Fall through

Definition

fall / fↄ:l / v ( pt fell /fel/; pp fallen / 'fↄ:lǝn /) ၁။ (က) က်သည္။ ျပဳတ္က်သည္။ He slipped and fell (ten feet). ❍ The book fell off the table onto the floor. ❍ He fell into the river. ❍ She fell over and banged her head ❍The baby was trying to walk but kept falling down. ❍ I need a new bicycle lamp—my old one fell off and broke. ❍ The roof of the tunnel fell in, burying six miners. (ခ) လဲသည္။ လဲက်သည္။ လဲၿပိဳသည္။ လဲၿပိဳက်သည္။ ျပဳတ္သည္။ Many trees fell in the storm. ❍ ( fig ) Six wickets fell (ie Six batsmen in cricket were dismissed) before lunch. ❍ Part of the hotel fell into the sea. ❍ The old abbey is falling down. ၂။ က်သည္။ ေႂကြသည္။ ရြာသည္။ The rain was falling steadily. ❍ The leaves fall in autumn. ၃။ ဖားလ်ားက်သည္။ ဖားလ်ားခ်ထားသည္။ Her hair fell over her shoulders in a mass of curls. ၄။ ~ ( away/off ) နိမ့္ဆင္းသြားသည္။ Beyond the hill, the land falls (away) sharply towards the river. ၅။ ေလ်ာ့နည္းသြားသည္။ က် သည္။ Their profits have fallen by 30 per cent. ❍ Share prices fell 30 p. ❍ Prices continued to fall on the stock market today. ❍ falling birth rates ❍ The temperature fell sharply in the night. ၆။ (က) ျပဳတ္က်သည္။ The coup failed but the government fell shortly afterwards. (ခ) ~ ( to sb ) တစ္စံုတစ္ဦး လက္သို႔ က်ေရာက္သည္။ က်သည္။ Troy finally fell (to the Greeks). ❍ The constituency has now fallen to the Democrats. ၇။ တိုက္ပြဲ တြင္ က်ဆံုးသည္။ a memorial to those who fell (in battle). ၈။ ~ ( into sth ) တစ္စံုတစ္ခုေသာ အေျခအေနသို႔ ေရာက္ရိွသြားသည္။ fall asleep ❍ He fell silent. ❍ Has she fallen ill again? ❍ The book fell open (ie opened by chance) at a page of illustrations. ❍ She fell an easy prey to his charm. ❍ fall under the influence of sb ❍ He fell into a doze. ❍ We fell easily into conversation. ❍ The house fell into decay. ၉။ ~ ( on sb/sth ) (ၿငိမ္၊ ေမွာင္ စသည္) က်သြားသည္။ A sudden silence fell. ❍ Darkness falls quickly in the tropics. ❍ An expectant hush fell on the guests. ၁၀။ က်ေရာက္သည္။ Easter falls early this year. ❍ Christmas Day falls on a Monday. ၁၁။ က်ေရာက္သည္။ အက်ံဳးဝင္သည္။ Out of over 400 staff there are just 7 that fall into this category. ❍ This case falls outside my jurisdiction. ❍ This falls under the heading of scientific research. ၁၂။ (မ်က္စိ) ေရာက္ သြားသည္။ က်ေရာက္သည္။ Which syllable does the stress of this word fall on? ❍ My eye fell on (ie I suddenly saw) a curious object. ❍ A shadow fell accorss her face. ၁၃။ (လႊတ္ခနဲ) ေျပာသည္။ (ဖြင့္) ဟ သည္။ I guessed what was happening from a few words she let fall (ie from what she said). ❍ ( rhet ) Not a word fell from his lips. n ၁။ [C] လိမ့္က်ျခင္း။ I had a fall (from a horse) and broke my arm. ❍ That was a nasty fall. ၂။ ~ (of sth) (က) [C] က်လာေသာအရာ။ က်ျခင္း။ a heavy fall of snow/rain ❍ a fall of rock(s). (ခ) [sing] အက်။ က်ပံု။ the fall of the cards/dice. ၃။ [C] ~ ( in sth ) (တန္ဖိုး၊ ဦးေရ) က်ဆင္းျခင္း။ a steep fall in prices/profits ❍ a fall in the numbers attending. ၄။ [sing] ~ ( of sth ) ပ်က္စီးရျခင္း။ က်ျခင္း။ ျပဳတ္က်ျခင္း။ the fall of the Roman Empire/of Singapore ❍ events leading to the fall of the last Labour government. ၅။ [C] ( US ) = AUTUMN: in the fall of 1970 ❍ last fall. ၆။ the Fall [sing] ( Bible ) အာဒံႏွင့္ဧဝ ဘုရားသခင္ စကား နားမေထာင္သျဖင့္ အီဒင္ဥယ်ာဥ္ ထဲမွ ထြက္သြားရေသာ ပ်က္ခန္း။ ၇။ falls [pl] ေရတံခြန္။ The falls upstream are full of salmon. ❍ Niagara Falls. ❏ fall about [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အူႏိွပ္ေနရသည္။ We all fell about (laughing/with laughter) when he did his imitation of our English teacher. ❏ fall apart [ PHRV ] ၁။ တစ္စစီ ျပဳတ္ထြက္သည္။ My car is falling apart. ၂။ ၿပိဳကြဲသည္။ Their marriage finally fell apart. ❍ The deal fell apart when we failed to agree on a price. ❏ fall away [ PHRV ] ၁။ စြန္႔ခြာသည္။ His supporters fell away as his popularity declined. ၂။ ေလ်ာ့ပါး ေပ်ာက္ ကြယ္သည္။ The market for their products fell away to almost nothing. ❍ All our doubts fell away. ❏ fall back [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေနာက္ျပန္ဆုတ္သည္။ The enemy fell back as our troops advanced. ၂။ ေလ်ာ့သည္။ က်သည္။ Share prices fell back after brisk early trading. ❏ fall-back adj အေရးေပၚကိစၥအတြက္ အရန္။ establish a fall-back position. ❏ fall back on sb/sth [ PHRV ] အဆံုးတြင္ အားထားသည္။ We can always fall back on candles if the electricity fails. ❍ She's completely homeless—at least I have my parents to fall back on. ❏ fall behind (sb/sth) [ PHRV ] ေနာက္က်က်န္ရစ္သည္။ She soon fell behind the leaders. ❍ France has fallen behind (Germany) in coal production. ❏ fall behind with sth [ PHRV ] ေႂကြးတင္သည္။ Don't fall behind with the rent, or you’ll be evicted. ❍ I've fallen behind with my work again. ❏ fall down [ PHRV ] မျပည့္မီျဖစ္သည္။ မျဖစ္ေျမာက္။ Where the proposal falls down is in not taking enough account of the feelings of local people. ❏ the fallen n [pl] ( dated or fml ) က်ဆံုးရဲေဘာ္မ်ား။ ❏ fall for sb [ PHRV ] ( infml ) က်သည္။ They fell for each other instantly. ❏ fall for sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အႏွပ္ခံရသည္။ အလွည့္ခံ ရသည္။ The salesman said the car was in good condition, and I was foolish enough to fall for it. ❏ fall (sb) in [ PHRV ] တန္းစီသည္။ The sergeant ordered his men to fall in. ❏ falling star n = SHOOTING STAR ❏ fall in with sb/sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေပါင္းမိသည္။ He fell in with bad company. ၂။ ( Brit ) သေဘာတူလက္ခံသည္။ She fell in with my idea at once. ❏ fall into sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္ထဲ) ဝင္လာသည္။ They fell right into our trap. ၂။ ခြဲျခမ္းစိတ္ျဖာႏိုင္သည္။ ခြဲႏိုင္သည္။ My talk falls naturally into three parts. ❏ fall off [ PHRV ] နည္းသြားသည္။ က်သြားသည္။ Attendance at my lectures has fallen off considerably. ❍ It used to be my favourite restaurant but the standard of cooking has fallen off recently. ❏ fall-off n [sing] ~ ( in sth ) ထိုင္းျခင္း။ က်ဆင္းျခင္း။ a recent fall-off in sales. There has been a slight fall-off in attendance since last week. ❏ fall on/upon sb/sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ခုန္အုပ္သည္။ They fell on the retreating army and routed them. ❍ The children fell on the food and ate it greedily. ၂။ ေခါင္းေပၚက်သည္။ The full cost of the wedding fell on me. ❏ fall out [ PHRV ] ကြၽတ္ထြက္သည္။ ကြၽတ္သည္။ His hair is falling out. ❍ My tooth fell out. ❏ fall (sb) out [ PHRV ] တန္းျဖဳတ္သည္။ ❏ fall out (with sb) [ PHRV ] ရန္ျဖစ္သည္။ စကား မ်ားသည္။ သေဘာကြဲလြဲသည္။ They fell out with each other just before the wedding. ❏ fall out of sth [ PHRV ] ကုန္သြားသည္။ fall out of love/fashion. ❏ fall over sb/sth [ PHRV ] ခလုတ္တိုက္ လဲသည္။ I rushed for the door and fell over the dog in the hallway. ❏ fall over oneself to do sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အငမ္းမရ ျဖစ္သည္။ People were falling over themselves to be introduced to the star of the film. ❏ fall through [ PHRV ] ပ်က္ျပားသြားသည္။ Our plans fell through because of a sudden death in the family. ❏ fall to (doing sth) [ PHRV ] … ေနမိသည္။ She fell to brooding about what had happened to her. ❏ fall to sb (to do sth) [ PHRV ] ( fml ) ေခါင္းေပၚ က်သည္။ It fell to me to inform her of her son's death.

Examples

1. [fall off/through/out of etc] : Ann’s just fallen downstairs and hurt her back.
2. I keep falling off my bike.
3. [fall to your death] : A climber fell to his death today.
4. Snow began to quietly fall.
5. Bombs fell on the city throughout the night.
6. I slipped and almost fell down.
7. We heard the crash of falling trees.
8. [fall to the ground/floor] : He collapsed and fell to the ground.
9. [fall into/onto] : After work I just want to fall into bed and sleep.
10. The temperature has been falling steadily all day.
11. The programme was cancelled because of falling audience figures.
12. [fall by] : Industrial production has fallen by 10%.
13. [fall within/into] : Those items fall into the category of luxury goods.
14. [fall outside] : This question falls outside my area of expertise.
15. [fall asleep/ill] : Shortly before Christmas she fell ill.
16. [fall into] : I climbed into bed and fell into a deep sleep.
17. [fall into decay/disrepair/ruin/disuse] : The building gradually fell into decay.
18. The book fell open at a map of the city.
19. Christmas falls on a Saturday this year.
20. Divisions within the ruling party caused the government to fall.
21. [fall from power] : The General fell from power in 1955.
22. The city is expected to fall within days.
23. [fall to] : In the last election
24. the constituency fell to Labour.
25. [fall over/onto/to] : Her long black hair fell over her shoulders.
26. Here the land rises and falls in gentle hills.
27. His voice fell to a whisper.
28. In English
29. the stress in ‘Paris’ falls on the first syllable.