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Definitions: SCAMBLE |
SCAMBLEIntransitive verb1. To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble. 2. To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble. Transitive verb1. To mangle. |
Date "SCAMBLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disjunction | Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SCAMBLE |
| English words defined with "SCAMBLE": Scambled, Scambling. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SCAMBLE": Skimble-scamble. (references) |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SCAMBLE": Skimble-scamble. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
scamble | 20 |
buick scamble | 3 |
scamble word | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: becalms. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-m-s" | |
-1 letter: ambles, becalm, blames, cables, camels, macles, mescal. | |
-2 letters: ables, acmes, alecs, almes, amble, bales, balms, beams, bemas, blame, blams, blase, cable, calms, camel, cames, clams, laces, lambs, lames, mabes, maces, macle, males, meals, sable, scale. | |
-3 letters: able, aces, acme, albs, alec, ales, alme, alms, bale, balm, bals, bams, base, beam, bels, bema, blae, blam, cabs, calm, came, cams, case, cels, clam, elms, labs, lace, lacs, lamb, lame, lams, lase, leas, mabe, mace, macs, maes, male, meal, mels, mesa, sabe, sale, same, scab, scam, seal, seam, slab, slam. | |
-4 letters: abs, ace, alb, ale, als, bal, bam, bas, bel, cab, cam, cel, elm, els, ems, lab, lac, lam, las, lea, mac, mae, mas, mel, sab, sac, sae, sal, sea, sec, sel. | |
-5 letters: ab, ae, al, am, as, ba, be, el, em, es, la, ma, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-l-m-s" | |
+1 letter: alembics, cembalos, clambers, scramble. | |
+2 letters: bechamels, beclamors, clambakes, cymbalers, scrambled, scrambler, scrambles, semblance. | |
+3 letters: ambulances, cablegrams, camelbacks, clamberers, consumable, descramble, imbalances, lambencies, misbalance, scramblers, semblances, unscramble. | |
+4 letters: acetabulums, bimetallics, blancmanges, blastematic, compassable, compatibles, compensable, consumables, descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, lumberjacks, meroblastic, misbalanced, misbalances, resemblance, subclimaxes, unscrambled, unscrambler, unscrambles. | |
+5 letters: ambivalences, amicableness, bachelordoms, bicameralism, biochemicals, blackmailers, candelabrums, chamberlains, collembolans, decomposable, descramblers, descrambling, elasmobranch, flamboyances, inconsumable, myeloblastic, problematics, resemblances, unscramblers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 43 41 4D 42 4C 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .- -- -... .-.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000011 01000001 01001101 01000010 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S C A M B L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0043 0041 004D 0042 004C 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53373547364639 |
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