Scrambling

Scrambling
Scrambling Scram"bling, a. Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- {Scram"bling*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]

A huge old scrambling bedroom. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]


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  • Scrambling — Scramble Scram ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Scrambled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scrambling}.] [Freq. of Prov. E. scramb to rake together with the hands, or of scramp to snatch at. cf. {Scrabble}.] 1. To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • scrambling — noun the leisure activity of scrambling over rough or steep ground. ↘Brit. the sport of racing motorcycles over rough and hilly ground …   English new terms dictionary

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  • Scrambling (Linguistik) — Scrambling ist ein Begriff in der Sprachwissenschaft für das Phänomen der so genannten „freien Wortstellung“. Während die Anordnung der Elemente im Satz in einigen Sprachen (wie z. B im Englischen) strukturell sehr festgelegt ist, ist die… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Scrambling (linguistics) — Scrambling is the variation of the order of words in a sentence in a language in which word order is not fixed. The term originated with the Chomskian tradition of Transformational Grammar, wherein word order in all languages is taken to be… …   Wikipedia

  • scrambling customs —    A recurrent feature of customs, all over the country, is a scrambling , whereby something is thrown to a crowd and everyone scrambles to get it. In many cases the item thrown is edible nuts, oranges, apples, or even pieces of pie (at *Hal… …   A Dictionary of English folklore

  • scrambling gromwell — gulsčioji litodora statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Agurklinių šeimos dekoratyvinis augalas (Lithodora diffusa), paplitęs pietų Europoje ir Maroke. atitikmenys: lot. Lithodora diffusa angl. scrambling gromwell; shrubby gromwell šaltinis… …   Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

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