scramble
part of speech
verb (scramble, scrambles, scrambled, scrambling); noun (a scramble, scrambles)
meaning for a pupil
1) (verb) To climb or move quickly and awkwardly, using your hands and feet. tree →
2) (verb) To hurry or push against others to get something: "scramble for seats". tree →
3) (verb) To mix up eggs and cook them, stirring them in a pan. tree →
4) (verb) To mix something up so it cannot be understood, like a secret code or letters. tree →
5) (verb) For fighter planes to take off quickly in an emergency. tree →
6) (noun) A rush or struggle; a hurried climb; a motorbike race over rough ground. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life, children scramble over rocks at the beach, and people scramble for bargains. In cooking, you scramble eggs. In puzzles, scrambled words (anagrams) have mixed-up letters: "tca" unscrambles to "cat". In history, the "Scramble for Africa" was when European countries rushed to take over African land in the late 1800s. Phrases: scramble up, scramble for, a mad scramble, scramble eggs, unscramble.
examples
- We scrambled up the rocks to see the sea. tree →
- There was a mad scramble for the last cake. tree →
- Can you scramble some eggs for breakfast? tree →
- Unscramble these letters to make a word: "dbir". tree →
- The fighter jets scrambled to meet the unknown plane. tree →
- In history we learned about the Scramble for Africa. tree →
- Everyone scrambled to find their coats when the bell rang. tree →
- He managed, however, to scramble out with wet sleeves and bespattered trousers. tree →
note
Past form: scrambled. Opposite of scramble (mix up) is "unscramble". "Scramble for" means rush to get. Scrambled eggs are cooked eggs, not raw.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «scramble» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.