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tumbling
(encz) | tumbling,převracení Jaroslav Šedivý |
Tumbling
(gcide) | Tumble \Tum"ble\ (t[u^]m"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tumbled
(t[u^]m"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Tumbling (t[u^]m"bl[i^]ng).]
[OE. tumblen, AS. tumbian to turn heels over head, to dance
violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan.
tumle, Icel. tumba; and cf. G. taumeln to reel, to stagger.]
1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about;
as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses.
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2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be
precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
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He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater
blow than he who slides from a molehill. --South.
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3. To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the
body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. --Rowe.
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To tumble home (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of
a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp.
in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided.
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Tumbling
(gcide) | Tumbling \Tum"bling\,
a. & vb. n. from Tumble, v.
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Tumbling barrel. Same as Rumble, n., 4.
Tumbling bay, an overfall, or weir, in a canal.
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tumbling
(wn) | tumbling
n 1: the gymnastic moves of an acrobat [syn: acrobatics,
tumbling] |
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stumbling block
(mass) | stumbling block
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stumbling
(encz) | stumbling,klopýtající adj: Zdeněk Brož |
stumbling block
(encz) | stumbling block,kámen úrazu Zdeněk Brožstumbling block,překážka n: Zdeněk Brož |
stumblingly
(encz) | stumblingly, |
tumbling
(encz) | tumbling,převracení Jaroslav Šedivý |
Stumbling
(gcide) | Stumble \Stum"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stumbled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Stumbling.] [OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of a word
akin to E. stammer. See Stammer.]
1. To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs;
to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall;
to stagger because of a false step.
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There stumble steeds strong and down go all.
--Chaucer.
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The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at
what they stumble. --Prov. iv.
19.
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2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
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He stumbled up the dark avenue. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
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He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and
there is none occasion og stumbling in him. --1 John
ii. 10.
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4. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without
design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or
against.
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Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a
bath. --Dryden.
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Forth as she waddled in the brake,
A gray goose stumbled on a snake. --C. Smart.
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Stumbling-block
(gcide) | Stumbling-block \Stum"bling-block`\, n.
Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error.
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We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a
stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness. --1
Cor. i. 23.
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Stumblingly
(gcide) | Stumblingly \Stum"bling*ly\, adv.
In a stumbling manner.
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Stumbling-stone
(gcide) | Stumbling-stone \Stum"bling-stone`\, n.
A stumbling-block.
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This stumbling-stone we hope to take away. --T. Burnet.
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Tumbling barrel
(gcide) | Tumbling \Tum"bling\,
a. & vb. n. from Tumble, v.
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Tumbling barrel. Same as Rumble, n., 4.
Tumbling bay, an overfall, or weir, in a canal.
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Tumbling bay
(gcide) | Tumbling \Tum"bling\,
a. & vb. n. from Tumble, v.
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Tumbling barrel. Same as Rumble, n., 4.
Tumbling bay, an overfall, or weir, in a canal.
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stumbling block
(wn) | stumbling block
n 1: any obstacle or impediment |
tumbling
(wn) | tumbling
n 1: the gymnastic moves of an acrobat [syn: acrobatics,
tumbling] |
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