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  • 21Tumble — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Tumble (dynamique des fluides), type d injection directe dans les moteurs Tumble, un court métrage réalisé par Neil LaBute en 2000 Tumble, un jeu vidéo… …

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  • 22tumble — Synonyms and related words: alight upon, apprehend, arsy varsiness, ball up, bite the dust, blow down, blow over, blunder, blunder upon, blur, blur distinctions, bollix up, bow, bowl down, bowl over, break up, breakdown, bring down, bulldog, bump …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 23tumble — n 1. an act of sexual intercourse. This fairly inoffensive expression is often elaborated to tumble in the hay . 2. British an attempt, try. In working class usage give it a tumble is the equiv alent of give it a whirl (the Australian expression… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 24tumble —    1. to copulate with    Of either sex, from the alacrity of the move into the prone position:     Quoth she, before you tumbled me,    You promised me to wed. (Shakespeare, Hamlet)    Modern use can be intransitive, or, as a noun, of a single… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 25tumble — 1 verb (I) 1 (always + adv/prep) to fall quickly and suddenly downwards, especially with a rolling movement (+ over/backwards/down): She lost her balance and tumbled backwards. 2 (always + adv/prep) to move in an uncontrolled way (+ into/through) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 26tumble to — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms tumble to : present tense I/you/we/they tumble to he/she/it tumbles to present participle tumbling to past tense tumbled to past participle tumbled to informal tumble to something to realize or understand… …

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  • 27tumble — I. verb (tumbled; tumbling) Etymology: Middle English, frequentative of tumben to dance, from Old English tumbian; akin to Old High German tūmōn to reel Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. a. to fall suddenly and helplessly b. to suffer a… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 28Tumble — Original name in latin Tumble Name in other language Tumble, y Tymbl State code GB Continent/City Europe/London longitude 51.78361 latitude 4.10972 altitude 197 Population 4040 Date 2012 01 20 …

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  • 29tumble — [13] Tumble was borrowed from Middle Low German tummelen, which has other relatives in modern German tummeln ‘bustle, hurry’ and taumeln ‘reel, stagger’. All were formed from a base that also found its way into the Romance languages, producing… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 30tumble — verb 1》 fall suddenly, clumsily, or headlong.     ↘perform acrobatic feats, typically handsprings and somersaults. 2》 decrease rapidly in amount or value. 3》 dry in a tumble dryer. 4》 rumple; disarrange. 5》 (tumble to) informal come to… …

    English new terms dictionary