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Definition: TUMP |
TUMPNoun1. A little hillock; a knoll. Transitive verb1. To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed. 2. To form a mass of earth or a hillock about; as, to tump teasel. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Height | Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TUMP |
| English words defined with "TUMP": Tumped, Tumping. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | No. If Ffynnon Garw has to be a thousand feet, then I say let it be a thousand feet! Put 20 feet, that's all we need, a 20-foot tump and we have our mountain! (The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain; writing credit: Ivor Monger; Christopher Monger) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "TUMP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TUMP" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TUMP": tump-line. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tump | 8 |
line tump | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TUMP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kodër (fell, height, hill, knoll, monticule, rise, tumulus, whale-back), gërmoj përreth. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aanaarden (bank up, earth, earth up, hill, hill up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ס×"ן (anvil, block, bolt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | halom (accumulation, batch, clamp, clump, congeries, conglomerate, cop, dump, heap, hillock, mass, mound, Peck, pile, stack), fejtrágyázást végez. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umptay monte de terra, drenar (bleed, ditch, drain, tap), disparate (absurdity, balderdash, blather, blether, bloomer, bosh, bull, bunk, disparate, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlestick, flapdoodle, flummery, foolery, foolishness, fribble, fudge, guff, gup, hot, howler, moonshine, mush, nonsense, piffle, punk, simplicity, skittle, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, twaddle, unreason, unwisdom). (various references) холмик (hillock, hummock, knob, kopje, monticule), окапывать (entrench). (various references) uzvišenje (loftiness, rise). (various references) twmpath (bush, hillock), poncyn (bank, hillock), ponc (bank, hillock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TUMP": tumped, tumping, tumpline, tumplines, tumps. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "TUMP": metump, stump. (additional references) | |
Words containing "TUMP": metumps, stumpage, stumpages, stumped, stumper, stumpers, stumpier, stumpiest, stumping, stumps, stumpy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "m-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: mut, put, tup, ump. | |
-2 letters: mu, um, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: stump, thump, trump, tumps. | |
+2 letters: impute, metump, septum, sputum, stumps, stumpy, thumps, trumps, tumped, upmost, uptime. | |
+3 letters: amputee, bethump, compute, crumpet, impetus, imputed, imputer, imputes, matchup, metumps, optimum, outjump, pantoum, permute, pinetum, plumate, plummet, pomatum, protium, putamen, septums, stumped, stumper, sumpter, tapetum, tempura, thumped, thumper, triumph, trumped, trumpet, tumping, umpteen, unkempt, uptempo, uptimes, utopism. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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