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scribble
(encz) | scribble,čmárat v: Zdeněk Brož |
scribble
(encz) | scribble,naškrábat v: Zdeněk Brož |
Scribble
(gcide) | Scribble \Scrib"ble\, v. t. [Cf. Scrabble.] (Woolen Manuf.)
To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
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Scribble
(gcide) | Scribble \Scrib"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scribbled (-b'ld);
p. pr. & vb. n. Scribbling (-bl[i^]ng).] [From Scribe.]
1. To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to
correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
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2. To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
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Scribble
(gcide) | Scribble \Scrib"ble\, v. i.
To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
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If Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite. --Pope.
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Scribble
(gcide) | Scribble \Scrib"ble\, n.
Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a
scrawl; as, a hasty scribble. --Boyle.
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Neither did I but vacant seasons spend
In this my scribble. --Bunyan.
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scribble
(wn) | scribble
n 1: poor handwriting [syn: scribble, scratch, scrawl,
cacography]
2: an aimless drawing [syn: scribble, scrabble, doodle]
v 1: write down quickly without much attention to detail [syn:
scribble, scrabble]
2: write carelessly [syn: scribble, scrawl] |
scribble
(foldoc) | scribble
To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally
destructive way. "Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program
went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table." "It was
working fine until one of the allocation routines scribbled on
low core." Synonymous with trash; compare mung, which
conveys a bit more intention, and mangle, which is more
violent and final.
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scribble
(jargon) | scribble
n.
To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way.
“Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on
the i-node table.” “It was working fine until one of the allocation
routines scribbled on low core.” Synonymous with trash; compare mung,
which conveys a bit more intention, and mangle, which is more violent and
final.
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scribble
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scribbled
(encz) | scribbled,čmáral v: Zdeněk Brožscribbled,načmáraný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
scribbler
(encz) | scribbler,pisálek n: Zdeněk Brož |
scribbles
(encz) | scribbles,čmáranice n: Zdeněk Brožscribbles,klikyháky n: Zdeněk Brož |
Bescribble
(gcide) | Bescribble \Be*scrib"ble\, v. t.
To scribble over. "Bescribbled with impertinences." --Milton.
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Scribbled
(gcide) | Scribble \Scrib"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scribbled (-b'ld);
p. pr. & vb. n. Scribbling (-bl[i^]ng).] [From Scribe.]
1. To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to
correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
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2. To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
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Scribblement
(gcide) | Scribblement \Scrib"ble*ment\, n.
A scribble. [R.] --Foster.
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Scribbler
(gcide) | Scribbler \Scrib"bler\, n.
One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation;
a literary hack.
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The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine.
--Granville.
[1913 Webster]Scribbler \Scrib"bler\, n.
A scribbling machine.
[1913 Webster]Scribbling \Scrib"bling\, n. [See 1st Scribble.]
The act or process of carding coarsely.
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Scribbling machine, the machine used for the first carding
of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.
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scribbler
(gcide) | Scribbler \Scrib"bler\, n.
One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation;
a literary hack.
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The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine.
--Granville.
[1913 Webster]Scribbler \Scrib"bler\, n.
A scribbling machine.
[1913 Webster]Scribbling \Scrib"bling\, n. [See 1st Scribble.]
The act or process of carding coarsely.
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Scribbling machine, the machine used for the first carding
of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.
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Transcribbler
(gcide) | Transcribbler \Tran*scrib"bler\ (tr[a^]n*skr[i^]b"bl[~e]r), n.
A transcriber; -- used in contempt.
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He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the
transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity
necessarily must. --Gray.
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Wool scribbler
(gcide) | Wool \Wool\ (w[oo^]l), n. [OE. wolle, wulle, AS. wull; akin to
D. wol, OHG. wolla, G. wolle, Icel. & Sw. ull, Dan. uld,
Goth, wulla, Lith. vilna, Russ. volna, L. vellus, Skr.
[=u]r[.n][=a] wool, v[.r] to cover. [root]146, 287. Cf.
Flannel, Velvet.]
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1. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which
grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in
fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied
to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most
essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate
climates.
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Note: Wool consists essentially of keratin.
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2. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
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Wool of bat and tongue of dog. --Shak.
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3. (Bot.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense,
curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.
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Dead pulled wool, wool pulled from a carcass.
Mineral wool. See under Mineral.
Philosopher's wool. (Chem.) See Zinc oxide, under Zinc.
Pulled wool, wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide.
Slag wool. Same as Mineral wool, under Mineral.
Wool ball, a ball or mass of wool.
Wool burler, one who removes little burs, knots, or
extraneous matter, from wool, or the surface of woolen
cloth.
Wool comber.
(a) One whose occupation is to comb wool.
(b) A machine for combing wool.
Wool grass (Bot.), a kind of bulrush (Scirpus Eriophorum)
with numerous clustered woolly spikes.
Wool scribbler. See Woolen scribbler, under Woolen, a.
Wool sorter's disease (Med.), a disease, resembling
malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the
wool of goats and sheep.
Wool staple, a city or town where wool used to be brought
to the king's staple for sale. [Eng.]
Wool stapler.
(a) One who deals in wool.
(b) One who sorts wool according to its staple, or its
adaptation to different manufacturing purposes.
Wool winder, a person employed to wind, or make up, wool
into bundles to be packed for sale.
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Woolen scribbler
(gcide) | Woolen \Wool"en\, a. [OE. wollen; cf. AS. wyllen. See Wool.]
[Written also woollen.]
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1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.
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2. Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen
manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper.
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Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool
in thin, downy, translucent layers.
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scribble
(wn) | scribble
n 1: poor handwriting [syn: scribble, scratch, scrawl,
cacography]
2: an aimless drawing [syn: scribble, scrabble, doodle]
v 1: write down quickly without much attention to detail [syn:
scribble, scrabble]
2: write carelessly [syn: scribble, scrawl] |
scribbler
(wn) | scribbler
n 1: informal terms for journalists [syn: scribe, scribbler,
penman]
2: a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read [syn:
scrawler, scribbler] |
scribble
(foldoc) | scribble
To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally
destructive way. "Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program
went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table." "It was
working fine until one of the allocation routines scribbled on
low core." Synonymous with trash; compare mung, which
conveys a bit more intention, and mangle, which is more
violent and final.
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scribble
(jargon) | scribble
n.
To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way.
“Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on
the i-node table.” “It was working fine until one of the allocation
routines scribbled on low core.” Synonymous with trash; compare mung,
which conveys a bit more intention, and mangle, which is more violent and
final.
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scribbler
(devil) | SCRIBBLER, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to
one's own.
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