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# tumbler

«tumbler» in Mova's school dictionary: **a drinking glass with straight sides and no stem or handle** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (tumblers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tumbler is a drinking glass with straight sides and no stem or handle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tumbler/#m1)

2) A tumbler is an acrobat who turns over and over in a show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tumbler/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a drinking glass in a story or a performer who turns somersaults; in lessons it names an everyday glass or a circus act

### examples

- She poured the juice into a tumbler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tumbler/#x1)
- Who has been drinking out of my little tumbler? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tumbler/#x2)
- The tumbler flipped three times in the air and landed on his feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tumbler/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tumbler» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tumbler/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.