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Definition: Tumbler |
TumblerNoun1. A gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc. 2. A glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom. 3. A movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown. 4. Pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tumbler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Chemical Industry | A clothes-drying device consisting of a revolving cage in which hot air is agitated by fan action. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A frictionally driven, self-weighted, smooth, wooden or metal roller, which rests on the material supported by the carrier. This is used on some worsted drawing boxes and spinning frames to control the fibres during drafting. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A projecting piece on a revolving shaft or rockshaft for actuating another piece. In dredges, both an upper and a lower tumbler support the bucket line. (references) |
Occupations | Entertains audience by performing difficult and spectacular feats, such as leaping, tumbling, and balancing, alone or as member of team. Originates act or adapts stock presentations. May use equipment, such as chairs and teeter board. May juggle various articles [JUGGLER (amuse. & rec.)]. May perform feats requiring bodily contortions and be designated Contortionist (amuse. & rec.). (references) |
| Tends tumbling machine that deburrs, smooths, and burnishes watch parts: Dumps specified abrasive powder, stones, or metal balls, in machine. Starts machine that cleans and burnishes parts. Rinses tumbled parts and dips them into oil to prevent rusting. Places parts in heated centrifuge to dry. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | TUMBLER. A cart; also a sharper employed to draw in pigeons to game; likewise a posture-master, or rope-dancer. To shove the tumbler, or perhaps tumbril; to-be whipt at the cart's tail. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: TumblerSynonyms: roller (n), tumbler pigeon (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: tilter (mechanical engineering, transportation). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Humorist | Buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown; wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley; motley fool; pantaloon, gypsy; jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy; wiseacre, wise guy, smartass; fool. |
Receptacle | Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen. |
The Drama | Mountebank, Jack Pudding; tumbler, posture master, acrobat; contortionist; ballet dancer, ballet girl; chorus singer; coryphee danseuse. |
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 | Dice; shaker; tumbler; Yatzee. |
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Charles Dickens | Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | If you hold a stick, six feet long, with its ends in a tumbler of water, and wait long enough, you must eventually be immersed. |
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| "Tumbler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tumbler" is used about 136 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% | 136 | 27,260 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tumbler": grog tumbler ♦ lever tumbler ♦ tumbler cant ♦ tumbler gear ♦ tumbler gear and cone ♦ tumbler gear frame ♦ tumbler pigeon ♦ tumbler switch. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "tumbler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tambur (drum), safë, kupë (beaker, canakin, canikin, cannikin, canonry, canopy, cap, chalice, cornet, cup, cupping glass, goblet, heart, jorum, Mazer, mug, patella, plate, rummer, torus, winebowl), gotë (beaker, cup, glass, glassful, teacup), akrobat (acrobat, balancer, distortionist, equilibrist, rope dancer, rope walker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كوب (cup, glass), كأس (calyx, chalice, cup, drinking glass, epicalyx, glass, goblet, trophy), قدح (dispraise, glass, goblet, invective, libel, percuss, slander, slur, snap, vituperate, vituperation), المجففة, الطبل الدوار, الدمية المتمايلة, ريشة القفل (talon), بهلوان (acrobat, aerialist, clown, clowning, contortionist, histrion, ropewalker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | реверсивен механизъм, резе на брава, чаша без дръжка и без столче, гимнастик (gymnast), обръщач, запънка на брава, акробат (acrobat, contortionist, tightrope-dancer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 翻转者 (tumblers), 扳不'' (roly-poly), 不'翁 (roly-poly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pohárek, akrobat (acrobat, distortionist), èíška. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tumblerafbryder (tumbler switch), tumbler (tumbling barrel), tromle (barrel *, bobbin, coiling drum *, cylinder, drum, hoisting reel, lifter, reel, ring wheel, rope barrel *, rope drum *, section wheel, segment, spool, to barrel polish, tumble, tumbling barrel, winding-reel), tipvogn (cradle car, dump body, dump car, dump cradle, dump truck, dumper, dumper car, dumping truck, freight car US, off highway truck, self propelled truckloader, small wagon, tilter, tilting trailer, tip truck, tipper, tipping lorry, tipping trailer, tipping wagon, tip-wagon, tub), tippespand (dump cradle, tilter, tipper), vippekontakt (toggle switch, tumbler switch), hurtigtørrer, baeger (bowl, goblet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tussentoprol, tuimelschakelaar (weighing machine), poetstrommel (tumbling barrel), kipwagen (bin wagon, cradle car, dump car, dump cradle, dump truck, dumper, dumper car, rear tipper, tilter, tipper, tipping wagon, vehicle with tipping body), beker (chalice, goblet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | معلق زن , لیوان (Glass, Mug), بازیگرشیرین کار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kippilaite (dump cradle, tilt, tilter, tilting arrangement, tilting mechanism, tipper), kiillotusrumpu (tumbling barrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gobelet, culbuteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Becher (beaker, beakers, chalice, cup, goblet, jug, mug, noggin, tub, tumblers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κύπελλο (beaker, chalice, cup, goblet, mug, stoup, trophy), καταπίπτων (cavy), καθαρισμός με το βαρέλι (tumbling barrel), ραγοδιακόπτης (tumbler switch), βαριδάκι, μοχλός κίνησης βαλβίδων (dump cradle, tilter, tipper), πιεστικό κυλινδράκι, ποτήριο (glass), ποτήρι (glass), ζύγωθρο βαλβίδων (dump cradle, tilter, tipper), ακροβάτησ (acrobat, aerialist, contortionist), τύμπανο καθαρισμού (bailing drum, sand drum, sand reel, tumbling barrel), διακόπτης τούμπλερ (tumbler switch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לולין (acrobat, aerialist), כוס (cup, glass, goblet, lot, portion, vessel), חום תקום. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | akrobata (acrobat, equilibrist, vaulter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tumero, tumbler, saltimbanco (acrobat), interruttore oscillante (tumbler switch), essiccatoio a tamburo, bicchiere senza stelo, bicchiere (glass, goblet), acrobata (acrobat, balancer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 曲芸師 (acrobat), 不'翁 (self-righting toy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おきあがり"ぼし (self-righting doll, self-righting toy), きょく'いし (acrobat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 공이치기용수 (tumblers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ymmyltagh (wallower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umblertay tonel de polidura (tumbling barrel), teimoso (ambivalent, balky, die-hard, dogged, hard-mouthed, headstrong, mulish, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, self-willed, stiff-necked, strongwilled, stubborn, tough, uncompromising, unmanageable, unwilling, wayward, wilful, willful, wrong-headed), tambor que retém areias (tumbling barrel), tambor desassoreador (tumbling barrel), tranqueta (dog), interruptor basculante (tumbler switch), agitador (agitator, beater, disturber), barril de polidura (tumbling barrel), barril de polimento (tumbling barrel), cilindro de pressão, copo (cup, glass, goblet), copo de vidro, acrobata saltador, gatilho de espingarda, pombo de cambalhota, rolo de pressão, solaina, gancheta de fechadura. (various references) stacanã (tankard), pahar mare (rummer), pahar fãrã picior, cupã (beaker, bowl, cup, goblet, heart, hearts, ladle, pot, trophy), acrobat (acrobat, distortionist). (various references) тумблер. (various references) tambler, prekidač (breaker, chopper switch, cutout, interrupter, plug-switch, switch, switch plug), prebacivač (shipper), golub prevrtač, gimnastičar (gymnast). (various references) vaso (beaker, glass, noggin, vase, vessel). (various references) dricksglas (glass). (various references) tetik düzeni, taklacı güvercin, taklacı, su bardağı (water glass), perendeci, hacıyatmaz, büyük bardak (rummer, schooner, Stein, stoup). (various references) іванець-киванець, акробат (acrobat, balancer, contortionist, distortionist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tumbler": tumblerful, tumblerfuls, tumblers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tumbler": stumbler. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tumbler": stumblers. (additional references) | |
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"Tumbler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bumbler, mumbler, tamble, timble, timbler, tomber, tubler, tubmle, tumblet, tumler, tummle, tummler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tumbler" (pronounced tu"mbler) |
| 4 | -m b l er | Ambler, assembler, gambler, rambler, temblor. |
| 3 | -b l er | babbler, cobbler, scribbler, warbler. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tumbrel. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-m-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: butler, lumber, rumble, tumble. | |
-2 letters: bluer, bluet, blume, blurt, brume, brute, buret, butle, lemur, muter, rebut, ruble, tuber, umbel, umber. | |
-3 letters: belt, berm, blet, blue, blur, brut, burl, bute, lube, lure, lute, melt, merl, mule, mure, mute, rube, rule, term, true, tube, tule. | |
-4 letters: bel, bet, bum, bur, but, elm, emu, let, leu, lum. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-m-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: stumbler, tumblers, tumbrels. | |
+2 letters: stumblers. | |
+3 letters: buttermilk, crumbliest, muliebrity, permutable, tumblerful. | |
+4 letters: buttermilks, microtubule, multibarrel, multimember, perambulate, rambouillet, subterminal, troublesome, tumblerfuls. | |
+5 letters: ambulatories, blabbermouth, hypermutable, microtubules, muliebrities, multiproblem, perambulated, perambulates, perambulator, rambouillets, surmountable, transmutable, troublemaker, unmarketable. | |
| 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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