scrambling
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[edit]Verb
[edit]scrambling
- present participle and gerund of scramble
- The Air Force is scrambling the fighter jets.
- When you start scrambling eggs, look first for tiny pieces of eggshell that might have fallen in.
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Noun
[edit]scrambling (plural scramblings)
- The act by which something is scrambled.
- The scrambling of the message made it harder to decode.
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Adjective
[edit]scrambling (comparative more scrambling, superlative most scrambling)
- Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.
- 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:
- A huge old scrambling bedroom.
- (botany) Having a stem too weak to support itself, instead attaching to and relying on the stems or trunks of stronger plants.
- 1998, Kerp, Hans, and Michael Krings. "Climbing and scrambling growth habits: common life strategies among Late Carboniferous seed ferns", Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Series IIA-Earth and Planetary Science 326.8 (1998): 583-588.
- 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.
- 1998, Kerp, Hans, and Michael Krings. "Climbing and scrambling growth habits: common life strategies among Late Carboniferous seed ferns", Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Series IIA-Earth and Planetary Science 326.8 (1998): 583-588.