(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(2) China’s stock market rout Shanghai stocks Chinese shares have tumbled in recent weeks against the backdrop of a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy .
(3) Spain's IBEX has tumbled more than 2%, despite its central bank predicting that the country's recession is over.
(4) The chemotactic receptor-transducer proteins of Escherichia coli are responsible for directing the swimming behavior of cells by signaling for either straight swimming or tumbling in response to chemostimuli.
(5) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
(6) The oil price tumbled by as much as $3.25 a barrel on Tuesday after the world's biggest commodity trader called the top of the market for crude and a range of other commodities – at least for the time being.
(7) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Install 2 kilowatt solar PV panels 0.4 Buy a new A++ refrigerator if yours is more than 4 years old, and only use a small-screen TV 0.1 Use LED or fluorescent lights where you currently have halogen lights installed 0.1 Buy an automated system to turn off appliances when not in use; get a meter that shows actual energy use and use it to monitor your household 0.1 Only use your washing machine and dishwasher when full to capacity and at lowest temperature 0.1 Never use the tumble dryer 0.1 Get rid of the freezer if you can, and replace your small appliances with "eco" varieties 0.1 Car (1.5 tonnes of CO 2 ) There is one car for every two people in the UK, and each one travels an average of about 9,000 miles a year.
(8) Addition of a micellar solution of oleoylphosphocholine had no influence on the motional freedom of the tryptophyl residue but approximately doubled the correlation time of the phenyl ring, indicating an increase of the effective volume of the tumbling particle due to lipid-protein interaction.
(9) Bring a brilliant idea to life and watch the money tumble in.
(10) Russia’s credit rating has been downgraded to junk status for the first time in a decade due to the collapsing oil price, the tumbling value of the rouble and sanctions imposed because of its intervention in Ukraine.
(11) Similarly, a functioning electron transport pathway was shown to be essential for the tumbling response of S. typhimurium and E. coli to intense light (290 to 530 nm).
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nigel Pearson has words with Crystal Palace’s James McArthur after their unfortunate tumble led to an exchange.
(13) ESR spectra obtained after covalent incorporation of SL-2N3-ATP into Ca2+-ATPase and removal of freely tumbling SL-2N3-ATP exhibited motionally constrained species indicative of distinct and possibly adjacent ATP-binding sites.
(14) The main symptom "incoordination" (ataxia, asynergy, paresis, paralysis) is used by us more precisely only in case of impairment of nervous system by neoplastic infiltrations and does not signify as possible symptoms of general physical weakness, for example faltering, staggering, tumbling or lameness.
(15) Having been on the pitch for only three minutes, Oscar was slipped through one on one by Eden Hazard and knocked the ball past Davis before tumbling to the ground.
(16) UK unemployment has tumbled to its lowest level since 2008, when the fall of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers brought the global economy to the brink of collapse.
(17) Then King Henrik is hit on the ensuing play by Dustin Brown, who had been hit by Marc Staal and went tumbling - all are OK.
(18) 6.39pm BST AstraZeneca shares tumble as investors vent their disappointment over Pfizer bid - closing summary AstraZeneca's site in Macclesfield, Cheshire, today.
(19) He feels the need to lift the mood partly because he is concerned that talk of a return to recession could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy as tumbling consumer confidence reduces demand, increases worklessness and lowers demand.
(20) From a comparison of the temperature dependence of the probe's tumbling rate in model aqueous systems and in the muscle we concluded that in the muscle the probe was undergoing fast exchange between sites of different mobility.
Tumbler
Definition:
(n.) One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
(n.) A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
(n.) A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
(n.) A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure.
(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
(n.) A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.
(n.) A kind of cart; a tumbrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) We pay €5 each and fall into the 7 Estrellas bar (Travesa Alexandre Herculano, opposite the meat market), where small tumblers of excellent wine from the cask are 30 cents a throw.
(2) Don was there first, nuzzling his tumbler, mulling on the quality of his creative.
(3) Now the fantasy becomes near-reality, as a replica of the 'Tumbler' Batmobile used in The Dark Knight movies goes on sale for $1m.
(4) Platelet concentrates made with an initial pH of 7.85 or 6.85 by addition of alkali or acid were stored at 22 degrees C on tumbler or horizontal agitators.
(5) We suggest that the etiology of diabetes has become analogous to the cylinder of a lock containing many tumblers.
(6) Similar to the way "tumblers" allow users to spend bitcoins without being traced, by mixing hundreds of bitcoins together in the same wallet before passing them on to merchants, it is trivial to exchange one bitcoin for another.
(7) 3.02am GMT Fey and Poehler are back, each with a tumbler of what looks like whiskey.
(8) The Weather Service Nuclear Support Office has analyzed the meteorological and radiological data collected for the following atmospheric nuclear tests: TRINITY; EASY of the Tumbler-Snapper series; ANNIE, NANCY, BADGER, SIMON, and HARRY of the Upshot-Knothole series; BEE and ZUCCHINI of the Teapot series; BOLTZMANN and SMOKY of the Plumbbob series; and SMALL BOY of the Dominic II series.
(9) Perhaps now is the time to reach for altogether plainer tableware and glasses, for Kaj Frank bowls at one end of the price range, but more likely to Duralex tumblers at the other as we face a future of, as it were, porridge and tap water rather than the fine wines and dainty dishes it's hard not to associate with Waterford and Wedgwood.
(10) Harding said newspapers had been undervalued for years, pointing out that when the Times was founded in the 18th century it had cost more than double a coffee or a tumblerful of gin.
(11) Lock cylinders of five manufacturers, employing tumblers of several different compositions, were examined.
(12) The hypotheses developing on that are often extremely suggestive and incorrect hypotheses on the first opportunity sometimes reappear like a "cork-tumbler".
(13) Why does a pack of plastic pint tumblers retailing for £2 appear in a promotional bin with economical-looking red-and-yellow labelling when it isn’t discounted at all?
(14) Microscopic examination of the tumblers of pin and disc tumbler lock cylinders may indicate whether an attempt has been made to pick the lock.
(15) With the tumbler rotator, there was no loss of platelets and antibody binding to GP Ib remained normal.
(16) Similar, but less striking changes occurred in acidified platelet concentrates stored on the tumbler rotator.
(17) The parlor tumbler is a breed of domestic pigeon which displays a hereditary movement disorder resulting in backward somersaulting upon attempting to fly.
(18) Each tumbler, e.g., environment, genetics, or cellular interactions, must be aligned before the key can be turned and an understanding of the etiologic process claimed.
(19) This form of purpura was undoubtedly due to self-mutilation by establishing of a vacuum over the skin produced by a tumbler from which the air had been partially aspirated.
(20) And the tumbler of whisky she sometimes slowly drained between 11am and the end of lunch must have helped.