scramverb詞源 1/skɹæm/

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  To leave in a hurry; to go away.

  • What are you kids doing on my lawn? Scram!
  • Maybe when he found that Chet's jalopy was gone, he felt he'd better scram, and forgot the coat and hat.

scramnoun詞源 1/skɹæm/

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  slangA gun, firearm.

  • Bad be say she don’t usually do this In the trap with a stick, I do this Get ’round there with a scram I don’t give a damn
  • My manager says I'm stupid for still rollin' with a scram I hate explainin' myself and I don't think he'll understand

scramverb詞源 2/skɹæm/

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  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsTo shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.

  • The NCR [Nuclear Regulatory Commission] further demands the plant conform to all the safety requirements put into effect during construction. This means constant re-design. There must also be several ways to scram (emergency shut down) the reactor. Some of these are automatic and some are manual.
  • Startup of reactor recirculating pump resulted in flux spike scraming plant.
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  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsOf a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.

  • This shut off current to the control rod mechanism, and the reactor scrammed (shut off) automatically.
  • As soon as the earthquake struck, the reactors "scrammed"—shut down automatically—as they were supposed to.

scramnoun詞源 2/skɹæm/

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  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency.

  • During scram operation, a scram signal de-energizes the inlet and outlet scram valves. The outlet scram valve vents the volume above the drive piston to a scram dump tank. The inlet scram valve supplies scram pressure obtained from an accumulator to the under side of the vented piston.
  • Of the 14 scrams experienced, none was caused by operation exceeding the design parameters. Eight scrams occurred with the control rods withdrawn. [...] Six scrams occurred while the rods were inserted. Five were intentional to prevent accidental rod withdrawal, and one was the unintentional result of an instrument adjustment.
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  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsThe device used to shut down a nuclear reactor; also, the button or switch used to initiate a shutdown.

  • Each room housing a radiation source has a red-buttoned "scram" switch on the wall. One touch of the switch and all equipment stops abruptly.
  • She watched as the Marine technical team leader pressed the red SCRAM buttons for each reactor, setting off a chorus of alarms.

scramverb詞源 3/skɹæm/

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  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsTo scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.

  • scram [...] Verb. [...] 2. To scratch, with claws or fingernails. E.g. "It's my own fault the cat scrammed me, I was teasing it." [South Wales use]
  • A woman has praised firefighters and her cat for saving her life following an alleged arson attack. Two-and-a-half-year-old tortoiseshell Taffy repeatedly bit owner Tracie Horgan-Hodgkiss on the hand until she woke up when her flat filled with acrid smoke in the early hours of this morning. [...] "I’d like to say thank you very much to the firefighters for coming to rescue me. And I am sorry that Taffy scrammed one of them!"
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  archaicbusinessminingnatural-sciencesTo mine for ore on a small scale, especially from mines previously been worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed.

  • Just west of this pit is another one, which has been nearly worked out; but three men are scramming about five tons per day in it.
  • Recently, Capt. Oliver, [...] set a couple of experienced miners to work scramming in this underground pit, when it was soon discovered that what the former mining captain had conceived to be a regular foot-wall, was, in fact, a thin shale of rock, which hid from view what now appears to be a very large body of clean blue ore.

scramnoun詞源 3/skɹæm/

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  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails.

  • scram [...] Noun. [...] 2. A scratch. [South Wales use]
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  archaicbusinessminingnatural-sciencesA mine previously worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed, but which is still being mined on a small scale.

  • [page 64] Many of these old openings still afford places where ore is mined. A man can start in almost anywhere and fine ore. There is a great deal of this "scramming" done at the Jackson. Quite a proportion of the annual product comes in this way. Not unfrequently one of these "scrams" leads to the finding of a large deposit of ore. [...] [page 67] South from the east part of the Incline pit they have a scram of good ore which furnished a small product.
  • There are numbered workings running to about 20, representing small pits and scrams, sometimes worked by contract by "scrammers."

scramverb詞源 4/skɹæm/

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  archaicdialectalnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsOf one's body or limbs: to become numb or stiff due to cold, lack of movement, etc.

  • The bean-setters can fully appreciate the nipping, biting keenness of the air, and avow frankly, in their own peculiar idiom, "that they be pretty nigh scrammed!"
  • But though he had breeches and waistcoats to spare, / He had nothing quite seemly for Barbee to wear, / Who, half shrammed to death, stood and cried on a chair / At the caddle she found herself in.
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  archaicdialectalnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsTo be weakened by an accident, a disease, starvation, etc.

  • "But they will be scrammed!^* the children will be scrammed, Mary, before morning," cried Jim, scratching his head with perplexity and distress at the very thought of two young creatures sleeping on the bare boards, in a cold garret with only a shawl to cover them. [Footnote *: Starved.]