scramble
Part of speech: verb
noun
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Rubik's-Cube
climbing
games
golf
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps from earlier dialectal scramble, scrammel (“to collect or rake together with the hands”), from scramb (“to pull or scrape together with the hands”) + -le (frequentative suffix) (compare Dutch schrammen (“to graze, brush, scratch”)); or alternatively from a nasalised form of scrabble (“to scrape or scratch quickly”).
Base: scramb
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: scrambles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrambling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrambled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrambled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scrambles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As half-time approached Fabregas had another chance to give Barcelona the lead. He collected an incisive Messi pass and this time beat Cech, who required Cole to scramble back and clear the ball off the line.
When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.
gloss: To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I scrambled some eggs with spinach and cheese.
gloss: To process telecommunication signals to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
pos: verb
tags: also
broadly
transitive
examples: But on April 13 it 'scrambled' a rake of Mk 2s and dual-braked 'Black 5' 45212 to start its lucrative summer money-spinner two days later.
gloss: To be quickly deployed in this manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As the planes scrambled, four of his veterans went up: Tom Lanphier, Rex Barber, Joe Moore and Jim McLanahan. They had waited with other Lightnings at 30,000 feet and dived on a formation of eleven Zeroes far below, working in pairs.
gloss: To partake in motocross.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Seeing some of Britain's most beautiful waterfalls, rivers and pools from the most absurd angles as you scramble your way either up or down a mountain river course.
gloss: To gather or collect by scrambling.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They say we are a scatter'd nation: / I cannot tell, but we have scrambled up / More wealth by far than those that brag of faith.
gloss: To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Of other care they little reck'ning make, / Then how to ſcramble at the ſhearers feaſt,
gloss: To throw something down for others to compete for in this manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] Father Boniface standing on the verandah of the Monastery on a Sunday afternoon “scrambling” lollies to the kids […]
gloss: To permute parts of a twisty puzzle (especially, Rubik's Cube) until it is ready to be solved from scratch.
pos: verb
gloss: A rush or hurry, especially making use of the limbs against a surface.
pos: noun
examples: a last-minute scramble to the finish line
gloss: An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
pos: noun
examples: 1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.
There goes the siren that warns of the air raid / Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak / Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne / Got to get up for the coming attack.
gloss: A motocross race.
pos: noun
gloss: Any frantic period of competitive activity.
pos: noun
examples: And the Leeds defence, led by the impressive Alex Bruce, was also in determined mood. Jonathan Howson had to clear a Sebastien Squillaci effort off his line and Becchio was also in the right place to hack clear after a goalmouth scramble.
[I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.
gloss: An impromptu maneuver or run by a quarterback, attempting to gain yardage or avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage.
pos: noun
gloss: A statistic used in assessing a player's short game, consisting of a chip or putt from under 50 yards away that results in requiring one putt or less on the green.
pos: noun
gloss: A variant of golf in which each player in a team tees off on each hole, and the players decide which shot was best. Every player then plays their second shot from within a club length of where the best ball has come to rest, and the procedure is repeated until the hole is finished.
pos: noun
gloss: A dish (meal) involving scrambled eggs and a hodgepodge of complementary ingredients, usually closer to a casserole than to an omelette.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: hash
The diner's menu features "the farmer's scramble" (under all-day breakfast) and "the fisherman's fricassee" (under dinner entrees).
gloss: A venue where enslaved people were auctioned during the Atlantic slave trade.
pos: noun
gloss: Shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item, causing them to rush for it.
pos: intj
tags: UK
Related words: sortie
Derived words: descrambler
scramblase
scramble band
scrambled eggs
scrambler
scramble up
scramblevision
scrambling
scrambly
scromlette
unscrambler
scramble competition
scramble crossing
scramble dinner
scramble net
ice scramble
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: lähettää
lang: German
word: ausschwärmen
lang: Polish
word: wyrywać się
lang: Polish
word: wyrwać się
lang: Russian
word: подня́ться по трево́ге
roman: podnjátʹsja po trevóge