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fallar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • award noun A prize or honour given for merit or achievement.
  • crash noun A violent collision, especially involving a vehicle.
  • glitch noun A small, usually temporary problem or fault, especially in a machine, computer, or software.
  • malfunction noun A failure to work correctly, usually referring to equipment or a system.
  • miss verb To fail to hit, catch, reach, or make contact with something.
  • rule noun An official regulation or guideline that governs behaviour or a process.

Senses

fallar is used for these senses in English:

  • award (transitive, legal) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.
  • break down (ergative, figuratively) To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
  • crash (computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.
  • let down (transitive, idiomatic) To disappoint; to betray or fail somebody.
  • miss (transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
  • miss (transitive) To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
  • rule (intransitive) To decide judicially.

award — full definition

  1. noun A prize or honour given for merit or achievement.
  2. verb To officially give someone a prize, sum of money, or other benefit as the result of a decision.

crash — full definition

  1. noun A violent collision, especially involving a vehicle.
  2. noun A sudden failure of a computer program or system.
  3. noun A sudden, sharp fall in the value of stocks, currency, or other assets.
  4. verb To collide violently, or (of a vehicle) to be involved in an accident.
  5. verb To stop working suddenly (of a computer or program).

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