scrambling
English · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
scrambling
Where it comes from
(linguistics): Coined by American linguist John R. Ross in 1967.
verb
- present participle and gerund of scramble The Air Force is scrambling the fighter jets.
noun scramblings
- The act by which something is scrambled. The scrambling of the message made it harder to decode.
- Ascending steep terrain using one's hands to assist in holds and balance.
- The ability of a language to reorder arguments within a clause without changing the core meaning or violating grammaticality. As all the Germanic languages are V2 languages (except English, which also has neither object shift nor scrambling), and as the examples are main clauses without auxiliary verbs, the main verb has moved to C.
adjective more scrambling · most scrambling
- Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. A huge old scrambling bedroom.
- Having a stem too weak to support itself, instead attaching to and relying on the stems or trunks of stronger plants. All three types of climbing organs here demonstrated for Late Palaeozoic seed ferns are also found in modern angiosperms. This leads to the conclusion that several taxa of Late Palaeozoic seed ferns were well-adapted to climbing and scrambling growth habits.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: scurry, scamper, throw together, struggle, scuffle, beat, clamber, shinny, jumble, sputter, skin, shin, jamming, struggling, rushing, blurring
Translations
Every language
verb Translations
| Deutsch | scrambling, kletternd |
|---|
noun Translations
| Français | brouillage |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Scrambling, Verwürfelung |
Talk about this word "scrambling." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/scrambling. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. scrambling. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/scrambling "scrambling." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/scrambling.Cite this
@misc{scrambling_2026,
title = {scrambling},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scrambling},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
