unscramble
pronunciation
How to pronounce unscramble in British English:
UK [ˌʌnˈskræmbl]
How to pronounce unscramble in American English:
US [ʌnˈskræmbəl]
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- Verb:
- make intelligible
- become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
Word Origin
- unscramble (v.)
- "restore to order," 1911, from un- (2) "reverse, opposite of" + scramble (v.). The original use is in a quip attributed to U.S. financier J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) about the impossibility of unscrambling an omelet. Mr. Morgan is credited with the aphorism that the recent trust decisions are like an order to a cook to "unscramble" the eggs which have just been prepared. [Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science," January 1912] Related: Unscrambled; unscrambling.
Example
- 1. Unscramble canadian newest land and resource government program .
- 2. Unscramble balance sheet , profit sheet and cash flux sheet .
- 3. Unscramble the sexual classics of man unusual .
- 4. Unscramble the prime increase of people seriously .
- 5. Across the city , traders were being reminded of how difficult it is to unscramble a business such as lehman , a firm with hundreds of billions of dollars tied up in derivative contracts .