| 单词 | free fall |
| 释义 | free fall (once / 25528 pages) n Free fall is when something falls only under gravity's force, the way a skydiver is in free fall until her parachute opens and slows her descent. Anything that plummets to the ground, pulled there by the force of gravity, is in free fall. Your little brother jumping from the high dive is in free fall until he hits the pool water. A figurative way to use free fall is to mean "declining sharply," as when reporters talk about the plummeting stock market being in free fall, for example. The term first appeared in 1919, describing parachutists and rockets. WORD FAMILYfree fall: free falls USAGE EXAMPLESWith their health in free fall, both needed urgent care. Washington Post(Dec 18, 2016) Rhule, who grew up in New York City and played at Penn State, will inherit a program in free fall. Wall Street Journal(Dec 06, 2016) I found myself slipping down the rock face, which became steeper and steeper until suddenly I was in free fall. The Guardian(Dec 02, 2016) 1n the ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field Hyper drop, fall a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity 2n a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity Syn|Hypo|Hyper dip, drop, fall correction a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases voltage dropa decrease in voltage along a conductor through which current is flowing decrease, decrement the amount by which something decreases |
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