scrambling
/skɹˈæmbəlɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Ascending steep terrain using one's hands to assist in holds and balance.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The ability of a language to reorder arguments within a clause without changing the core meaning or violating grammaticality.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The scrambling of the message made it harder to decode."
- "As all the Germanic languages are V2 languages (except English, which also has neither object shift nor scrambling), and as the examples are main clauses without auxiliary verbs, the main verb has moved to C."
- "A huge old scrambling bedroom."
- "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."