different between dropping vs tumble
dropping
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dr?p??ng, IPA(key): /?d??p??/
- (General American) enPR: dr?p??ng, IPA(key): /?d??p??/
- Rhymes: -?p??
- Hyphenation: drop?ping
Verb
dropping
- present participle of drop
Noun
dropping (plural droppings)
- Something dropped. [14th C.]
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (usually in the plural) A piece of animal excrement; dung. [late 16th C.]
- a rabbit dropping
- The act of something that drops or falls.
Translations
See also
- spoor
dropping From the web:
- what dropping the mic means
- what droppings look like mice
- what droppings are these
- what's dropping on supreme this week
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- what's dropping supreme
- what's dropping the soap
- what dropping the clutch
tumble
English
Etymology
From Middle English tumblen (“to fall over and over again, tumble”), frequentative of Middle English tumben (“to fall, leap, dance”), from Old English tumbian, from Proto-Germanic *t?m?n? (“to turn, rotate”). Cognate with Middle Dutch tumelen (whence Dutch tuimelen); Middle Low German tumelen, tummelen; and German taumeln.
Pronunciation
- enPR: t?m?b?l, IPA(key): /?t?mbl?/
- Rhymes: -?mb?l
- Hyphenation: tum?ble
Noun
tumble (plural tumbles)
- A fall, especially end over end.
- I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
- A disorderly heap.
- 2008, David Joutras, A Ghost in the World (page 55)
- 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.
- 2008, David Joutras, A Ghost in the World (page 55)
- (informal) An act of sexual intercourse.
- 1940, John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth
- Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
- 1940, John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
tumble (third-person singular simple present tumbles, present participle tumbling, simple past and past participle tumbled)
- (intransitive) 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.
- 1907, Robert W. Chambers, The Younger Set
- “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
- (intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
- (intransitive) To drop rapidly.
- (transitive) To smoothe and polish, e.g., gemstones or pebbles, by means of a rotating tumbler.
- (intransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
- To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
- (cryptocurrencies) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
- (obsolete, Britain, slang) To comprehend; often in tumble to.
- 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
- 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; […]
- 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
Synonyms
- (to have sexual intercourse): bump uglies, have sex, roll around; see also Thesaurus:copulate
- (to make disorderly): mess up, touse
Derived terms
- tumble on
- tumble to
Translations
tumble From the web:
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- what tumble dry means
- what tumblers can you sublimate on
- what tumblers to use for sublimation
- what tumbler
- what tumblers are as good as yeti
- what tumblers are made in usa
- what tumble means
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