Tumble

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A fall, especially end over end.

   “I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.”

2. isim A disorderly heap.

   “When at last we stopped in a tumble of bodies on the grass, laughing, and in Dad's case, out of breath, we were like little kids (I mean 5 or 6! After all I am 12!) at the end of a playground session.”

3. isim An act of sexual intercourse.

   “Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?”

4. fiil To fall end over end; to roll over and over.

   “He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.”

5. fiil To throw headlong.

   “His hand went after his revolver almost that instant mine did. I was a second too quick for him, for my shot tumbled him from his mule just as his ball whistled harmlessly past by my head.”

6. fiil To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
7. fiil To drop rapidly.

   “Share prices tumbled after the revelation about the company's impending failure.”

8. fiil To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.
9. fiil To have sexual intercourse.
10. fiil To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
11. fiil To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.

    “to tumble a bed”

12. fiil To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.

    “Now it’s easy to purchase bitcoins on any number of mainstream markets and “tumble” them so that their point of purchase is obscured.”

13. fiil To comprehend; often in tumble to.

    “Speaking of this language, a costermonger said to me: "The Irish can't tumble to it anyhow; the Jews can tumble better, but we're their masters. Some of the young salesmen at Billingsgate understand us, — but only at Billingsgate; […]”

14. özel isim A village in Llannon community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5411).