SCRAM

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To leave in a hurry; to go away.

   “What are you kids doing on my lawn? Scram!”

2. isim A 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”

3. fiil To 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.”

4. fiil Of 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.”

5. isim A 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.”

6. isim The 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.”

7. fiil To 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]”

8. fiil To 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.”

9. isim A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails.

   “scram [...] Noun. [...] 2. A scratch. [South Wales use]”

10. isim A 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.

    “There are numbered workings running to about 20, representing small pits and scrams, sometimes worked by contract by "scrammers."”

11. fiil Of 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!"”

12. fiil To 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.]”

13. isim Alternative letter-case form of scram.

    “She watched as the Marine technical team leader pressed the red SCRAM buttons for each reactor, setting off a chorus of alarms.”

14. fiil Alternative letter-case form of scram.

    “Immediately after the earthquake, following government regulations, the remaining reactors, 1–3, automatically SCRAMed; control rods shut down sustained fission reactions.”