slump

Senso (Inglese)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
2. (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
3. (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
4. (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
5. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
6. (slang, transitive) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.

Noun

1. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
2. (broadly, slang) A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
3. A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
4. A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
5. (broadly) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
6. (UK, dialectal) A boggy place.
7. (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
8. (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
9. A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.

Concetti

crollare

crollo

crisi

crollo dei prezzi

gran quantità

depressione

slump

rovescio di fortuna

fallimento

abbandonarsi

abbassarsi

crac

ribasso

sinonimi

collapse

depression

fall

recession

decline

sink

sag

tumble

crash

drop

slouch

fall off

slumping

subside

economic crisis

falling off

correct

flop

drop-off

go down

slack

downturn

topple

slip

falloff

slide down

fall down

fall in

fall in prices

give out

implode

lump

meltdown

non-event

prostration

ruination

slam

slide

sliding

slipping

slowdown

snap

spill

stagnation

submerge

submerse

subsidence

become bent

wane

weaken

Traduzioni

depresión

Baisse

Preissturz

Sturz

bajón

Depression

effondrement

βυθίζομαι

Stagnation

κατρακυλώ

Fall

erweichen

Fallen

hineinplumpsen

Kurseinbruch

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/slʌmp/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine danese: slumpe

Affine norvegese: slumpe

Affine svedese: slumpa

Affine tedesco: schlumpen

Affine olandese: slompen

In summary

Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Norwegian slumpa (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“randomize; to sell off”), Swedish slump (“chance, randomness, happenstance”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”), dialectal Dutch slompen (“to walk clumsily”).