Dictionary Definition
scramble
Noun
1 an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
[syn: scuffle]
Verb
1 to move hurriedly; "The friend scrambled after
them"
3 bring into random order [syn: jumble, throw
together]
4 stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat
the cream" [syn: beat]
5 make unintelligible; "scramble the message so
that nobody can understand it" [ant: unscramble]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æmbəl
Verb
- To move hurriedly to a location using all limbs against a surface.
- 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.
- To quickly enter vehicles, usually aircraft, and proceed to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
- To partake in motocross
- To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity
Translations
to move hurriedly to a location using all limbs
against a surface
- Finnish: kömpiä
to proceed to a location or an objective in a
disorderly manner
- Finnish: kömpiä, kompuroida
to mix food ingredients in a mix to be cooked
into a loose mass
- Finnish: sekoittaa
to process telecommunication signals to make
them unintelligable to an unauthorized listener
- Finnish: salata
to quickly enter vehicles and proceed to
destination
to partake in motocross
To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity
- Finnish: kiipeillä
Derived terms
Noun
Antonyms
Translations
A rush or hurry
- Finnish: kiire
An emergency defensive air force mission
A motocross race
Anagrams
Extensive Definition
Scramble may refer to:
- Scramble, a team play scoring system in golf
- Scramble (arcade game), a 1981 horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up, arcade game
- Pedestrian scramble, a pedestrian crossing system that stops all traffic and allows pedestrians to cross intersections
- Scrambling (linguistics), a term for free variation of word order, often seen in languages in which word order is not fixed
- Scrambler, in telecommunications, a device that encodes a message at the transmitter to make the message unintelligible, for instance a Content Scramble System
- Scrambler (randomizer), in telecommunications, a device that manipulates a data stream before transmitting to make the message more amenable for transmission
- Scrambled eggs, a dish made from the lightly beaten combined egg whites and yolks
- Scrambling, a method of ascending rocky faces and ridges
- Motorcycle scrambling or Motocross, a form of motorcycle racing or all-terrain vehicle racing held on enclosed off-road circuits
- "Scramble", a song by Yui Horie, opening of the anime series School Rumble
- Scramble (Comics), an enemy of the Marvel Comics Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight
- Scramble, the traditional term for the order for assigned fighter plane pilots to take off and proceed to a destination in response to an alert to either investigate a sighting or intercept an enemy
- Scramble (magazine), a Dutch aviation magazine
scramble in Japanese: スクランブル (曖昧さ回避)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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