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SCRAMBLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Thrown together in a disorderly fashion
Example:
a scrambled plan of action
Classified under:
Similar:
disorganised; disorganized (lacking order or methodical arrangement or function)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb scramble
Context examples:
Without a pause I rushed up to the east window, and scrambled down the wall, as before, into the Count's room.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Because cosmic ray particles carry an electrical charge, their paths become scrambled when they encounter magnetic fields on their journey to Earth.
(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)
However, qubits in an optical fiber can travel only short distances before their special quantum properties are lost and the information is scrambled.
(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The woman now called to them that supper was ready, so they gathered around the table and Dorothy ate some delicious porridge and a dish of scrambled eggs and a plate of nice white bread, and enjoyed her meal.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
As he spoke he scrambled down one of the narrow ravines, and, climbing over a low ridge at the further end, he led them into a short valley with a stream purling down the centre of it and a very thick growth of elder and of box upon either side.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With both arms clasping the branch, I scrambled hard with my feet until I had worked, first my body, and then my knees, onto it.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I fear that the scrambled eggs are cold.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She had her nettings up, but we scrambled aboard, and at it we went hammer and anvil.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He scrambled backward, bursting out in an astonished explosion of ki-yi's.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
As I scrambled out on all fours, I passed over the body of Thomas Mugridge, who lay in a groaning heap.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
