Dictionary entry details
• FALL OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Have a breach in relations
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
We fell out over a trivial question
Hypernyms (to "fall out" is one way to...):
altercate; argufy; dispute; quarrel; scrap (have a disagreement over something)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Come as a logical consequence; follow logically
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
fall out; follow
Context examples:
It follows that your assertion is false / the theorem falls out nicely
Hypernyms (to "fall out" is one way to...):
ensue; result (issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
It ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Come off
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
fall out; come out
Context example:
His hair and teeth fell out
Hypernyms (to "fall out" is one way to...):
come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue (come out of)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
the soldiers fell out
Hypernyms (to "fall out" is one way to...):
exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Come to pass
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
come about; take place; hap; happen; occur; go on; pass off; fall out; pass
Context examples:
What is happening? / The meeting took place off without an incidence / Nothing occurred that seemed important
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fall out"):
break; develop; recrudesce (happen)
come around; roll around (happen regularly)
happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)
bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)
bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)
coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)
backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)
chance (be the case by chance)
break (happen or take place)
fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)
turn out (prove to be in the result or end)
come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)
recur; repeat (happen or occur again)
develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)
arise; come up (result or issue)
intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)
transpire (come about, happen, or occur)
give (occur)
operate (happen)
supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)
go; proceed (follow a certain course)
come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)
fall (occur at a specified time or place)
anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)
contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE
