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Definition of jumble in English: jumblenoun ˈdʒʌmb(ə)lˈdʒəmbəl 1An untidy collection or pile of things. 杂物堆，杂乱的一堆 the books were in a chaotic jumble 那些书乱七八糟地堆在一起。 Example sentencesExamples - Even after we had become used to the fascinating jumble of treasures piled throughout the house our visits were marked by an anticipatory, nervous excitement.
- I met them in front of the tennis courts by the jumble of parked bicycles as we had decided only to find them all wearing grim faces and frowns.
- They made tracks, piling up the jumble on either side.
- It does not, however, have to be a dizzying jumble of clutter.
- Most had been sketchily catalogued, but many of the boxes seemed to be hastily packed jumbles of everything from cocktail napkins and concert programs to medical reports.
- It was more a small room, and it contained jumbles of clothes.
- The stony path wound up the hill past a cave shrine and spiralled between one last jumble of boulders.
- Actually, come to think of it, the person responsible for this here jumble of junk should be punished, not rewarded.
- Many of the shelves are already cleared and the rest are an untidy jumble.
- His desk is a chaotic jumble of books, journals, miscellaneous documents, and baby pictures of his three children.
Synonyms untidy heap, confused heap, clutter, muddle, mess, confusion, welter, disarray, disarrangement, tangle, litter hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mishmash, miscellany, motley collection, mixture, mixed bag, medley, farrago informal mash-up British informal dog's dinner, dog's breakfast rare gallimaufry, mingle-mangle, congeries, macédoine - 1.1British mass noun Articles collected for a jumble sale.
〈英〉为义卖收集的杂货 we are collecting jumble for charity Example sentencesExamples - I started selling jumble from a table outside my house and have just kept going.
- Anyone wanting to donate jumble should take it to Wanborough Primary School, The Beanlands, on Friday between 5:30 pm and 8 pm.
- Fund-raiser Elizabeth Sykes said that while youngsters could collect jumble with their parents, other volunteer helpers now had to undergo a police check.
- When, with the assistance of Lottery money and a barrage of jumble and plant sales, the village reopened its reading room, the ceremony was performed by two very old ladies.
- Fate intervened in the form of a neighbour collecting jumble who just so happened to be a qualified knitter - and had a whole slew of like-minded friends.
- St Sampsons Social Centre for Old People, in Church Street, was rented out on Mondays to local causes so they could hold table-top fundraising sales of jumble and bric-a-brac.
Synonyms junk, bric-a-brac, bits and pieces British lumber rare rummage
verb ˈdʒʌmb(ə)lˈdʒəmbəl [with object]Mix up in a confused or untidy way. 混杂，搞乱 a drawer full of letters jumbled together 装满了杂乱无章地堆在一起的信件的抽屉。 Example sentencesExamples - He noticed his sword was leaning on a guardrail instead of being jumbled together with all the rest.
- But the sound has been turned down and the mix is so jumbled that it's impossible to derive anything from them.
- Let's also see whether you try to make it as unreadable as you can, by jumbling up the paragraphing.
- He sticks his head in and bursts into speech, jumbling news, soaps and ads!
- She jumbled her keys in the keyhole and waved a quick goodbye before running up the stairs.
- When you run out of paper or the words you write are jumbled up, think of the hourglass passing sand from the top to the bottom.
- Though I studied Spanish in high school and college, I found myself stumbling on phrases, jumbling pronunciations and asking natives to slow down or to repeat themselves.
- That sounded a bit better; jumbling the words about made it sound classier.
- It turns out our credit histories had been linked and jumbled.
- Acting out this scene, Ria was clearly agitated and she was jumbling up her lines.
- Already the grim images of the war have become jumbled in my mind.
- He tries to bring a poetic touch to his lines by jumbling the syntax of the sentences.
- I'm still mad, and angry, and I'm jumbling things up, but I don't care.
- But all of it is jumbled together in a way that at the end the reader is left empty, if amused.
- The episodes are jumbled up on the viewing order, so that won't help you at all.
- Thoughts were jumbled inside his head and he was having difficulty sorting them all out.
- Some users are purposefully misspelling or jumbling the names of songs so they are harder to track down.
- A few large stones were jumbled around the clearing and a wooden slab was on the ground.
- On several occasions, the files have become jumbled on the removable media.
- As far as I'm concerned, dreams are just your mind filing away the things that passed through your mind and got jumbled up during the day.
Synonyms mix up, muddle up, disarrange, disorganize, disorder, confuse, put in disarray, throw into chaos, make a shambles of shuffle
OriginEarly 16th century: probably symbolic. Rhymesbumble, crumble, fumble, grumble, humble, mumble, rough-and-tumble, rumble, scumble, stumble, tumble, umbel Definition of jumble in US English: jumblenounˈdʒəmbəlˈjəmbəl 1An untidy collection or pile of things. 杂物堆，杂乱的一堆 the books were in a chaotic jumble 那些书乱七八糟地堆在一起。 Example sentencesExamples - Even after we had become used to the fascinating jumble of treasures piled throughout the house our visits were marked by an anticipatory, nervous excitement.
- It does not, however, have to be a dizzying jumble of clutter.
- It was more a small room, and it contained jumbles of clothes.
- I met them in front of the tennis courts by the jumble of parked bicycles as we had decided only to find them all wearing grim faces and frowns.
- His desk is a chaotic jumble of books, journals, miscellaneous documents, and baby pictures of his three children.
- The stony path wound up the hill past a cave shrine and spiralled between one last jumble of boulders.
- Most had been sketchily catalogued, but many of the boxes seemed to be hastily packed jumbles of everything from cocktail napkins and concert programs to medical reports.
- Many of the shelves are already cleared and the rest are an untidy jumble.
- They made tracks, piling up the jumble on either side.
- Actually, come to think of it, the person responsible for this here jumble of junk should be punished, not rewarded.
Synonyms untidy heap, confused heap, clutter, muddle, mess, confusion, welter, disarray, disarrangement, tangle, litter - 1.1British Articles collected for a jumble sale.
〈英〉为义卖收集的杂货 Example sentencesExamples - When, with the assistance of Lottery money and a barrage of jumble and plant sales, the village reopened its reading room, the ceremony was performed by two very old ladies.
- Fund-raiser Elizabeth Sykes said that while youngsters could collect jumble with their parents, other volunteer helpers now had to undergo a police check.
- Anyone wanting to donate jumble should take it to Wanborough Primary School, The Beanlands, on Friday between 5:30 pm and 8 pm.
- Fate intervened in the form of a neighbour collecting jumble who just so happened to be a qualified knitter - and had a whole slew of like-minded friends.
- I started selling jumble from a table outside my house and have just kept going.
- St Sampsons Social Centre for Old People, in Church Street, was rented out on Mondays to local causes so they could hold table-top fundraising sales of jumble and bric-a-brac.
Synonyms junk, bric-a-brac, bits and pieces
verbˈdʒəmbəlˈjəmbəl [with object]Mix up in a confused or untidy way. 混杂，搞乱 a drawer full of letters jumbled together 装满了杂乱无章地堆在一起的信件的抽屉。 Example sentencesExamples - She jumbled her keys in the keyhole and waved a quick goodbye before running up the stairs.
- He tries to bring a poetic touch to his lines by jumbling the syntax of the sentences.
- Acting out this scene, Ria was clearly agitated and she was jumbling up her lines.
- The episodes are jumbled up on the viewing order, so that won't help you at all.
- When you run out of paper or the words you write are jumbled up, think of the hourglass passing sand from the top to the bottom.
- It turns out our credit histories had been linked and jumbled.
- But all of it is jumbled together in a way that at the end the reader is left empty, if amused.
- I'm still mad, and angry, and I'm jumbling things up, but I don't care.
- As far as I'm concerned, dreams are just your mind filing away the things that passed through your mind and got jumbled up during the day.
- But the sound has been turned down and the mix is so jumbled that it's impossible to derive anything from them.
- Though I studied Spanish in high school and college, I found myself stumbling on phrases, jumbling pronunciations and asking natives to slow down or to repeat themselves.
- That sounded a bit better; jumbling the words about made it sound classier.
- On several occasions, the files have become jumbled on the removable media.
- He noticed his sword was leaning on a guardrail instead of being jumbled together with all the rest.
- A few large stones were jumbled around the clearing and a wooden slab was on the ground.
- Let's also see whether you try to make it as unreadable as you can, by jumbling up the paragraphing.
- Thoughts were jumbled inside his head and he was having difficulty sorting them all out.
- Already the grim images of the war have become jumbled in my mind.
- Some users are purposefully misspelling or jumbling the names of songs so they are harder to track down.
- He sticks his head in and bursts into speech, jumbling news, soaps and ads!
Synonyms mix up, muddle up, disarrange, disorganize, disorder, confuse, put in disarray, throw into chaos, make a shambles of
OriginEarly 16th century: probably symbolic. |