir”). Cognates include Finnish pato (“dam”).

Noun

fal (plural falak)

2. wall

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Uralic *pala- (“to devour”). Cognates include Finnish palaa (“to burn”).

Verb

fal

2. (transitive) to devour, gorge, wolf, scarf (eat greedily, voraciously, or ravenously)

   Synonyms: zabál, habzsol, tömi magát

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• (wall): fal in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (to devour): fal in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Noun

fal

1. indefinite accusative singular of falur
2. indefinite dative singular of falur

Kott

Alternative forms

• phal

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *?apV ("hotness, sweat"). Compare Assan palá, pfóltu, paltu ("hot").

Adjective

fal

1. hot, warm

Related terms

• ap?k?
• ap?k? ugana?
• ap?k?án
• pala

Ladin

Noun

fal m (plural fai)

1. error

Luxembourgish

Verb

fal

1. second-person singular imperative of falen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse falr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??l/

Adjective

fal (masculine and feminine fal, neuter falt, definite singular and plural fale, comparative falare, indefinite superlative falast, definite superlative falaste)

1. (archaic) for sale
2. (archaic) available

References

• “fal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal/

Noun

fal f

1. genitive plural of fala

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse falr

Adjective

fal (not comparable)

1. (dated) for sale, that can be bought, bribable, corrupt

   en fal kvinna

   a prostitute

Declension

Related terms

• falbjuda
• falhet

References

• fal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
• fal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• Alf, alf

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (fa?l).

Noun

fal (definite accusative fal?, plural fallar)

1. fortune telling, omen

Declension

See also

• fala inanma, fals?z da kalma
• falc?
• fal bakmak
• kahve fal?

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English fall and German Fall.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal/

Noun

fal (nominative plural fals)

1. the action of falling
2. (grammar) grammatical case (in classic or original Volapük (Volapük rigik: kimfal (“nominative”), kimafal (“genitive”), borrowed from German Fall (“case”))

Declension

Derived terms

• däfalön (“to fall to pieces”)
• falayan (“trapdoor, hatch”)
• falön (“to fall”)
• fälön (“to make or cause to fall, to fell”)
• vatafal (“water fall”)