Crossword clues for scribbler
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scribbling \Scrib"bling\, n. [See 1st Scribble.] The act or process of carding coarsely.
Scribbling machine, the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"petty author," 1550s, agent noun from scribble (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who scribbles; a hasty or untalented writer or artist. 2 (context dated English) A machine for coarse carding or tease of wool. 3 (label en Canadian) A ruled notebook or exercise book, especially in grade school.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Scribbler may refer to:
- a notebook
- a hasty or untalented writer or artist
- Scribbler (card shop), a British chain of greetings card shops
- Scribbler (robot)
- Scribbler (racehorse) a competitor who failed to complete the 1997 Grand National steeplechase
- An employee in a scribbling mill where the wool was roughly carded before spinning - Old English occupation. See List of Mills in Oldham for examples of scribbling mills.
- The Scribbler List of defunct newspapers of Quebec
- The Scribbler (album)
- The Scribbler (film), 2014 American thriller film directed by John Suits
- The Scribbler (graphic novel) Daniel Schaffer
The Scribbler is a small, low-cost fully programmable intelligent robot with multiple sensor systems. It is capable of auto navigation and interaction with its environment.
The Scribbler is a combined effort of three companies: Parallax Inc., Element Products Inc., and Bueno Systems Inc. In May 2010, the Scribbler was selling for a retail price of around $100 USD.
A newer version of the Scribbler, Scribbler 2, came out in the fourth quarter of 2010.
The Scribbler has a built in BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller brain. For inputting sensory information, the Scribbler has three photoresistor light sensors, infrared emitter, and infrared detector. Additional add-ons can be bought to give the robot more capabilities through the serial port. For example, a bluetooth emitter/receiver or a wireless card can be bought to interface with the robot.
The Scribbler can be programmed through any BASIC Stamp Editor program, or through a GUI-style interface, provided on Parallax's website. This uses different "command tiles" to control the motors and sensors. Using a Myro library, you can also program the Scribbler in Python.
The Scribbler is used by many teachers for educational purposes. For example, Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) has developed extensive educational materials using the Scribbler.
Scribbler is a British chain of greetings card retail shops. As of July 2016, they have 33 outlets throughout the UK.
Scribbler were founded in 1981, and as of 2012, are still run by the original management team. Scribbler state that they are "at the forefront of edgy humour and great design".
Usage examples of "scribbler".
The beam of light illuminated the dusty laths, as well as an object made of rags and an old exercise scribbler like the kind children used in school when they learned to print.
She pulled out the exercise scribbler and carried it down the hall to her own room, settling in the padded rocker by the window where she liked to feed Daniel.
Jackie closed the scribbler and rubbed her eyes, then locked the old book away in her nightstand again.
It is really the stupid egotism of authors that is the stumbling-block in the way of true literature,--each little scribbler that produces a shilling sensational thinks his or her own work a marvel of genius, and nothing can shake them from their obstinate conviction.
It takes no scribbler of antiquities to note Victorian styles still alive within us.
He recognised that Vane, poverty stricken scribbler though he might be, was a gentleman.
On the return to my homeland of the False Imam, piss be upon him, a voice visited me in the night, saying: Scribbler Nimrod!
Felix, an unfrocked monk, more of a scribbler than a scholar, and a young man named Schmidt, who gave good promise, and was already known to advantage in the literary world.
The evil tale was taken up in all its foul trappings, and, upon no better authority than the public voice, it was enshrined in chronicles by every scribbler of the day.
And here, some verses against the king, in which the scribbler leaves a blank for the name of George, as if his doggerel might yet exalt him to the pillory.
Murray Lachlan Young, a scribbler of doggerel, disappeared now, a nine-minute wonder, not the real deal like me.
It was the Chapter Coffee House, the meeting place of booksellers, authors who had made their names, and struggling scribblers hanging on to the skirts of the muses.
In London, for example, there are Anglican houses, and Presbyterian houses, houses where the scribblers of news or poetry gather to exchange lies, and houses where the general tone is set by men of knowledge who can read or pass an hour or so in conversation without being insulted by the ignorant or vomited on by the vulgar.
Fitzgerald or not, however, it must be allowed that the vulgarity, servility, and gross absurdity of the newspaper scribblers is well rendered.
Two ridiculous scribblers, that were often pestering the world with nonsense.