scrambling

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This must be why universities are chronically underfunded and professors are constantly scrambling for their next research grant.

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Quick take

The act by which something is scrambled.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of scrambling gathered in one view.

noun

The act by which something is scrambled.

adjective

Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.

noun

(climbing) Ascending steep terrain using one's hands to assist in holds and balance.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for scrambling.

noun

The act by which something is scrambled.

adjective

Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.

noun

(climbing) Ascending steep terrain using one's hands to assist in holds and balance.

noun

(linguistics) The ability of a language to reorder arguments within a clause without changing the core meaning or violating grammaticality.

Example sentences

This must be why universities are chronically underfunded and professors are constantly scrambling for their next research grant.

Lots of unemployed people who formerly worked at startups, scrambling to get jobs and the handful of large survivors.

They needed Victoria to function, without her they are scrambling to figure out how they will do any upcoming AMAs.

This feels like Google scrambling to catch up to the Hololens and sort of making it up as they go along.

Yet both of them ended up scrambling to write their own payment platforms from scratch.

EMR, Kinesis, SWF, etc), so new users are left scrambling to figure out what they need to know.

This is why Uber and others are scrambling to buy mapping companies.

Or they're scrambling to get it out due to some caching problem.

You'll watch a single linebacker's edge rushing butcher an offense's passing game and the offense scrambling to figure out anything to slow him down.

Even in this thread people are scrambling to come up with excuses.

They could have been scrambling as much as the community was.

Sadly this robot cannot swim, and its owners are scrambling to make swimming illegal, keeping their robot afloat with ugly floaters, or <insert other analogy>.

Quote examples

I get where you're coming from, and ultimately I agree that Sourceforge screwed up by doing this whole "bundling" thing, and probably because they're scrambling desperately to make money in a GitHub world.

This is modern psychosurgery, a hi-tech, experimental, descendant of the now infamous frontal lobotomy""" Accurately damaging a small, specific area which has been identified as causing a particular problem is a far cry from jabbing ice-picks through the eye sockets, scrambling the frontal lobe and claiming it's a treatment for anything from depression and hysteria to "being a bit of a twat".

Proper noun examples

Scrambling to stay in business, or being under new management, is not an excuse to suddenly become user-hostile or otherwise turn to shady activities.