different between pinfall vs infall

English

Etymology

pin +? fall

Noun

pinfall (plural pinfalls)

1. (wrestling) A victorious maneuver in which both of an opponent's shoulders are held against the mat for a prescribed period of time.
   • 2005, Jon Gallo, "Hammond's Cohen an Artist on the Mat," Washington Post, 3 Feb. (retrieved 14 July 2008),

     Cohen is best known for the confidence he displays on the wrestling mat, . . . stringing one move after another until he hears the referee's hand slap the mat to signal a pinfall.

2. (bowling) The number of pins toppled by a bowler or bowling team during a game, tournament, career, or some other measured period.
   • 2007, Neil Amdur, "Bowling: Why a 900 Series Just Isn’t What It Used to Be ," New York Times, 1 Jul. (retrieved 14 July 2008),

     Allison, a member of the Bowling Hall of Fame, recently moved into ninth place for career pinfall with more than 103,000.

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.

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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