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Definition: Scrambled |
ScrambledAdjective1. Thrown together in a disorderly fashion; "a scrambled plan of action". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scrambled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Qualifies a signal which has an encoded or secret form and which is unintelligible except when decoded or descrambled. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Scrambled |
| English words defined with "scrambled": bacon and eggs, bag, base ♦ Chinese fried rice ♦ fried rice ♦ Scotch woodcock, scramble. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scrambled": dedicated line, DS1C ♦ juggling eggs ♦ pay television, pay-TV ♦ subscription television. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scrambled": Scramble. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Right now, I'm eating scrambled eggs, with a comb, from a shoe (Black Books; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews) So, how do you like your eggs done in the morning, scrambled or fertilized (200 Cigarettes; writing credit: Shana Larsen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Scrambled Aches (1957) Two Scrambled (1918) Scrambled Events (1916) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | (9) color slides show eggs cooked three different ways. (3) two cooked eggs (over easy?) with a salsa garnish, (1) two cooked eggs (over easy?) with a side serving of salsa, (1) two cooked eggs (over easy?) with a parsley garnish, (3) plate of scrambled eggs, (1) omelette with a strawberry garnish. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The idea being an alarming one, he scrambled out of bed, and groped his way to the window |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Winfield scrambled out and urinated at the side of the road |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Eat soft, soothing foods, such as ice cream, milkshakes, baby food, soft fruits (bananas and applesauce), mashed potatoes, cooked cereals, soft-boiled or scrambled eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese, macaroni and cheese, custards, puddings, and gelatin. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Botswana | A private analog television service from South Africa was discontinued in 2000 when the company scrambled the signal and required viewers to pay to receive the service. (references) |
Economic History | Poland | With the collapse of the ruble-based COMECON trading bloc in 1990, Poland scrambled to reorient its trade. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Total imports during 1999 were expected to have slowed down from an earlier estimate of $906 million to $815 million, as wholesalers scrambled to get rid of their old stocks. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Scrambled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 71.09% of the time. "Scrambled" is used about 504 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 71.09% | 359 | 15,003 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.43% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 9.5% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.58% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 0.4% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 504 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scrambled": scrambled egg ♦ scrambled eggs. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scrambled": scrambled-egg. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "scrambled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vezë të fërguara (fried eggs, scrambled eggs), omëletë (omelet, omelette, scrambled eggs), kokardë (scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Arabic | بيض مخلوط (scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бъркани яйца (scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Chinese | 爬行 (Crawl, Crawled, Crawling, Creeping, creeps, Crept, scramble). (various references) | |
Czech | míchaná vejce (scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Danish | forvrænget. (various references) | |
Dutch | versleuteld, vercijferd. (various references) | |
Finnish | sekoitettu, salattu. (various references) | |
French | embrouillé, brouillai, brouillé, brouillâmes, brouilla. (various references) | |
German | verschlüsselt (coded, cryptic, enciphers, encoded, encodes, keyed). (various references) | |
Greek | περιπλεγμένος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | טרוף (amok, craziness, dementia, frenzy, madness, maggot, mixed, torn apart). (various references) | |
Hungarian | összekevert (jumbled). (various references) | |
Italian | uovo strapazzato, rimescolato, indecifrabile (illegible, indecipherable), cifrato. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 煎玉子 (scrambled eggs), 煎り卵 (scrambled eggs), スキャンロン方式 (child-rearing with frequent physical contact, door-to-door condom sales-lady, reskilling, Scanlon plan, school, school bus, school color, school zone, schooling, schoolmate, schooner, scoop, scooter, scramble, scramble race, scrambled eggs, scrap, scrap and build, scrapbook, scratch, scratch hit, scratch match, scratch noise, scratch player, scratch race, scrub, scrum, scrum half, scrummage, scuba, scuba diving, self-contained under-water breathing apparatus, skill, skillful, skills inventory system, skin, skin care, skin cream, skin diver, skin diving, skin food, skinheads, square, square dance, square neckline, square stance, squeeze, squeeze bunt, squeeze play, squid). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いりたま" (scrambled eggs), スクランブルドエッグズ (scrambled eggs), スクランブルエッグ (scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Korean | '섞이". (various references) | |
Manx | oohyn bwoailt (scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Maya | tzahbil-he' (scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ambledscray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | revolvidos, misturados, mexidos. (various references) | |
Romanian | scrob (omelet, omelette, scrambled eggs), ouã jumãri (scrambled eggs), omletã (omelet, omelette, scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Russian | смешивать;бросаться зашифрованный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | umućeno jaje (scrambled egg), kajgana (omelet, omelette, scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Spanish | revuelto (churned, fumbling, higgledy-piggledy, troubled, turned, unruly). (various references) | |
Swedish | krypterad. (various references) | |
Turkish | yağda yumurta (fried egg, fried eggs, scrambled eggs), omlet (omelet, omelette, scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Turkmen | heяgenek (scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "scrambled": descrambled, unscrambled. (additional references) | |
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"Scrambled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scrambly, scrumbed, scrumble, sramble. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scrambled" (pronounced skra"mbuld) |
| 7 | -r a" m b u l d | rambled. |
| 6 | -a" m b u l d | ambled, gambled. |
| 5 | -m b u l d | assembled, crumbled, disassembled, jumbled, fumbled, grumbled, humbled, mumbled, reassembled, resembled, rumbled, stumbled, trembled, tumbled. |
| 4 | -b u l d | babbled, bubbled, cabled, cobbled, corbelled, dabbled, dibbled, disabled, labeled, labelled, libeled, doubled, dribbled, enabled, enfeebled, fabled, garbled, gobbled, hobbled, marbled, mislabeled, nibbled, redoubled, scribbled, squabbled, tabled, trebled, troubled, unlabeled, untroubled, wobbled. |
| 3 | -u l d | addled, angled, annulled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, befuddled, belittled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bottled, bridled, bristled, buckled, bundled, bungled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, coddled, commingled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumpled, cuddled, cycled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dimpled, jangled, jostled, juggled, kindled, knuckled, ladled, leveled, levelled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, dueled, dwindled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enameled, encircled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, funneled, giggled, grappled, grizzled, haggled, handled, hassled, heckled, Herald, huddled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, mangled, manhandled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mishandled, modeled, mottled, muddled, muffled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rankled, rattled, raveled, recycled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resettled, reshuffled, reveled, riddled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scaffold, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, subtitled, swindled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trickled, tripled, trundled, tussled, unbridled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, widdled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-l-m-r-s" | |
-1 letter: clambers, scramble. | |
-2 letters: amblers, becalms, bedlams, beldams, blamers, cambers, clamber, cradles, crambes, lambers, marbled, marbles, marcels, medlars, rambled, rambles. | |
-3 letters: alders, ambers, ambled, ambler, ambles, ardebs, balder, balers, bardes, beards, becalm, bedlam, beldam, blades, blamed, blamer, blames, blared, blares, blears, braced, braces, breads, breams, cabers, cabled, cables, cadres, calmed, calmer, camber, camels, carles. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-l-m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: descramble. | |
+2 letters: descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, unscrambled. | |
+3 letters: bachelordoms, candelabrums, descramblers, descrambling. | |
+4 letters: discriminable. | |
+5 letters: discomfortable. | |
| 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. | |
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