Scramble
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English
Interjection
scramble!
- (UK) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.
Verb
Scramble (third-person singular simple present Scrambles, present participle scrambling, simple past and past participle scrambled)
- To move hurriedly to a location using all limbs against a surface.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner , Moonfleet Chapter 3
- 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.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner , Moonfleet Chapter 3
- To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
- To mix food ingredients in a mix to be cooked into a loose mass.
- To process telecommunication signals to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
- (military) To quickly enter vehicles, usually aircraft, and proceed to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
- (sports) To partake in motocross
- To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity
Noun
Scramble (plural Scrambles)- A rush or hurry
- (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
- A motocross race
- Any frantic period of activity.
- 2011 Chris Bevan Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds
- 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.
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Thesaurus
Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, action, admix, ado, aerial combat, affray, agitation, air cover, air raid, air support, all fours, all sorts, alloy, amalgamate, argot, armored combat, arsy-varsiness, assemblage, assortment, babble, ball up, battle, battle royal, bemingle, blend, bollix up, bolt, bombing, bother, botheration, box, brawl, broad spectrum, broil, brouhaha, brush, bullfight, bundle, burst, bustle, cant, career, chase, cipher, clamber, clash, clash of arms, climb, close, clutter, coalesce, cockfight, code, collide, combat, combine, come to blows, commingle, commix, commotion, competition, complicate, compose, compound, concoct, conflict, confound, confuse, conglomerate, conglomeration, contend, contention, contest, cover, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, crowd, cryptogram, cut and thrust, dart, dash, dash off, dash on, disorder, disturbance, dogfight, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, double Dutch, double-time, drive, drive on, dry run, duel, dustup, embroilment, emulsify, exchange blows, exchange of blows, farrago, feery-fary, fence, ferment, festinate, feud, fidgetiness, fight, fight a duel, fire fight, fit, flap, fling, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, foofaraw, forge ahead, foul up, fracas, fray, free-for-all, fumble, fuse, fuss, fussiness, gallimaufry, garble, get going, get moving, gibberish, gift of tongues, give and take, give satisfaction, glossolalia, go ahead, go all out, go on tiptoe, gobbledygook, grapple, grapple with, ground combat, grovel, gumshoe, gumshoeing, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, hash, hassle, haste, hasten, helter-skelter, hie, higgledy-piggledy, hodgepodge, homogenize, hotchpot, hotchpotch, house-to-house combat, hubbub, hullabaloo, hump, hump it, hurry, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hurtle, hustle, hysteron proteron, immingle, immix, inch, inch along, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, jargon, jostle, joust, jumble, jungle, knead, leap, litter, lose no time, maelstrom, magpie, make haste, make things hum, make unintelligible, mash, medley, melange, melee, merge, mess, milk run, mingle, mingle-mangle, miscellany, mishmash, mission, mix, mix it up, mix up, mixed bag, move quickly, muck up, muddle, mystify, naval combat, nightwalk, nightwalking, noise, obfuscate, obscure, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pad, padding, pandemonium, passage of arms, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, pell-mell, pi, pitched battle, play hob with, plunge, post, pother, potpourri, press on, prowl, prowling, push, push on, pussyfoot, pussyfooting, quarrel, race, racket, ramble, rampage, rassle, reconnaissance, reconnaissance mission, restlessness, riffle, riot, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rummage, rumpus, run, run a tilt, running fight, rush, rush through, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scamper, scoot, scour, scrabble, scramble up, screw up, scrimmage, scud, scuffle, scurry, scuttle, secret language, shadow, shindy, shoot, shoot ahead, shoving match, shuffle, shuttle raid, sidle, sidling, skedaddle, skirmish, slang, slink, slinking, snafu, snake, snaking, snarl up, sneak, sneaking, sortie, spar, spasm, sprangle, spread-eagle, spurt, stand-up fight, steal, steal along, stealing, step lively, step on it, stew, stir, stir up, straddle, strafing, straggle, street fight, strive, struggle, sweat, swirl, syncretize, tauromachy, tear, throw together, thrust and parry, tilt, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, to-do, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, toss together, tourney, training mission, trouble, tug-of-war, tumble, tumult, turmoil, tussle, umbrella, unholy mess, unquiet, uproar, vortex, wage war, war, welter, what you will, whirl, work, worm, worm along, worming, wrestle
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Compare earlier dialectal scramb (“pull with hands”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æmbəl
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