scramblingn.

/ˈskramblɪŋ/

Etymology: -ing suffix¹.

The action of scramble v.; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun]

fightOE

skirmingc1275

medleyc1330

mellinga1375

strugglingc1386

mellayc1400

meddlinga1450

skirmerya1500

stightlinga1500

debatea1533

camping?1549

scrambling1598

scuffling1599

duel1764

tussling1844

scrapping1891

bopping1958

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > for something shared out

scrambling1598

society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun]

i-winc888

wrestlingc890

fightc1000

flitec1000

teenOE

winOE

ungrithlOE

wara1200

cockingc1225

strife?c1225

strivingc1275

struta1300

barratc1300

thro1303

battlec1375

contentionc1384

tuggingc1440

militationa1460

sturtc1480

bargain1487

bargaining1489

distrifea1500

concertation1509

hold1523

conflict1531

ruffle1532

tangling1535

scamblingc1538

tuilyie1550

bustling1553

tilt1567

ruffling1570

wresting1570

certationc1572

pinglinga1578

reluctation1593

combating1594

yoking1594

bandying1599

tention1602

contrast1609

colluctation1611

contestationa1616

dimication1623

rixation1623

colluctance1625

decertation1635

conflicting1640

contrasto1645

dispute1647

luctation1651

contest1665

stickle1665

contra-colluctation1674

contrasting1688

struggle1706

yed1719

widdle1789

scrambling1792

cut and thrust1846

headbutting1869

push-and-pull1881

contending1882

thrust and parry1889

aggro1973

the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > [noun] > scrambling

scramble1755

scrambling1819

society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > signal > rendering unintelligible

scrambling1930

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > rapid take-off

scramble1940

scrambling1955

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motorcycle racing or race > [noun]

scramble1926

speedway1930

motocross1951

scrambling1959

motorcross1960

moto1971

supercross1975

main1980

1598 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Achilles Shield Ded. His [Virgil's] skirmishes are but meere scramblings of boyes to Homers.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 9 The Bishops, when they see him tottering, will leave him, and fall to scrambling, catch who may, hee a Patriarch-dome, and another what comes next hand.

1792 J. Barlow Let. on Constit. of 1791 13 Money..creates a perpetual scrambling for power.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II cvii. 172 At last, with swimming, wading, scrambling, he Roll'd on the beach, half senseless.

1888 R. Garnett Life Emerson ii. 86 An age was impending of selfish scrambling and shameless manœuvring.

1908 M. M. Harper Rambles in Galloway vii. 109 We were amply repaid for all our scramblings and genuflexions by the extent and beauty of the prospect.

1930 Engineering 14 Nov. 626/1 The apparatus used for this scrambling, as it is called, is installed at the Central Telegraph Office.

1942 V. E. R. Blunt Use of Air Power viii. 72 Wireless telegraphy and radio telephony..by ‘scrambling’ can now be made secret.

1955 ‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren 166 We were in the process of scrambling when the Jerries came over.

1959 New Statesman 14 Nov. 658/1 The simplest definition of scrambling is: the racing of motor bikes over rough ground.

1978 Guardian Weekly 24 Sept. 22/5 Scrambling, as distinct from fell walking and rock climbing, is a Cinderella of a sport.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

scrambling club n.

ΚΠ

1961 Guardian 17 Mar. 3/3 Motor-cycle scrambling clubs.

1974 G. Moffat Corpse Road iv. 64 She belonged to a scrambling club, which means walking... It doesn't mean rock climbing.

scrambling-ground n.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > place where contest is fought out

fieldeOE

listc1386

cockpita1568

amphitheatre1710

arena1814

scrambling-place1878

scrambling-ground1884

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Feb. 1/1 The Soudan flung away to be the scrambling-ground of the piratical adventurers of the world.

scrambling-place n.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > place where contest is fought out

fieldeOE

listc1386

cockpita1568

amphitheatre1710

arena1814

scrambling-place1878

scrambling-ground1884

1878 E. Jenkins Haverholme 49 He..protested against making the House of Commons a mere scrambling place for office.

C2.

scrambling net n. Military = scramble net n. at scramble n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > net on ship's side for climbing off or on

scramble net1944

scrambling net1959

1959 New Scientist 30 July 125/1 Home grown seeds are extracted from cones, sometimes collected by means of a ‘scrambling net’..thrown over a tall tree.

1964 C. Willock Enormous Zoo v. 75 The long-forgotten sensation of climbing down the scrambling net of a troop transport into a landing craft.

1973 A. Ross Dunfermline Affair 36 The scrambling net which the Hermione put over her side.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

scramblingadj.

/ˈskramblɪŋ/

Etymology: < scramble v. + -ing suffix². Compare scambling adj.

1. Of persons: That scramble or contend one with another. Also applied to a meal at which the partakers help themselves to what they can get.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [adjective]

scrambling1607

scuffling1610

milling1811

pugilant1882

bopping1958

the world > food and drink > food > meal > [adjective] > qualities of meals

substantial1340

simplea1387

dry1483

of substance?c1500

large1528

hearty?1550

abstemious1604

scrambling1607

running1618

lusty1672

sit-down1789

well-served1796

à la carte1816

slap-up1823

quaresimal1828

scratch1851

square1868

scrambly1900

set1914

handout1915

all-you-can-eat1940

spready1960

carbo-load1986

1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iii. iv. sig. F3 Farewell my fellow Courtiers all, with whome, I haue of yore made many a scrambling meale In corners, behind Arasses, on staires.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 36 Scatter thy Nuts among the scrambling Boys.

1831 W. O. Porter & J. Porter Sir Edward Seaward's Narr. III. 17 We enjoyed our scrambling meal infinitely more than we did our dinner yesterday.

1834 H. Martineau Moral Many Fables ii. 52 To be divided..among a scrambling multitude.

a. Irregular or rambling in form or habit. Of a plant: Of straggling or rambling growth. scrambling rocket n. (see quot. 1796).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [adjective] > climbing, spreading, or creeping

running1548

spreading1560

flat1578

ramping1578

wandering1590

upcreeping1611

gadding1638

rambling1653

obsequious1657

reptant1657

scansive1657

scansory1657

procumbent1668

repent1669

scandenta1682

supine1686

scrambling1688

creeping1697

sarmentous1721

reptile1727

sarmentose1760

prostrate1773

trailing1785

decumbent1789

travelling1822

vagrant1827

sarmentaceous1830

humifuse1854

sarmentiferous1858

amphibryous1866

humistratous1880

climbing1882

clambering1883

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [adjective]

untidya1375

unred1528

sluttish?1529

untrimmed?1529

untrick1570

untrim1570

shevelled1613

hirsute1621

incompta1628

messy1627

unneat1648

tawdry1672

slattern1680

bunting1759

untrig1821

sloggering1825

slummocking1825

scrambling1826

poucey1829

anyhow1831

mullocky1839

ragtail1846

mussy1859

slubbery1880

unshipshape1883

mussed1888

slummocky1898

ruggy1929

idle1956

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 86/2 Scrambling Trees are such as grow confusedly wide and spreading, and will not be kept in order.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 584 Erysimum officinale..Hedge Mustard, or Wormseed. Bank Cresses. Scrambling Rocket.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. ix. 229 A huge old scrambling bed-room.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 46 Shrubs, having sometimes a scrambling habit.

1851 Florist 228 Scrambling Roses, to be pegged down during their season of growth, do not make the kind of effect in beds that one could wish.

1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 200 Scrambling Rocket.

b. Of a person: Shambling, uncouth.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > inelegance > [adjective] > ungraceful > specifically of person

awkward1665

scrambling1765

orming1903

1765 W. Cowper Let. 14 Sept. (1979) I. 115 I am upon very good terms with..five families, besides two or three odd, scrambling fellows like myself.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. x. 246 What should such an ill-favoured, scrambling urchin do at court?

3. Irregular, unmethodical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [adjective]

uneven1390

irregular1483

scambling1592

prevaricant1644

eccentrica1649

vagous1660

erratical1698

scrambling1778

unregular1884

1778 Pr. Frederick in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 417 There had been a scrambling fight between Admiral Biron and Monsieur Destin.

1780 Newgate Cal. V. 196 The ceremony was a business of so scrambling and shabby a nature, that she could as safely swear she was not, as that she was married.

1795 Ld. Nelson 29 July in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 64 The scrambling distant fire was a farce.

1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 464 Their too purblind, scrambling controversies.

1878 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. vii. 137 Peter [of Blois] seems to have led a scrambling sort of literary existence.

1893 G. Tregarthen Austral. Commw. 244 The scrambling, and inefficient administration of the law.

Derivatives

ˈscramblingly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adverb] > hastily or haphazardly

scramblingly1652

any old how1904

the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > [adverb] > in scrambling manner

scramblingly1923

1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved To Husbandman sig. e2^v Half or one third part of so much land as many of you Till, shall..yeeld you as much corne as all that great quantity scramblingly husbanded.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Ladybird: Fox: Captain's Doll 242 For some time..Alexander gingerly and scramblingly led the way. The slope of ice was steeper, and rounded, so that it was difficult to stand up.

1949 D. L. Sayers tr. Dante Comedy I. xxiv. 221 I..came Scramblingly up and sat down.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	scrambling
释义	scramblingn. /ˈskramblɪŋ/ Etymology: -ing suffix¹. The action of scramble v.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] fightOE skirmingc1275 medleyc1330 mellinga1375 strugglingc1386 mellayc1400 meddlinga1450 skirmerya1500 stightlinga1500 debatea1533 camping?1549 scrambling1598 scuffling1599 duel1764 tussling1844 scrapping1891 bopping1958 society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > for something shared out scrambling1598 society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] i-winc888 wrestlingc890 fightc1000 flitec1000 teenOE winOE ungrithlOE wara1200 cockingc1225 strife?c1225 strivingc1275 struta1300 barratc1300 thro1303 battlec1375 contentionc1384 tuggingc1440 militationa1460 sturtc1480 bargain1487 bargaining1489 distrifea1500 concertation1509 hold1523 conflict1531 ruffle1532 tangling1535 scamblingc1538 tuilyie1550 bustling1553 tilt1567 ruffling1570 wresting1570 certationc1572 pinglinga1578 reluctation1593 combating1594 yoking1594 bandying1599 tention1602 contrast1609 colluctation1611 contestationa1616 dimication1623 rixation1623 colluctance1625 decertation1635 conflicting1640 contrasto1645 dispute1647 luctation1651 contest1665 stickle1665 contra-colluctation1674 contrasting1688 struggle1706 yed1719 widdle1789 scrambling1792 cut and thrust1846 headbutting1869 push-and-pull1881 contending1882 thrust and parry1889 aggro1973 the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > [noun] > scrambling scramble1755 scrambling1819 society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > signal > rendering unintelligible scrambling1930 society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > rapid take-off scramble1940 scrambling1955 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motorcycle racing or race > [noun] scramble1926 speedway1930 motocross1951 scrambling1959 motorcross1960 moto1971 supercross1975 main1980 1598 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Achilles Shield Ded. His [Virgil's] skirmishes are but meere scramblings of boyes to Homers. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 9 The Bishops, when they see him tottering, will leave him, and fall to scrambling, catch who may, hee a Patriarch-dome, and another what comes next hand. 1792 J. Barlow Let. on Constit. of 1791 13 Money..creates a perpetual scrambling for power. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II cvii. 172 At last, with swimming, wading, scrambling, he Roll'd on the beach, half senseless. 1888 R. Garnett Life Emerson ii. 86 An age was impending of selfish scrambling and shameless manœuvring. 1908 M. M. Harper Rambles in Galloway vii. 109 We were amply repaid for all our scramblings and genuflexions by the extent and beauty of the prospect. 1930 Engineering 14 Nov. 626/1 The apparatus used for this scrambling, as it is called, is installed at the Central Telegraph Office. 1942 V. E. R. Blunt Use of Air Power viii. 72 Wireless telegraphy and radio telephony..by ‘scrambling’ can now be made secret. 1955 ‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren 166 We were in the process of scrambling when the Jerries came over. 1959 New Statesman 14 Nov. 658/1 The simplest definition of scrambling is: the racing of motor bikes over rough ground. 1978 Guardian Weekly 24 Sept. 22/5 Scrambling, as distinct from fell walking and rock climbing, is a Cinderella of a sport. Compounds C1. General attributive. scrambling club n. ΚΠ 1961 Guardian 17 Mar. 3/3 Motor-cycle scrambling clubs. 1974 G. Moffat Corpse Road iv. 64 She belonged to a scrambling club, which means walking... It doesn't mean rock climbing. scrambling-ground n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > place where contest is fought out fieldeOE listc1386 cockpita1568 amphitheatre1710 arena1814 scrambling-place1878 scrambling-ground1884 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Feb. 1/1 The Soudan flung away to be the scrambling-ground of the piratical adventurers of the world. scrambling-place n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > place where contest is fought out fieldeOE listc1386 cockpita1568 amphitheatre1710 arena1814 scrambling-place1878 scrambling-ground1884 1878 E. Jenkins Haverholme 49 He..protested against making the House of Commons a mere scrambling place for office. C2. scrambling net n. Military = scramble net n. at scramble n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > net on ship's side for climbing off or on scramble net1944 scrambling net1959 1959 New Scientist 30 July 125/1 Home grown seeds are extracted from cones, sometimes collected by means of a ‘scrambling net’..thrown over a tall tree. 1964 C. Willock Enormous Zoo v. 75 The long-forgotten sensation of climbing down the scrambling net of a troop transport into a landing craft. 1973 A. Ross Dunfermline Affair 36 The scrambling net which the Hermione put over her side. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018). scramblingadj. /ˈskramblɪŋ/ Etymology: < scramble v. + -ing suffix². Compare scambling adj. 1. Of persons: That scramble or contend one with another. Also applied to a meal at which the partakers help themselves to what they can get. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [adjective] scrambling1607 scuffling1610 milling1811 pugilant1882 bopping1958 the world > food and drink > food > meal > [adjective] > qualities of meals substantial1340 simplea1387 dry1483 of substance?c1500 large1528 hearty?1550 abstemious1604 scrambling1607 running1618 lusty1672 sit-down1789 well-served1796 à la carte1816 slap-up1823 quaresimal1828 scratch1851 square1868 scrambly1900 set1914 handout1915 all-you-can-eat1940 spready1960 carbo-load1986 1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iii. iv. sig. F3 Farewell my fellow Courtiers all, with whome, I haue of yore made many a scrambling meale In corners, behind Arasses, on staires. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 36 Scatter thy Nuts among the scrambling Boys. 1831 W. O. Porter & J. Porter Sir Edward Seaward's Narr. III. 17 We enjoyed our scrambling meal infinitely more than we did our dinner yesterday. 1834 H. Martineau Moral Many Fables ii. 52 To be divided..among a scrambling multitude. 2. a. Irregular or rambling in form or habit. Of a plant: Of straggling or rambling growth. scrambling rocket n. (see quot. 1796). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [adjective] > climbing, spreading, or creeping running1548 spreading1560 flat1578 ramping1578 wandering1590 upcreeping1611 gadding1638 rambling1653 obsequious1657 reptant1657 scansive1657 scansory1657 procumbent1668 repent1669 scandenta1682 supine1686 scrambling1688 creeping1697 sarmentous1721 reptile1727 sarmentose1760 prostrate1773 trailing1785 decumbent1789 travelling1822 vagrant1827 sarmentaceous1830 humifuse1854 sarmentiferous1858 amphibryous1866 humistratous1880 climbing1882 clambering1883 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [adjective] untidya1375 unred1528 sluttish?1529 untrimmed?1529 untrick1570 untrim1570 shevelled1613 hirsute1621 incompta1628 messy1627 unneat1648 tawdry1672 slattern1680 bunting1759 untrig1821 sloggering1825 slummocking1825 scrambling1826 poucey1829 anyhow1831 mullocky1839 ragtail1846 mussy1859 slubbery1880 unshipshape1883 mussed1888 slummocky1898 ruggy1929 idle1956 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 86/2 Scrambling Trees are such as grow confusedly wide and spreading, and will not be kept in order. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 584 Erysimum officinale..Hedge Mustard, or Wormseed. Bank Cresses. Scrambling Rocket. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. ix. 229 A huge old scrambling bed-room. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 46 Shrubs, having sometimes a scrambling habit. 1851 Florist 228 Scrambling Roses, to be pegged down during their season of growth, do not make the kind of effect in beds that one could wish. 1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 200 Scrambling Rocket. b. Of a person: Shambling, uncouth. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > inelegance > [adjective] > ungraceful > specifically of person awkward1665 scrambling1765 orming1903 1765 W. Cowper Let. 14 Sept. (1979) I. 115 I am upon very good terms with..five families, besides two or three odd, scrambling fellows like myself. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. x. 246 What should such an ill-favoured, scrambling urchin do at court? 3. Irregular, unmethodical. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [adjective] uneven1390 irregular1483 scambling1592 prevaricant1644 eccentrica1649 vagous1660 erratical1698 scrambling1778 unregular1884 1778 Pr. Frederick in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 417 There had been a scrambling fight between Admiral Biron and Monsieur Destin. 1780 Newgate Cal. V. 196 The ceremony was a business of so scrambling and shabby a nature, that she could as safely swear she was not, as that she was married. 1795 Ld. Nelson 29 July in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 64 The scrambling distant fire was a farce. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 464 Their too purblind, scrambling controversies. 1878 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. vii. 137 Peter [of Blois] seems to have led a scrambling sort of literary existence. 1893 G. Tregarthen Austral. Commw. 244 The scrambling, and inefficient administration of the law. Derivatives ˈscramblingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adverb] > hastily or haphazardly scramblingly1652 any old how1904 the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > [adverb] > in scrambling manner scramblingly1923 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved To Husbandman sig. e2^v Half or one third part of so much land as many of you Till, shall..yeeld you as much corne as all that great quantity scramblingly husbanded. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Ladybird: Fox: Captain's Doll 242 For some time..Alexander gingerly and scramblingly led the way. The slope of ice was steeper, and rounded, so that it was difficult to stand up. 1949 D. L. Sayers tr. Dante Comedy I. xxiv. 221 I..came Scramblingly up and sat down. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1598adj.1607
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