Tumble

['tʌmb(ə)l] or ['tʌmbl]

Definition

(noun.) an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end.

(verb.) do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully.

(verb.) suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat.

(verb.) put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying; 'Wash in warm water and tumble dry'.

(verb.) fall suddenly and sharply; 'Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency'.

(verb.) throw together in a confused mass; 'They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern'.

(verb.) roll over and over, back and forth.

(verb.) fall down, as if collapsing; 'The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it'.

Typist: Remington--From WordNet

Definition

(v. i.) To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

(v. i.) To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.

(v. i.) To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.

(v. t.) To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.

(v. t.) To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.

(n.) Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.

Checked by Barry

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. [1]. Roll, toss, heave, pitch about.[2]. Fall, be precipitated, fall over.

v. a. [1]. Precipitate, throw headlong.[2]. Disturb, derange, rumple, put in disorder.

Edited by Amber

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Fall, topple, precipitate, derange, rumple,[See DISCIPLINE]

Editor: Quentin

Definition

v.i. to fall: to come down suddenly and violently: to roll: to twist the body as a mountebank: to fall rapidly as prices: to go hastily: (slang) to understand twig.—v.t. to throw headlong: to turn over: to throw about while examining: to disorder rumple.—n. act of tumbling: a fall: a rolling over a somersault: confusion.—ns. Tum′ble-bug one of several kinds of scarab鎜id beetles which roll up balls of dung to protect their eggs; Tum′ble-car a one-horse car.—adj. Tum′ble-down dilapidated.—ns. Tum′bler one who tumbles: one who plays any of the feats or tricks of the acrobat or contortionist: a large drinking-glass so called because formerly having a pointed base it could not be set down without tumbling: a kind of domestic pigeon so called from its tumbling on the wing: a kind of greyhound: a kind of spring-latch in a lock preventing the bolt being shot in either direction: a piece attached to the hammer of a firearm lock receiving the thrust of the mainspring and forcing the hammer forward so as to strike and explode the charge: a porpoise: one of a gang of London street ruffians early in the 18th century whose favourite frolic was to set women on their heads: a tumbril: one of a set of levers from which hang the heddles in some looms; Tum′blerful as much as will fill a tumbler; Tum′bler-stand a tray for tumblers as in connection with a soda-water fountain; Tum′bler-tank in plumbing a flush-tank in which water gathers in one chamber before being tilted over so as to discharge its contents; Tum′bler-wash′er a revolving stand fitted with projecting pipes on which tumblers are hung to be washed automatically; Tum′ble-weed a name given to several plants whose globular flowering heads are detached in autumn and rolled about scattering their seed; Tum′bling the act of falling.—adj. Tum′bly uneven.—Tumble in or home to incline in above the extreme breadth of a ship's sides: to fit as a piece of timber into other work: to go to bed; Tumble over to toss about carelessly to upset: to fall over; Tumble to (slang) to comprehend; Tumble up to get out of bed: to throw into confusion.

Editor: Rosanne