Crossword clues for scrambling
scrambling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrambling \Scram"bling\, a. Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv.
A huge old scrambling bedroom.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Scramble \Scram"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scrambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scrambling.] [Freq. of Prov. E. scramb to rake together with the hands, or of scramp to snatch at. cf. Scrabble.]
To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.
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To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. n. An act of scramble. v
(present participle of scramble English)
Wikipedia
Scrambling (also known as alpine scrambling) is "a walk up steep terrain involving the use of one's hands". It is an ambiguous term that lies somewhere between hiking, hillwalking, mountaineering, and easy rock climbing. Canyoning often involves scrambling.
Alpine scrambling is a term applied to scrambling in high mountains like the Alps and the Rockies of North America, and may not follow a defined or waymarked path. The Mountaineers climbing organization defines alpine scrambling as follows:
Alpine Scrambles are off-trail trips, often on snow or rock, with a 'non-technical' summit as a destination. A non-technical summit is one that is reached without the need for certain types of climbing equipment (body harness, rope, protection hardware, etc), and not involving travel on extremely steep slopes or on glaciers. However, this can mean negotiating lower angle rock, traveling through talus and scree, crossing streams, fighting one's way through dense brush, and walking on snow-covered slopes.
Scrambling is a common term for pragmatic word order. In the Chomskyan tradition, every language is assumed to have a basic word order which is fundamental to its sentence structure, so languages which exhibit a wide variety of different orders are said to have "scrambled" them from their "normal" word order. The notion of scrambling has spread beyond the Chomskyan tradition and become a general concept that denotes many non-canonical word orders in numerous languages. Scrambling often (but not always) results in a discontinuity; the scrambled expression appears at a distance from its head in such a manner that crossing lines are present in the syntactic tree. Scrambling discontinuities are distinct from topicalization, wh-fronting, and extraposition discontinuities. Scrambling does not occur in English, but it is frequent in languages with freer word order, such as German, Russian, Persian and Turkic languages.
In military aviation, scrambling is the act of quickly getting military aircraft airborne to react to an immediate threat, usually to intercept hostile aircraft.
Usage examples of "scrambling".
After three weeks of the senseless scrambling the Admiral was forced to declare that there would be no more admissions to planets and whole systems having vital bearing on the welfare of the Fleet.
Communication was cut off simply and efficiently by scrambling techniques which must have meant the expenditure of trillions of kilowatts per hour.
Something was moving the pink powder around-the way it shifted and swirled, it looked like thousands of tiny little shapes, all moving and scrambling at once.
Thousands of terrified Lazarus Movement activists were streaming away from the Institute, scrambling wildly through its rock gardens of cactus, sagebrush, and wildflowers.
Then she gathered Tasa in her arms and ran, scrambling toward the nearest doorway in a frantic effort to find shelter.
At the moment, all he could make out was a mass of mud-covered soldiers scrambling, slipping, knotting ropes and shouting inaudibly to each other, and at least three wagons buried to their axles on what had once been the road but had since turned into a river of mud.
The fourth wing dropped down into the streets, soldiers flinging themselves from the saddles and scrambling for cover.
He saw the dog suddenly, a dark shape scrambling along the rampart in the company of a guard, its leash pulled taut.
The comment left her scrambling to remember what she had been speaking about.
In truth he blazed, shining in his glory, and the enemy scattered and shrieked, scrambling backward as the sun itself plummeted to the battlefield, so bright Wichman had to shield his eyes against its unexpected glare and Sanglant stepped back as the downrush from their wings struck him.
The sniffer led him scrambling up the slope to the outcrop, like a huge stone thumb thrust out of the mountain.
He saw Loial scrambling on his hands and knees, fumbling and searching the grass in the darkness.
They wasted only an instant staring at him in disbelief before they were scrambling into their saddles.
She had to do some scrambling to get herself into college without a high school transcript.
There was a sudden flurry of activity outside, and Meredith looked out to see a dozen photographers scrambling into position on the steps.