| 单词 | jumble |
| 释义 | jumble (once / 2098 pages) 1vn 2n When you jumble something, you throw a bunch of items haphazardly together. For example, many people jumble many random things in a kitchen junk drawer. Use the verb jumble to describe what happens when you scramble or mix things up. Some kids, for example, jumble their Lego toys together in a big bin, while others like to sort the pieces by color or size. You can call the mix of items itself a jumble too. In the early 1500s, jumble meant "to move confusedly," and it was probably modeled on stumble. Later that century, it came to mean "mix or confuse." WORD FAMILYjumble: jumbled, jumbles, jumbling+/jumbled: jumbledest USAGE EXAMPLESHis inbox, a jumble of vendor announcements, administration notices and other random requests, contains some 17,500 unread items. Nature(Dec 28, 2016) In the early games Sunday, the NFC’s playoff picture got more jumbled and the Chiefs lost control of their division championship hopes. Washington Times(Dec 20, 2016) It is a nostalgic jumble of portfolios, books, old typewriters and record players. New York Times(Dec 19, 2016) 1 1v assemble without order or sense She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence Syn|Hypo|Hyper confuse, mix up confound, confuse mistake one thing for another addle, muddle, puddle mix up or confuse assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together create by putting components or members together 2v bring into random order Syn|Hypo|Hyper scramble, throw together tumble throw together in a confused mass disarray, disorder bring disorder to 3v be all mixed up or jumbled together His words jumbled Syn|Hyper mingle be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 4n a confused multitude of things Syn|Hypo|Hyper clutter, fuddle, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter rummage a jumble of things to be given away disorder, disorderliness a condition in which things are not in their expected places 5n a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas 2Syn|Hyper hodgepodge, patchwork theory a belief that can guide behavior n small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie Syn|Hyper jumbal cake baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat |
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