fall vs turn

fall

verb
  • To become. 

  • To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated. 

  • To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face. 

  • To come as if by dropping down. 

  • To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry. 

  • To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen. 

  • To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity. 

  • To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon). 

  • To be dropped or uttered carelessly. 

  • To be brought to the ground. 

  • To die, especially in battle or by disease. 

  • To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.). 

  • To hang down (under the influence of gravity). 

  • To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself. 

  • To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before. 

  • To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance. 

  • To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin. 

  • To come down, to drop or descend. 

noun
  • A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc. 

  • The action of a batsman being out. 

  • The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural). 

  • An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells. 

  • The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity. 

  • An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat. 

  • A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker. 

  • The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard 

  • A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction. 

  • A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss. 

  • Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed. 

  • The chasing of a hunted whale. 

  • A loss of greatness or status. 

  • That which falls or cascades. 

intj
  • The cry given when a whale is sighted, or harpooned. 

turn

verb
  • To become (begin to be). 

  • To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. 

  • To magically or divinely attack undead. 

  • To be nauseated; said of the stomach. 

  • To change the color of the leaves in the autumn. 

  • To sour or spoil; to go bad. 

  • To reach a certain age. 

  • To sicken; to nauseate. 

  • Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control. 

  • To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc. 

  • To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds. 

  • To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated. 

  • To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt. 

  • To complete. 

  • To change fundamentally; to metamorphose. 

  • To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc. 

  • To make (money); turn a profit. 

  • Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces. 

  • To navigate through a book or other printed material. 

  • To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation. 

  • To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle. 

  • Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself. 

  • To change one's direction of travel. 

  • Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces. 

  • To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa. 

  • To become giddy; said of the head or brain. 

  • To undergo the process of turning on a lathe. 

  • To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe. 

  • To hinge; to depend. 

noun
  • The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em. 

  • A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others. 

  • A change in temperament or circumstance. 

  • A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again. 

  • One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players. 

  • A single loop of a coil. 

  • Character; personality; nature. 

  • A short skit, act, or routine. 

  • A fit or a period of giddiness. 

  • A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement. 

  • A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight). 

  • A pass behind or through an object. 

  • An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control. 

  • A walk to and fro. 

  • A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule. 

  • The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices. 

  • A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice. 

  • A change of direction or orientation. 

  • A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation. 

  • The time required to complete a project. 

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