FALL OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fall out mean? 

• FALL OUT (verb)
  The verb FALL OUT has 5 senses:

1. have a breach in relations

2. come as a logical consequence; follow logically

3. come off

4. leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation

5. come to pass

  Familiarity information: FALL OUT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALL OUT (verb)

Sense 1

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Come as a logical consequence; follow logically

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

fall out; follow

Context example:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Come off

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come out; fall 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

Sense 4

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

Sense 5

Meaning:

Come to pass

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place

Context example:

Nothing occurred that seemed important

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fall out"):

recur; repeat (happen or occur again)

contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)

turn out (prove to be in the result or end)

fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)

break (happen or take place)

chance (be the case by chance)

backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)

coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)

bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)

bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)

happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)

come around; roll around (happen regularly)

come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)

break; develop; recrudesce (happen)

develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)

anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)

fall (occur at a specified time or place)

come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)

go; proceed (follow a certain course)

supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)

give (occur)

transpire (come about, happen, or occur)

intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)

result (come about or follow as a consequence)

arise; come up (result or issue)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

This event will give you relief from the incident of last month and any continued fall out this month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Fill your pocket full of peas, and make a small hole in the pocket, and then if you are carried away again, they will fall out and leave a track in the streets.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Nenny, nenny, cried his comrade, laying his hand upon his knee; we have known each other over long to fall out, Oliver, like two raw pages at their first epreuves.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There, Peggotty, said my mother, changing her tone, don't let us fall out with one another, for I couldn't bear it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was as if he had seen the sun fall out of the sky, or had seen worshipped purity polluted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If his back was broke, he couldn't beat his head; and if his face was like that before the fall out of bed, there would be marks of it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"And here's where beauty and utility fall out," was her reply.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Most hairs grow for up to six years and then fall out.

(Hair Problems, NIH)

“Come, come, Tregellis, I was his friend as well as you,” said he. “But we cannot alter the facts, and it is rather late in the day for us to fall out over them. Your invitation holds good for Friday night?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I have sent him a letter that I'll trouble him to attend to, or he and I will fall out, I can tell him!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)