Used in a Sentence

scribbling

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for scribbling.

Editorial note

Some great things have come from people scribbling on napkins, exchanging letters, or scribbling in journals.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

That which has been scribbled, written in a scrawled or careless hand.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

That which has been scribbled, written in a scrawled or careless hand.

noun

The carding of wool or cotton.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for scribbling.

noun

That which has been scribbled, written in a scrawled or careless hand.

noun

The carding of wool or cotton.

Example sentences

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Some great things have come from people scribbling on napkins, exchanging letters, or scribbling in journals.

2

But it all ends up looking like schizophrenic scribbling on a napkin to others.

3

A process could have a rogue thread scribbling on memory and thus corrupting it.

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This isn't kindergarten where you can just show up and start scribbling.

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I agree with the article - just slapping down a bar plot of means and scribbling a p < 0.05 rating on it isn't giving people the whole picture.

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Does this need to be a canvas-scribbling React component when you can do this with better performance using a couple of lines of CSS filters?

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Likewise if anything Charles made it blatant that he was not 'working', he was playing games and scribbling on paper with legs up on the table.

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My first programming environment was C under DOS, where you could create a pointer to video memory at 0xA0000000 or 0xC0000000 and start scribbling on the screen.

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Although, after scribbling things, I usually put a clean version on file somewhere.

10

Awodey's does not have answers to the exercises, so it makes it hard to find out if I'm getting close or just scribbling things down...

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One course that worked quite well for me had a handbook (so no scribbling, but no falling asleep) and the lecturer used very little in the way of visual aids.

12

Can we create pain just by scribbling something on paper?

Quote examples

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A lot of it is not really "writing or typing" as in actaully writing code, but mostly it is scribbling blocks, arrows, labels.

2

E.g., the oscillator schema which Bret displayed and then analyzed had to be first created, and to "record a thought" scribbling on paper a shape of a transistor is likely faster than, say, dragging it from an electronic components library, which first has to be ready for that.

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When we were first scribbling out our first programs, however naive or full of bugs or flaws, we didn't immediately go push it in the faces of millions of strangers across the world (ala Show HN, GitHub, blogs, etc), a good portion of whom would be professionals alot further along, and say "omg look at this isn't it amazing I'm a hacker now please hire me k thx" No one was asking for anyone to hire anyone.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use scribbling in a sentence?

Some great things have come from people scribbling on napkins, exchanging letters, or scribbling in journals.

What does scribbling mean?

That which has been scribbled, written in a scrawled or careless hand.

What part of speech is scribbling?

scribbling is commonly used as noun.