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Scrummage

Definition: Scrummage

Scrummage

Noun

1. (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.
 



Synonym: Scrummage

Synonym: scrum (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Scrummage

"Scrummage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.14% of the time. "Scrummage" is used about 59 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)88.14%5247,145
Lexical Verb (infinitive)11.86%7133,076
                    Total100.00%59N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scrummage

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

scrummage

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Scrummage

Language Translations for "scrummage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

спорна топка (scrimmage, scrum). (various references)

   

German

  

offenes gedränge (scrimmage), gedränge (bunching, congestion, crowd, crush, hustle, jam, jostle, jostling, melee, press, rush, scrimmage, scrum, squash, squeeze, throng). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συνωστισμόσ (congested, crowding, crush, huddle, jam). (various references)

   

Italian

  

mischia (fray, melange, melee, scrum, 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, scrum half, 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 

  

スクラメージ . (various references)

   

Manx

  

cleebyrt (scrimmage). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ummagescray

   

Spanish

  

melé (ruck, scrum). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

scrimmage (scrum), krabba (crab, scrum), klunga (bunch, clump, cluster, crowd, knot, scrum), bilda klunga (scrum). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

saldırı (aggression, assault, attack, charge, dash, invasion, offence, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, on-slaught, pounce, raid, scrimmage, scrum, thrust), itip kakma (hustle and bustle, jostle, scrum), itişip kakışma (hustling, scrimmage, scrum), hamle (attack, blow, burst, dart, dash, drive, elan, lunge, move, onset, pounce, push, put, run up, scoop, scrum, spurt), çarpışma (action, bump, clash, collision, combat, conflict, encounter, engagement, foul, impact, rencontre, scrimmage, scrum, set to, skirmish, smash, smash up). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сутичка (affair, affront, bump, bustle, clash, collision, conflict, encounter, fight, fighting, fray, impingement, jostle, mix in, rencontre, rencounter, scramble, scrimmage, shock, skirmish, tilt), скандалити (brawl, cut up rough, rag, raise cain, row, scrimmage). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Scrummage

Derivations

Words beginning with "scrummage": scrummaged, scrummages. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Scrummage

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-m-m-r-s-u"

-1 letter: rummages.

-2 letters: cummers, gammers, grammes, gummers, rummage, scummer.

-3 letters: amuser, argues, augers, cagers, causer, cesura, creams, cummer, gamers, gammer, graces, gramme, grumes, gummas, gummer, macers, marges, mauger, maugre, muscae, sacrum, saucer, sauger, scream, smegma, summae, summer.

-4 letters: acmes, acres, agers, agues, amuse, arcus, argue, argus, arums, auger, aures, cager, cages, cames, cares, carse, cause, crags, crams, cream, cruse, cures, curse, ecrus, escar, gamer, games, gaums, gaurs, gears, gemma, germs, geums, grace, grams, grues, grume, guars, gumma, macer, maces, mages, magus, marcs, mares, marge, marse, maser, muras, mures, musca, muser, races, rages, ramus, reams, regma, rugae, sager, sagum, sarge, sauce, scare, scaur, scrag, scram, scrum, serac, serum, smarm, smear, sucre, sugar, sumac, summa, surge, urase, ureas, urges, ursae, usage.

-5 letters: aces, acme, acre, ager, ages, ague, amus, arcs, ares, arms, arse, arum, cage, came, cams, care, cars, case, crag, cram, crus, cues, cure, curs, ears, ecru, ecus, emus, eras, ergs, gaes, game, gams, gars, gaum, gaur, gear, gems, germ, geum, gram, grue, grum, guar, gums, mace, macs, maes, mage, mags, marc, mare, mars, megs, mems, mesa, mugs, mums, mura, mure, muse, race, rage, rags, rams, rase, ream, recs, regs, rems, rues, ruga, rugs, rums, ruse, sage, same, scag, scam, scar, scum, seam, sear, sera, smug, suer, sura, sure, urea, urge, ursa, user.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-m-m-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: scrummaged, scrummages.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Scrummage


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 72 75 6D 6D 61 67 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    .-.    ..-    --    --    .-    --.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01110010 01110101 01101101 01101101 01100001 01100111 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#114 &#117 &#109 &#109 &#97 &#103 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0072 0075 006D 006D 0061 0067 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

536984877979677371

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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