different between falling vs tumble
falling
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f??l??/
- (US) enPR: fäl??ng, IPA(key): /?f?l??/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /?f?l??/
- Rhymes: -??l??
Verb
falling
- present participle of fall
Adjective
falling (not comparable)
- That falls or fall.
- a falling leaf
- the falling prices of luxury goods
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
falling (usually uncountable, plural fallings)
- gerund of fall
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
Derived terms
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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
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- what tumble means
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