tumbler

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈtʌmblɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body. archaic
    — […] the tricks of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines […]
  2. 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.
  3. A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.
  4. 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.
  5. 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 their measure.
    — I poured out some whisky into a tumbler, and gave it to him.
  6. A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
  7. A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
  8. Something that causes something else to tumble.
  9. A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits. obsolete
  10. A kind of cart; a tumbril. Scotland,UK,dialectal,obsolete
  11. The pupa of a mosquito.
  12. One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
  13. A porpoise. obsolete
  14. A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering.
    — The Department of Justice said it has arrested a Russian-Swedish national who allegedly operated a long-running cryptocurrency laundering site. According to a news release from the DOJ, Roman Sterlingov ran Bitcoin Fog, a cryptocurrency tumbler or “mixer”— which hides a cryptocurrency’s source by mixing it with other funds.

词形变化

tumblers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
compost tumbler rebound tumbler rebound-tumbler tumbler dryer tumblerful tumblerlike Tumbler Ridge tumbler tank tumbler-washer
相关词
tumble glass highball pigeon

词源

Etymology tree
English tumble
English -er
English tumbler
From tumble + -er.
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