scrum
English
editEtymology
editEither a back-formation from or an apocopic form of scrummage, a variant of scrimmage.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /skɹʌm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌm
Noun
editscrum (plural scrums)
- A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people.
- A scrum developed around the bar when free beer was announced.
- (Canada) A tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a person, usually a politician, asking for comments about an issue; an opportunity provided for a politician to be approached this way.
- A scrum formed around Scott Brison in the House of Commons lobby shortly after he announced his candidacy for the federal Liberal leadership.
- (rugby) In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.
- (software engineering) In Agile software development (specifically Scrum or related methodologies), a daily meeting in which each developer describes what they have been doing, what they plan to do next, and any impediments to progress.
- Hostile shoving between two groups.
- 2021 May 11, Patrick Kingsley, Isabel Kershner, “After Raid on Aqsa Mosque, Rockets From Gaza and Israeli Airstrikes”, in New York Times[1]:
- [A] group of far-right lawmakers tried to mark Jerusalem Day by forcing their way into the street inhabited by the Palestinians listed for eviction. A group of leftist and Arab lawmakers blocked their path, setting off a brief scrum, before at least one far-right lawmaker ... broke through the Arabs' lines."
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- French: scrum
Translations
edita tightly packed and disorderly crowd of people
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(Canada) a tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a spokesperson
(rugby) all the forwards joined together in an organised way
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See also
editFurther reading
edit- scrum (rugby) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
editscrum (third-person singular simple present scrums, present participle scrumming, simple past and past participle scrummed)
- (rugby, intransitive) To form a scrum.
Derived terms
editProper noun
editscrum
- (software engineering) Alternative letter-case form of Scrum
Anagrams
editAromanian
editEtymology
editFrom Albanian shkrumb (“ash”).
Noun
editscrum n (plural scrumuri)
Derived terms
editFrench
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editscrum m (plural scrums)
Romanian
editEtymology
editUnknown. Possibly from archaic scrumb; a substratum word, akin to or from Albanian shkrumb. Other theories include Cuman Turkic kurum ("soot") (cf. Hungarian korom). Alternatively, it may simply be from an expressive root.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editscrum n (plural scrumuri)
Declension
editDeclension of scrum
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) scrum | scrumul | (niște) scrumuri | scrumurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) scrum | scrumului | (unor) scrumuri | scrumurilor |
vocative | scrumule | scrumurilor |
Derived terms
edit- scrumieră
- scrumelniță, (rare)
See also
edit- cenușă f
References
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