English Dictionary

tumble

/ˈtʌmbl̩/

verb

(intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over. / (intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings. / (intransitive) To drop rapidly.

She lost her balance and began to tumble down the hill.

意味（1）

(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.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To drop rapidly.

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

意味（4）

(transitive) To smoothe and polish, e.g., gemstones or pebbles, by means of a rotating tumbler.

意味（5）

(intransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.

Whether he ever thought of it at all, might be a question ; but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there, about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and not sooner.

意味（7）

To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.

to tumble a bed

意味（8）

(cryptocurrencies) 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.

意味（9）

(obsolete, UK, slang) 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; […]