English Dictionary

tumble

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtʌmbl̩/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 くだけた表現 イギリス英語 廃用 俗語

(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.

日本語の意味

（自動詞）体が転がるように落ちる、または、転がり落ちる。 / （自動詞）体操の技、例えば宙返り、転がり、逆立ちなどを行う。 / （自動詞）急激に落下する、または急降下する。

The toddler began to tumble down the grassy slope, laughing the whole time.

幼児は芝生の斜面を転げ落ち始め、ずっと笑っていた。

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; […]

tumbles （ present singular third-person ）

tumbling （ participle present ）

tumbled （ participle past ）

tumbled （ past ）