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  • 41tumble drier — noun a clothes dryer that spins wet clothes inside a cylinder with heated air • Syn: ↑tumble dryer • Hypernyms: ↑clothes dryer, ↑clothes drier * * * tumble dryer or tumble drier, a dryer in which hot air is blown through the clothes while they… …

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  • 42tumble car — noun see tumble cart * * * tumble car or tumble cart noun A vehicle with wheels and axle in one piece • • • Main Entry: ↑tumble …

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  • 43tumble-dry — /tum beuhl druy /, v.t. tumble dried, tumble drying. to dry (washing) in a clothes drier in which articles are rotated vertically through heated air. [1965 70] * * * tumˈble dry transitive verb and intransitive verb To dry (clothes, etc) in a… …

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  • 44Tumble — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Tumble (dynamique des fluides), type d injection directe dans les moteurs Tumble, un court métrage réalisé par Neil LaBute en 2000 Tumble, un jeu vidéo… …

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  • 45tumble — Synonyms and related words: alight upon, apprehend, arsy varsiness, ball up, bite the dust, blow down, blow over, blunder, blunder upon, blur, blur distinctions, bollix up, bow, bowl down, bowl over, break up, breakdown, bring down, bulldog, bump …

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  • 46tumble — n 1. an act of sexual intercourse. This fairly inoffensive expression is often elaborated to tumble in the hay . 2. British an attempt, try. In working class usage give it a tumble is the equiv alent of give it a whirl (the Australian expression… …

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  • 47tumble —    1. to copulate with    Of either sex, from the alacrity of the move into the prone position:     Quoth she, before you tumbled me,    You promised me to wed. (Shakespeare, Hamlet)    Modern use can be intransitive, or, as a noun, of a single… …

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  • 48tumble — 1 verb (I) 1 (always + adv/prep) to fall quickly and suddenly downwards, especially with a rolling movement (+ over/backwards/down): She lost her balance and tumbled backwards. 2 (always + adv/prep) to move in an uncontrolled way (+ into/through) …

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  • 49tumble dryer — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms tumble dryer : singular tumble dryer plural tumble dryers British a machine used for drying clothes after they have been washed …

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  • 50tumble to — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms tumble to : present tense I/you/we/they tumble to he/she/it tumbles to present participle tumbling to past tense tumbled to past participle tumbled to informal tumble to something to realize or understand… …

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