Rush vs. Scramble — What's the Difference?

Move with urgent haste

Make one's way quickly or awkwardly up a steep gradient or over rough ground by using one's hands as well as one's feet

Dash towards (someone or something) in an attempt to attack or capture

Order (a fighter aircraft or its pilot) to take off immediately in an emergency or for action

Entertain (a new student) in order to assess suitability for membership of a college fraternity or sorority.

Make (something) jumbled or muddled

Make (a customer) pay a particular amount, especially an excessive one

(of a quarterback) run with the ball behind the line of scrimmage, avoiding tackles

A sudden quick movement towards something, typically by a number of people

A difficult or hurried clamber up or over something

An act of advancing forward, especially towards the quarterback.

An emergency take-off by fighter aircraft

The first prints made of a film after a period of shooting

A disordered mixture of things

An erect, tufted marsh or waterside plant resembling a sedge or grass, with inconspicuous greenish or brownish flowers. Widely distributed in temperate areas, some kinds are used for matting, chair seats, and baskets.

To move or climb hurriedly, especially on the hands and knees.

A thing of no value (used for emphasis)

To climb, as on a mountainside, by using both hands and feet for support but typically without using a rope or other specialized gear.

To move swiftly; hurry

To struggle or contend frantically in order to get something

To act with great haste

To take off with all possible haste, as to intercept enemy aircraft.

To make a sudden or swift attack or charge

To run around with the ball behind the line of scrimmage in order to avoid being tackled while searching for an open receiver.

To flow or surge rapidly, often with noise

To run forward with the ball when unable to complete an intended pass play. Used of a quarterback.

(Football) To advance the ball or attempt to advance the ball from scrimmage by carrying it rather than passing.

(Linguistics) To move to another position in a syntactic structure, as for emphasis. Used of phrases or other syntactic constituents.

To cause to move rapidly

To mix or throw together haphazardly.

To cause to act with haste

To gather together in a hurried or disorderly fashion.

To perform with great haste

To cook (beaten eggs) until firm but with a soft consistency.

To attack swiftly and suddenly

(Electronics) To distort or garble (a signal) so as to render it unintelligible without a special receiver.

To transport or carry hastily

To cause (aircraft) to take off as fast as possible, as to intercept enemy aircraft.

To entertain or pay great attention to

The act or an instance of scrambling.

(Football) To run toward (a passer or kicker) in order to block or disrupt a play.

An arduous hike or climb over rough terrain, especially one that requires the use of the hands for support but does not require specialized mountaineering gear.

A sudden movement toward something

A struggle for something

An anxious and eager movement to get to or from a place

(Sports) See motocross.

A sudden widespread demand

A swift takeoff of military aircraft in response to an alert or attack.

General haste or busyness

(intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.

A sudden attack; an onslaught.

(intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.

A rapid, often noisy flow or passage

To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.

A large or overwhelming number or amount

(transitive) To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.

An attempt to advance the ball from scrimmage by carrying it.

To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.

An act of running at a passer or kicker in order to block or prevent a play.

To be quickly deployed in this manner.

(Sports) A rapid advance of the puck toward the opponent's goal in ice hockey.

To partake in motocross.

Rushes The first, unedited print of a movie scene.

(intransitive) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.

A drive by a Greek society on a college campus to recruit new members

(transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.

A surge or release of emotion

(transitive) To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.

A sudden, brief exhilaration

(transitive) To throw something down for others to compete for in this manner.

The intensely pleasurable sensation experienced immediately after use of a stimulant or a mind-altering drug.

A rush or hurry, especially making use of the limbs against a surface.

Any of various grasslike wetland plants of the genus Juncus, having stiff hollow or pithy stems and small usually clustered brownish flowers.

(military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.

Any of various similar plants, such as a bulrush.

A motocross race.

The stem of one of these plants, used in making baskets, mats, and chair seats.

Any frantic period of competitive activity.

Performed with or requiring great haste or urgency

(gridiron football) An impromptu maneuver or run by a quarterback, attempting to gain yardage or avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage.

Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.

(golf) A statistic used in assessing a player's short game, consisting of a chip or putt from under 50 yards away that results in requiring one putt or less on the green.

The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.

(golf) A variant of golf in which each player in a team tees off on each hole, and the players decide which shot was best. Every player then plays their second shot from within a club length of where the best ball has come to rest, and the procedure is repeated until the hole is finished.

The merest trifle; a straw.

(UK) Shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item, causing them to rush for it.

A wick.

To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

A sudden forward motion.

To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.

A surge.

To collect by scrambling; as, to scramble up wealth.

General haste.

To prepare (eggs) as a dish for the table, by stirring the yolks and whites together while cooking.

A rapid, noisy flow.

The act of scrambling, climbing on all fours, or clambering.

(military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.

The act of jostling and pushing for something desired; eager and unceremonious struggle for what is thrown or held out; as, a scramble for office.

(video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.

An unceremonious and disorganized struggle

(contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.

Rushing about hastily in an undignified way

A rusher; a lineman.

To move hurriedly;

A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.

Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

(college slang) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.

Bring into random order

(college slang) A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.

Stir vigorously;

A perfect recitation.

Make unintelligible;

(croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.

To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.

(intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.

To dribble rapidly.

To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.

(transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.

To make a swift or sudden attack.

(military) To swiftly attack without warning.

To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.

(transitive) To transport or carry quickly.

To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.

To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.

To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

To play at a faster tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually increase tempo while one is playing.

Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

The merest trifle; a straw.

A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.

Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.

A perfect recitation.

A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.

To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.

To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.

To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.

To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner;

A sudden forceful flow

Grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems

Physician and Revolutionary American leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813)

The swift release of a store of affective force;

A sudden burst of activity;

(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line;

Step on it;

Attack suddenly

Urge to an unnatural speed;

Act or move at high speed;

Run with the ball, in football

Cause to move fast or to rush or race;

Cause to occur rapidly;

Not accepting reservations

Done under pressure;