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Definition: Scrum |
ScrumNoun1. (rugby football) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scrum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
Synonym: ScrumSynonym: scrummage (n). (additional references) |
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Its intended use is for management of software development projects, and it has been successfully used to "wrap" Extreme Programming (see http://www.xbreed.net ) and other development methodologies. However, it can theoretically be applied to any context where a group of people need to work together to achieve a common goal - real examples include setting up a small school, scientific research projects and pulling off a wedding (strange, but true)!
Scrum is characterised by:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scrum."
Crosswords: Scrum |
| English words defined with "scrum": Hooker. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Scrum" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (ash, ashes). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Scrum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scrum" is used about 328 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 328 | 15,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "scrum": scrum half. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scrum": scrum-five, scrum-half, scrum-halfs, scrum-halves, scrum-wheeling, scrum-worker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
scrum | 36 |
scrum v | 7 |
rugby scrum | 6 |
scrum machine | 2 |
scrum woman | 2 |
com scrum | 2 |
half scrum | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scrum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përleshje (conflict, dustup, fight, fighting, fray, melee, mix in, mix up, scramble, scrimmage, scuffle, set to, skirmish, tussle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спорна топка (scrimmage, scrummage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | skrumáž, tahanice, mlýn (mill, ruck, scrimmage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gedränge (bunching, congestion, crowd, crush, hustle, jam, jostle, jostling, melee, press, rush, scrimmage, scrummage, squash, squeeze, throng). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | dulakodás (grapple, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle), viaskodás (scuffle), kavarodás (hassle, hurly-burly, mix-up, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scrimmage, stir, tangled skein, turmoil), közelharc (close combat, dog fight, dog-fight, hand-play, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, hand-to-hand fighting, infighting, scrimmage), összefutás (concourse, confluence, convergence), összecsapás (clash, collision, cope, encounter, rencontre, rencounter, scrimmage, set-to, shock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mischia (fray, melange, melee, scrummage, scuffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | スキャンロン方式 (child-rearing with frequent physical contact, door-to-door condom sales-lady, reskilling, Scanlon plan, school, school bus, school color, school zone, schooling, schoolmate, schooner, scoop, scooter, scramble, scramble race, scrambled eggs, scrap, scrap and build, scrapbook, scratch, scratch hit, scratch match, scratch noise, scratch player, scratch race, scrub, scrum half, scrummage, scuba, scuba diving, self-contained under-water breathing apparatus, skill, skillful, skills inventory system, skin, skin care, skin cream, skin diver, skin diving, skin food, skinheads, square, square dance, square neckline, square stance, squeeze, squeeze bunt, squeeze play, squid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | スクラ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lieh-chooylee cleebyrt (scrum half). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umscray impetigo (impetigo, impetuosity), impetigem. (various references) драка (affray, battle royal, fight, fray, mix in, mix-in, scrimmage, scuffle, tussle, wigs on the green). (various references) zgura (slag), ološ (canaille, rabble, ragtag, riff raff, riffraff, scum, trash, wreckage), gužva za loptu (scrimmage). (various references) melé (ruck, scrummage). (various references) scrimmage (scrummage), krabba (crab, scrummage), klunga (bunch, clump, cluster, crowd, knot, scrummage), bilda klunga (scrummage). (various references) saldırı (aggression, assault, attack, charge, dash, invasion, offence, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, on-slaught, pounce, raid, scrimmage, scrummage, thrust), itip kakma (hustle and bustle, jostle, scrummage), itişip kakışma (hustling, scrimmage, scrummage), hamle (attack, blow, burst, dart, dash, drive, elan, lunge, move, onset, pounce, push, put, run up, scoop, scrummage, spurt), çarpışma (action, bump, clash, collision, combat, conflict, encounter, engagement, foul, impact, rencontre, scrimmage, scrummage, set to, skirmish, smash, smash up). (various references) сутичка навколо м'яча, збуджений натовп. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scrum": scrummage, scrummaged, scrummages, scrummaging, scrummed, scrumming, scrumptious, scrumptiously, scrums. (additional references) | |
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"Scrum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ascryum, ascyrum, escru, sarum, scarum, schrund, scr, Scro, scrom, scru, scrue, scrul, scrume, scrump, scrung, scrut, scruw, scrux, scumb, scurm, scurn, skru, skrud, skrue, skrum, sorum, srem, ssru. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-m-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: crus, curs, rums, scum. | |
-2 letters: cum, cur, mus, rum, sum. | |
-3 letters: mu, um, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-m-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: crumbs, crumps, mucors, mucros, sacrum, scrums. | |
+2 letters: ceriums, cormous, crinums, crissum, cumbers, cummers, cuprums, curiums, muckers, murices, rectums, sacrums, scrotum, scummer. | |
+3 letters: arcanums, buckrams, centrums, cerumens, chetrums, chromous, clamours, clumbers, clumsier, consumer, costumer, craniums, crumbers, crumbles, crumbums, crummies, crumpets, crumples, cumarins, cumbrous, curcumas, customer, cutworms, decorums, fulcrums, microbus, mucrones, mudrocks, munchers, muscular, numerics, pumicers, racemous, scrotums, scrummed, scummers, scummier, spectrum. | |
+4 letters: cardamums, castoreum, cerebrums, charmeuse, cherubims, chromiums, clamorous, claustrum, clubrooms, colostrum, combustor, commuters, composure, computers, consumers, corundums, costumers, costumery, costumier, coumarins, coumarous, creamcups, criminous, crumbiest, crumhorns, crummiest, cucumbers, cumberers, cuniforms, customary, customers, drumstick, dulcimers, dumpcarts, electrums, encumbers, epicurism, franciums, incumbers, macrurans, manicures, mercuries, mercurous, midcourse, misstruck, mouchoirs, muckrakes, muckworms, muscarine, outcharms, plectrums, sacrarium, scrummage, scrumming, simulacra, simulacre, smutchier, spectrums, submicron, supremacy, triticums, turmerics, unciforms. | |
+5 letters: ambuscader, americiums, calvariums, castoreums, ceruminous, charmeuses, chemurgies, circumcise, circumfuse, collyriums, colostrums, combustors, commissure, communards, composures, compulsory, consortium, conundrums, costumiers, courtrooms, creampuffs, criteriums, cruciforms, crumbliest, crumblings, crumminess, crumpliest, cumbersome, cumbrously, cuneiforms, currycombs, customizer, dicumarols, docudramas, doronicums, drumsticks, dulcimores, dumbstruck, ecotourism, epicurisms, eurythmics, humoristic, indecorums, lunchrooms, majuscular, manicurist, manuscript, meerschaum, mercurates, mercurials, metacarpus, microburst, microbuses, microluces, microluxes, micrurgies, micturates, minicourse, miraculous, monoculars, moonstruck, muckrakers, muscarines, muscarinic, muscularly, numeracies, operculums, outmarches, overmuches, practicums, proscenium, puromycins, recomputes, rheumatics, scaramouch, sclerotium, scrubwoman, scrubwomen, scrummaged, scrummages, secularism, securement, simulacres, simulacrum, supermacho, supermicro, thumbscrew, touchmarks, uncrumples, unscramble, urochromes, zirconiums. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 72 75 6D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. ..- -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110010 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c r u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0072 0075 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369848779 |
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