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Scramble vs Flow - What's the difference?

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Scramble is a related term of flow.


In lang=en terms the difference between scramble and flow

is that scramble is to gather or collect by scrambling while flow is to discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

As verbs the difference between scramble and flow

is that scramble is to move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface while flow is to move as a fluid from one position to another.

As nouns the difference between scramble and flow

is that scramble is a rush or hurry while flow is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.

As an interjection scramble

is (uk) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.

scramble

English

Interjection

scramble!
  • (UK) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.

    • Verb

    (scrambl)
  • To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=18 April , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As half-time approached Fabregas had another chance to give Barcelona the lead. He collected an incisive Messi pass and this time beat Cech, who required Cole to scramble back and clear the ball off the line.}}
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 3
    • 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.
  • 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.
    • I scrambled some eggs with spinach and cheese.
  • 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 scramble up wealth
    (Marlowe)
  • 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.
  • * Milton
    • Of other care they little reckoning make, / Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.

    Derived terms

    * scrambled eggs

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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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    • Antonyms

    * sortie

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs

    flow

    English

    Noun

  • A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
  • The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • The rising movement of the tide.
  • Smoothness or continuity.
  • The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
  • (psychology) The state of being at one with.
  • Menstruation fluid

    • Antonyms

    * (movement of the tide) ebb

    Related terms

    * antiflow * dark flow * ebb and flow * flowable * inflow * midflow * outflow * postflow * preflow * reflow * reflowable

    External links

    * (wikipedia "flow") *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move as a fluid from one position to another.
    • Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
    Tears flow from the eyes.
  • To proceed; to issue forth.
    • Wealth flows from industry and economy.
  • * Milton
    • Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
  • To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
    • The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow .
  • * Dryden
    • Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
  • To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
  • * Bible, Joel iii. 18
    • In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
  • * Prof. Wilson
    • the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
  • To hang loosely and wave.
    • a flowing''' mantle; '''flowing locks
  • * A. Hamilton
    • the imperial purple flowing in his train
  • To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
    • The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.
  • (computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
  • To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
  • To cover with varnish.
  • To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

    • Anagrams

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