Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A strong, taut sheet, usually of canvas, attached with springs to a metal frame and used for gymnastic springing and tumbling.
Wiktionary
- n. A gymnastic and recreational device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs as anchors.
- n. programming Any of a variety of looping or jumping instructions in specific programming languages
- v. To jump as if on a trampoline
- v. programming To rewrite computer code to use trampolines
WordNet 3.0
- n. gymnastic apparatus consisting of a strong canvas sheet attached with springs to a metal frame; used for tumbling
Etymologies
- From Spanish trampolín and/or Italian trampolino. (Wiktionary)
- Spanish trampolín and Italian trampolino (Italian, from Spanish), from tràmpoli, stilts, of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The name trampoline comes from the Spanish "trampolin," or diving board.”
“It was while touring Mexico City that Mr. Nissen said he was inspired to name his invention "trampoline," after a Spanish word for diving board.”
The Wall Street Journal: Trampoline Inventor Saw His Sport Enshrined in Olympics
“However, this should not occur until the snow has left and the trampoline is ready for action.”
“The Chinese also have risen recently in trampoline, enough to push the country's gymnastics medal haul to double figures.”
“She finished first in trampoline at the Olympic Trials to earn a spot on the Olympic team.”
“Blanchard finished first in trampoline and synchronized trampoline at the 2008 Winter Classic.”
“No word yet on where this trampoline is located, but I hope the landowners remove it before the firearms season … bucks have enough hiding places as it is!”
“An innertube trampoline is not a mini motorcycle, and he damn well knew it.”
“Jennifer Parilla finished ninth in trampoline; Mary Sanders was ninth in rhythmic gymnastics.”
USATODAY.com - Crocker dunks record book to take weekly honor
“The 23-year-old from Newport Beach, Calif., is the first and only U.S. athlete to qualify for and compete in trampoline at the Olympics.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trampoline’.
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Fads
With bows of great respect to Connie Willis, author of "Bellwether" and other wonderful books.
Hula-Hoop, bungee-jumping, hair-bobbing, pogs, jitterbug, jogging, mesmerism, Ouija board, miniature golf, The Old Curiosity..., Harry Potter, line dancing and 271 more...
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
walking, bicycle, bus, train, motorcycle, airplane, car, truck, segway, limousine, roller coaster, wheelbarrow and 130 more...
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
hurdle, tempo, consortium, caption, mutual understanding, jury, radio, javelin, extra time, boxing, Lander, European and 521 more...
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Open List - Madeupical Pasta Varieties
Made up names for types of pastas, beginning with iPadini, initiated on the day of the launch of this Apple computer device.
Many of the terms herein are plays on words for pasta shape...iPadini, beercanetti, growtini, forgettoni, regretti, landscapellini, vermifugelini, vermifugeloni, Draculacapellini, fedexelini, fusilli lungfishi, butchatini and 116 more...
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Wordnik Spam Inquiries
We get a lot of spam emails at Wordnik that fit this pattern: "Mr Bob Wilson here and i will like to know if you do have X for sale". The words on this list represent a subset of such requested items.
burnisher, shaper vise, salt spreader, soil pulveriser, bible, flutes, baffles, crucifix cross, proofer, gazebo, real bubble wrap, roller tray and 206 more...
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RitaJKing's list
transparency
shimmer, fantastical, sansula, rapture, melancholy, obviated, parenthetically, apoplexy, indelible, pillory, demagogues, quark and 41 more...
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Best words in Beatles songs
kaleidoscope, plasticine, porters, tangerine, marmalade, cellophane, turnstile, marshmallow, lingers, slither, restless, limitless and 91 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Keeping Secrets
Words of 10 letters, all different, can be used for encrypting, pretty securely, such things as PINs and passwords. The fly in the ointment, for me, in keeping track of them is I've got to write '...
lumberjack, birthplace, whiskeybar, vanquished, metaphysic, precaution, quizmaster, dumbwaiter, thumbscrew, blacksmith, wholegrain, wanderlust and 105 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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Genericide
Trademarks that have lost their character as indicators of source to become a general term for a product or service.
cellophane, aspirin, butterscotch, escalator, heroin, kerosene, thermos, yo-yo, zipper, dry ice, email, freeware and 106 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Painterly Strokes
a collection of words that have been my favorites for a long time.
fluorescent, cerulean, autumnal, peculiarity, particular, pantechnicon, wax, serendipity, trampoline, plastic, meandering, brazen and 13 more...
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trademarks
kleenex, xerox, hoover, google, styrofoam, dumpster, frisbee, band-aid, klaxon, teflon, nalgene, hula-hoop and 15 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for trampoline.
yarb Gives a frog with eight times its ordinary jumping ability. May 8, 2009
bilby Alright, a frog on a kangaroo on a pogo stick on a trampoline. May 8, 2009
seanahan I would think they would double the frog's jumping ability. May 8, 2009
gangerh If you put a frog on a trampoline do they cancel each other out? May 7, 2009