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Scramble
scramble
(scrambles, scrambling, scrambled) 1. If you scramble over rocks or up a hill, you move quickly over them or up it using your hands to help you. Tourists were scrambling over the rocks looking for the perfect camera angle... = clamber VERB: V prep/adv 2. If you scramble to a different place or position, you move there in a hurried, awkward way. Ann threw back the covers and scrambled out of bed... VERB: V prep/adv 3. If a number of people scramble for something, they compete energetically with each other for it. More than three million fans are expected to scramble for tickets... Business is booming and foreigners are scrambling to invest. VERB: V for n, V to-inf • Scramble is also a noun. ...a scramble to get a seat on the early morning flight. N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N for n, N to-inf 4. If you scramble eggs, you break them, mix them together and then heat and stir the mixture in a pan. Make the toast and scramble the eggs. VERB: V n • scrambled ...scrambled eggs and bacon. ADJ: usu ADJ n 5. If a device scrambles a radio or telephone message, it interferes with the sound so that the message can only be understood by someone with special equipment. The latest machines scramble the messages so that the conversation cannot easily be intercepted. VERB: V n
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I. verb (~d; scrambling) Etymology: perhaps alteration of 1scrabble Date: 1568 intransitive verb 1. a. to move with urgency or panic b. to move or climb hastily on all fours 2. a. to struggle eagerly or unceremoniously for possession of something ~ for front seats b. to get or gather something with difficulty or in irregular ways ~ for a living 3. to spread or grow irregularly ; sprawl, straggle 4. to take off quickly in response to an alert 5. of a football quarterback to run with the ball after the pass protection breaks down transitive verb 1. to collect by scrambling 2. a. to toss or mix together ; jumble b. to prepare (eggs) by stirring during frying 3. to cause or order (a fighter-interceptor group) to ~ 4. to disarrange the elements of a transmission (as a telephone or television signal) in order to make unintelligible to interception • ~r noun II. noun Date: 1648 1. the act or an instance of scrambling 2. a disordered mass ; jumble a…~ of patterns and textures — Vogue 3. a rapid emergency takeoff of fighter-interceptor planes ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 intr. make one's way over rough ground, rocks, etc., by clambering, crawling, etc. 2 intr. (foll. by for, at) struggle with competitors (for a thing or share of it). 3 intr. move with difficulty, hastily, or anxiously. 4 tr. a mix together indiscriminately. b jumble or muddle. 5 tr. cook (eggs) by heating them when broken and well mixed with butter, milk, etc. 6 tr. change the speech frequency of (a broadcast transmission or telephone conversation) so as to make it unintelligible without a corresponding decoding device. 7 intr. move hastily. 8 tr. colloq. execute (an action etc.) awkwardly and inefficiently. 9 intr. (of fighter aircraft or their pilots) take off quickly in an emergency or for action. --n. 1 an act of scrambling. 2 a difficult climb or walk. 3 (foll. by for) an eager struggle or competition. 4 Brit. a motor-cycle race over rough ground. 5 an emergency take-off by fighter aircraft. Phrases and idioms scrambled egg colloq. gold braid on a military officer's cap. Etymology: 16th c. (imit.): cf. dial. synonyms scamble, cramble ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) скремблирование (шифрование путём перестановки и инвертирования участков спектра сигнала или групп символов); засекречивание скремблировать; засекречивать 2) шифровать (телевизионную передачу) ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английски словарь по телекоммуникациям
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шифровать SCRAMBLE 1. сущ. 1) схватка 2) борьба (за овладение чем-л.) - scramble for office 2. гл. 1) драться 2) бороться (за овладение чем-л.) - scramble for one's living ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1) этол. схватка (в агонистических взаимодействиях) 2) карабкаться, пробираться 3) цепляться (тж. о растении) ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. карабканье a brisk scramble to the top —- быстрый подъем на вершину крутой горы 2. воен. взлет (истребителей-перехватчиков) по тревоге scramble aircraft —- дежурный самолет 3. схватка, свалка, борьба (за овладение чем-л.) the scramble for office —- погоня за должностью a scramble for new lands —- борьба за захват новых земель the scramble for a living —- борьба за существование to fling oneself into the scramble —- вмешаться в свалку there was a scramble for these books —- эти книги рвали из рук, за этими книгами была драка 4. мотогонка по сильно пересеченной местности; мотокросс 5. карабкаться; взбираться, пробираться to scramble along the edge of a cliff —- пробираться по самому краю утеса to scramble among rocks —- карабкаться по скалам to scramble over the wall —- перелезать через стену to scramble up a hill —- взбираться на гору 6. с трудом сделать (что-л.) to scramble into safety, to scramble out of danger —- избавиться от опасности to scramble through difficulties —- еле-еле справиться с трудностями to scramble along in the world —- жить бедно (трудно); еле-еле перебиваться 7. делать наспех (что-л.) to scramble into one's clothes —- наспех (кое-как) одеться, накинуть на себя что попало to scramble through one's toilet —- поспешно привести себя в порядок, кое-как закончить свой туалет to scramble through a book —- быстро просмотреть книгу he hastily scrambled up...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~1 v 1 »CLIMB« to climb up or over something with difficulty, using your hands to help you + up/down/back etc (We scrambled up a rocky slope.) 2 scramble to your feet to stand up quickly and awkwardly (He scrambled to his feet, blushing furiously.) 3 »COMPETE« to struggle or compete with other people to get or reach something + for (People were scrambling madly for shelter.) 4 »INFORMATION/MESSAGE« technical to use special equipment to mix messages, radio signals etc into a different form, so that they cannot be understood by other people, especially an enemy (A magnetic field will scramble the information on a computer disk.) 5 scramble an egg to cook an egg by mixing the white and yellow parts together and heating it 6 scramble sb's brains informal to make someone unable to think clearly or reasonably (This girl has taken enough drugs to completely scramble her brains.) 7 »AIRCRAFT« technical if a military plane scrambles, it goes up into the air very quickly in order to escape or to attack an enemy ~2 n 1 a difficult climb in which you have to use your hands to help you (a rough scramble over boulders) 2 a situation in which people compete with and push each other in order to get what they want + for (a scramble for the best seats) a scramble to do sth (a scramble to pick up the scattered coins) 3 a situation in which something has to be done very quickly, with a lot of rushing around (mad scramble) (It was a mad scramble trying to get things ready in time.) 4 a motorcycle race over rough ground ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1586, perhaps a variant of scrabble. Meaning "rapid take-off" first recorded 1940, R.A.F. slang. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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