different between incall vs infall

English

Noun

incall (plural incalls)

1. A visit by a client to a provider of some service, such as a massage therapist or a prostitute.
   • 2014, Stephen McEvoy, Becoming a Professional Massage Therapist: Getting to Your Destination, Stephen A. McEvoy (?ISBN), page 33:

     Some massage therapists only provide incall services because of the travel and setup times required for outcalls. A few massage therapists only provide outcalls because they do not have an office. When setting your rates, […]

2. (rare, possibly nonstandard) An incoming call (on a telephone).
   • 2002, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents, page 579:

     In a mobile communications system including a mobile telephone, a home mobile switching center containing a subscriber […] a method of seamlessly routing an incall from the originating mobile switching center to the visited mobile switching center […]

   • 2005, Beijing Review, page 212:

     Designers try to introduce as many new elements as possible into the design, such as the shell form, the powder box form, the twinkling light effect signaling an incall and double folding screens. "The time is ripe for the feminine cellphone […] "

Alternative forms

• in-call

See also

• outcall

Anagrams

• -clinal, call in, call-in, callin', clinal

English

Etymology

From in- +? fall.

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /??nf??l/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /?n?f??l/

Noun

infall (countable and uncountable, plural infalls)

1. The act or process of falling in.
2. An incursion; an inroad.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Carlyle to this entry?)

3. (countable) The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.
4. (astronomy, uncountable) Movement towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity; especially the process whereby gas falls towards a neutron star or black hole at high speed, forming a plasma

Verb

infall (third-person singular simple present infalls, present participle infalling, simple past infell, past participle infallen)

1. (intransitive) To fall in.
2. (intransitive, astronomy) To undergo infall.
   • 1997, Bo Reipurth, Claude Bertout, Herbig-Haro flows and the birth of low mass stars:

     After this time the beam mass loss rate decreases since once the expansion wave radius is larger than the beam, material initially outside the beam starts to infall and compensate for material which is collapsing at centre of the core [...]

Derived terms

• infalling

References

• Urban Exploration Resource

Anagrams

• Fallin, fall in, fallin'

Swedish

Etymology

From falla in, to realize.

Pronunciation

Noun

infall n

1. a sudden idea, a whim

Declension