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单词 jumble
释义 jum·ble
I. \ˈjəmbəl\ verb
(jumbled ; jumbled ; jumbling \-b(ə)liŋ\ ; jumbles)
Etymology: perhaps of imitative origin
intransitive verb
1. : to move in a confused or disordered mass : move in pell-mell fashion
 < the soldiers jumbled through the door — Robert McLaughlin >
2.
 a. archaic : to make discordant sounds
 b. : to mingle in a confused or disordered manner : form a jumble
  < entrances and exits tended to jumbleTime >
3. archaic : to travel with jolts
transitive verb
1. : to mix in a confused mass : put or throw together without order — often used with up
 < jumbles the stories up, giving no indication of when they were written — Edmund Wilson >
 < jumbled up the members of the chorus … to suit his pictorial effect — Edward Sackville-West >
2. archaic : to stir, agitate, or jolt about : shake up
 < a beast … whose trot would jumble me — William Cowper >
II. noun
(-s)
1. : an assemblage of things mingled together without order, coherence, sequence, or plan : a confused, amorphous, or disordered mass : medley
 < picturesque jumbles of steep roofs, balconies, gables, dormers, and many chimneys — T.E.Tallmadge >
 < a jumble of fishing craft — Martin Chisholm >
 < a thick jumble of technical terms and apparatus — Shirley A. Briggs >
 < our plans fell into a jumble — Carleton Beals >
 < an architectural jumble >
2. archaic : an instance of jolting or of being jolted : shock, jolt
3. Britain : articles for a rummage sale
 < most of the stuff was very inferior jumble — Nigel Balchin >
also : rummage sale
 < they had a pair at the jumble — H.E.Bates >
Synonyms: see confusion
III. noun
or jum·bal \“\
(-s)
Etymology: jumble alteration (probably influenced by jumble) (I) of earlier jumbal, probably alteration of obsolete gimbal finger ring — more at gimbal
: a small thin sugared cake usually shaped like a ring
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