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disperse
English
Etymology
From French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergere (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargere (“to scatter”); see sparse.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??sp??s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??sp??s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
- Hyphenation: dis?perse
Verb
disperse (third-person singular simple present disperses, present participle dispersing, simple past and past participle dispersed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:disperse
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
Usage notes
- Do not confuse with the monetary word disburse, despite the two being near homophones and having a degree of semantic similarity (in which disbursed money may be dispersed among expenses). A mnemonic to help make the difference obvious (which uses a cognate of each word) is that d?s-burs-ing is taking money out of the purse, whereas d?-spers-ing causes something to be sparsely scattered.
Derived terms
Related terms
- dispersal
- dispersible
- dispersion
Translations
Adjective
disperse (comparative more disperse, superlative most disperse)
- Scattered or spread out.
Derived terms
Anagrams
- Perseids, despiser, perseids, presides
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.p??s/
Verb
disperse
- inflection of disperser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- perdisse, prédises, prédisse, présides
German
Adjective
disperse
- inflection of dispers:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
disperse
- feminine plural of disperso
Noun
disperse f pl
- plural of dispersa
Verb 1
disperse
- inflection of disperdere:
- third-person singular past historic
- third-person singular past historic
Verb 2
disperse f
- feminine plural of disperso
Anagrams
- depressi, perdessi, predisse
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /dis?per.se/, [d??s??p?rs??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dis?per.se/, [d?is?p?rs?]
Participle
disperse
- vocative masculine singular of dispersus
References
- disperse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- disperse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- disperse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Verb
disperse
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of dispersar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of dispersar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of dispersar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of dispersar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis?pe?se/, [d?is?pe?.se]
Verb
disperse
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dispersar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
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broadcast
English
Etymology
broad +? cast.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b???dk??st/, /-kæst/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b??dkæst/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?b??dkæst/
- (US)
- (California)
- Hyphenation: broad?cast
Adjective
broadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast)
- Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.
- Communicated, signalled, or transmitted through radio waves or electronic means.
- Relating to transmissions of messages or signals through radio waves or electronic means.
Synonyms
- widespread
Translations
Adverb
broadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast)
- Widely in all directions; abroad.
- (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) By having its seeds sown over a wide area.
Noun
broadcast (plural broadcasts)
- A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
- 1961 May 9, Newton Minow, "Television and the Public Interest":
- No one knows how long it will be until a broadcast from a studio in New York will be viewed in India as well as in Indiana, will be seen in the Congo as it is seen in Chicago. But as surely as we are meeting here today, that day will come; and once again our world will shrink.
- 1961 May 9, Newton Minow, "Television and the Public Interest":
- A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.
- Antonym: narrowcast
- (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
broadcast (third-person singular simple present broadcasts, present participle broadcasting, simple past and past participle broadcast or broadcasted)
- (transitive) To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.
- Synonyms: air, transmit
- Antonym: narrowcast
- (transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area; specifically, to send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.
- (intransitive) To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.
- (transitive, agriculture, horticulture, archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.
Usage notes
The past of broadcast is either broadcast or broadcasted. Both are in use, but broadcast is much more common, especially in the simple past but also as past participle. As of 2019, Google Books search gives 326,000 results for "was broadcast", vs. 12,900 for "was broadcasted".
Derived terms
Translations
Hypernyms
- cast
References
- broadcast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- broadcast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Further reading
- broadcast (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- bad actors
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