(v. t.) To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.
(v. i.) To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly.
(n.) A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.
(n.) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
Example Sentences:
(1) British students now occupy fourth place in the ethnic jumble in Maastricht and their numbers are rising relatively fast.
(2) The surprise move came after Tuesday's much-noticed stumble, when the US supreme court chief justice, John Roberts, jumbled the words, prompting Obama to follow suit.
(3) Spectators were so closely packed that emergency services had to gather up a macabre jumble of body parts, and the final toll was never confirmed.
(4) Surely we could manage clothes banks as well, even if they do put jumble sales and charity shops out of business, which in turn are putting ordinary shops out of business.
(5) Within a year, however, its jumble of metal shops would be making bombs, the first generation of largely nationalist and tribal insurgents already being replaced by a more dangerous group of jihadi fighters.
(6) This statement is a jumble of buzzwords that makes no sense.
(7) He compounded the error by offering up a jumbled reply whereas Bill Clinton moved across the stage towards the questioner and spoke about the impact he had witnessed on people in Arkansas, where he was governor.
(8) Cascades of golden light overpower the sun, rising from a jumble of massive titanium forms piled on top of each other, part train crash and part explosion in a bullion vault.
(9) Promoted as a new way to make art accessible by removing the barriers between exhibition and mass consumption, it was criticised for turning art into a "jumble sale".
(10) Why keep daytime TV churning through the wastes of the day on both BBC1 and BBC2 when one channel could do the threadbare run of Angela Lansbury series and jumble-sale reality without anyone missing or caring?
(11) In experiment 3, significant effects of familiarity were also observed when the task was to distinguish intact faces from jumbled faces.
(12) The hall where it was held is only a stone’s throw from Jaywick , the jumble of former holiday chalets and potholed streets that is reckoned to be the poorest council ward in England: on the face of it, a symbol of the kind of deep social problems that tend to be synonymous with political apathy.
(13) We're going to fob you off with some old jumble from the attic."
(14) The route that is laid anew each year through the icefall, one of the most dangerous passages though low down the peak, has been largely destroyed and local Sherpa guides who specialise in preparing a path through the jumble of ice blocks and crevasses are reported to have refused to repair it.
(15) In the living room beyond, a toilet, bathtub and sink are clustered among a jumble of tools and building materials.
(16) To the east, across a deep railway cutting and a jumble of industrial sheds, lie the terraced streets of Leyton and Stratford, home to some of London's most deprived wards, where over a third of children still live in poverty .
(17) Jumbling remained an effective variable even when the subject knew where to look and what to look for.
(18) The test is also useful in monitoring recovery from jumbling.
(19) Nothing of it shows above ground; 20ft down is a confused, inaccessible jumble of rooms, corridors and frescoes, buried beyond the reach of the public, an enormous Tut's tomb with nothing of value in it.
(20) But look beyond this thin crust of decent homes – a block-deep Potemkin facade of regeneration – and a sea of jumbled shacks continues to stretch endlessly into the distance.
Rumble
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.
(v. i.) To murmur; to ripple.
(n.) A noisy report; rumor.
(n.) A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train.
(n.) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
(n.) A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
(v. t.) To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(2) In two exceptional patients with a prolonged PR interval, this apical sound was separated from a presystolic rumble that occurred during an accelerated phase of mitral inflow or at the A wave of mitral valve echograms.
(3) So little wonder that the spectacle of five safety incidents in a week – however minor – could trigger rumblings of distrust from a nervous public.
(4) As soon as the feed-in tariff was removed, that position looked very different.” What’s more, Rumble believes that solar energy was just a few years away from being cheap enough not to require government support to grow.
(5) The students said they were told in London that a journalist would accompany them and that they risked deportation or detention if they were rumbled.
(6) It was here in 1974 that the heavyweights fought the Rumble in the Jungle under the gaze of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko .
(7) The LV dimension was significantly decreased in HCM with rumble as compared with those of HCM without rumble and the normal subjects.
(8) It sounds like the rumblings of a typical North Korean purge.
(9) Sir Richard Dalton, former UK ambassador to Iran "Iran seems to have been tipped off and come clean because it knew it was about to be rumbled.
(10) "Fortunately Denmark seem to have rumbled this sneaky Dutch trick just in time to bench him... " 1 min: Denmark set the game in motion ... 2 min: Already the game has settled into the pattern we all foresaw, with Holland staking out the full width of the pitch and stroking the ball around deliberately.
(11) Rumblings of discontent had been circulating for months with the two clashing over player recruitment following a summer of inexplicable inactivity at Bloomfield Road , and the point of no return appeared to be reached when then-Burton boss Gary Rowett was openly offered the job in September.
(12) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
(13) On cardiac examination, a pansystolic bruit and a diastolic rumble were audible at the tricuspid focus.
(14) Less noticed, because less obviously political, are current intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century , a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation.
(15) All that changed on China’s “Black Monday” last week, when the stock market sell-off that had been rumbling along for weeks turned into a rout.
(16) There are rumblings that Goldman and UBS should go without some of their fees if it is found they got the valuation wrong.
(17) Turkish police appeared uneasy at the size of the crowd gathered near a fragile border fence and fired teargas grenades to disperse them, adding the crack of smaller explosions to the rumbling of the Isis advance.
(18) Factors necessary for the production of a diastolic rumble appear to include central flow, a flexible stent, and the presence of biologic material.
(19) Discontent has been rumbling at New York fashion week since 2010, when the official catwalks were relocated from the more intimate Bryant Park space to the Lincoln Centre.
(20) Perhaps because few of us know what a gene actually does, the debate about whether we are a product of our DNA or our environment rumbles on.