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Tumbler vs Tumbling - What's the difference?

tumbler | tumbling |

As nouns the difference between tumbler and tumbling

is that tumbler is one who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat while tumbling is the act of something that tumbles.

As a verb tumbling is

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tumbler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
  • A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
  • A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
  • A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish his measure.
  • * 1919 ,
  • *:"You don't think it's too early?" said the Captain.
  • *:"You and your liver must decide that between you," I replied.
  • *:"I'm practically a teetotaller," he said, as he poured himself out a good half-tumbler of Canadian Club.
  • A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
  • A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
  • (obsolete) A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A kind of cart; a tumbrel.

    • Related terms

    * tumble

    See also

    * glass * pigeon

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns

    tumbling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that tumbles.
  • * (James Howell)
    • These so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government
  • * 1838 , Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
    • Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.