Scramble vs Memorize - What's the difference?
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(UK) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.
To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
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To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
(transitive, of food ingredients, usually, including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
(military) To quickly enter (vehicles, usually aircraft) and proceed to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
(sports) To partake in motocross.
To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
To gather or collect by scrambling.
To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
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A rush or hurry
(military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
A motocross race
Any frantic period of activity.
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to learn by heart, commit to memory
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As verbs the difference between scramble and memorize
is that scramble is to move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface while memorize is to learn by heart, commit to memory.As an interjection scramble
is (uk) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.As a noun scramble
is a rush or hurry.scramble
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Interjection
scramble!Verb
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- When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.
- I scrambled some eggs with spinach and cheese.
- to scramble up wealth
- (Marlowe)
- Of other care they little reckoning make, / Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.
Derived terms
* scrambled eggsNoun
(en noun)Antonyms
* sortieAnagrams
* English ergative verbsmemorize
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Alternative forms
* (UK) memoriseVerb
- Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star (Jerry Lucas of the New York Knicks) had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book.
- She was so used to the way he moved—they'd been practicing together for years, and she'd memorized the way his body worked.