Tumbling vs Falling - What's the difference?
tumbling | falling |
The act of something that tumbles.
* (James Howell)
* 1838 , Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
That falls or fall.
The action of the verb to fall .
* (Jeremy Taylor)
As verbs the difference between tumbling and falling
is that tumbling is while falling is .As nouns the difference between tumbling and falling
is that tumbling is the act of something that tumbles while falling is the action of the verb to fall .As an adjective falling is
that falls or fall.tumbling
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- These so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government
- 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.
falling
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- falling leaves
- falling prices
Derived terms
* deviation of a falling body * downfalling * everfalling * falling action * falling band, falling-band * falling collar * falling diphthong * falling-disease * falling-door * falling dunes * falling-evil * falling factorial * falling film evaporator * falling front or back * falling-gate * falling-hinge * falling houses * falling-ill * falling-in * falling knife * falling leaf * falling limb * falling-mold, falling-mould * falling palate * falling rhythm * falling-rising * falling ruff * falling scream * falling sequential product * falling sickness, falling-sickness * falling-sluice * falling sphere * falling star, falling-star * falling stone * falling tide * falling tone * falling weather, falling-weather * falling weight deflectometer * in-falling, infalling * rising-falling * tear-falling * wall-fallingNoun
(en-noun)- Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.