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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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elaiosome
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek ?????? (élaion, “olive oil”) + ???? (sóma, “body”).
Noun
elaiosome (plural elaiosomes)
- (botany) A fleshy structure rich in lipids attached to the seeds of many plant species, usually to attract ants that disperse the seeds.
- 1999, Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W. van Rooyen, Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants, Springer, page 17,
- Ants collect the diaspores for the edible elaiosome, carry them to their nests and consume the elaiosomes. Sometimes, the elaiosome content is sucked from the diaspores, or the elaiosome is loosened on the way to the nest.
- 2003, Elena Gorb, Stanislav S. N. Gorb, Seed Dispersal by Ants in a Deciduous Forest Ecosystem: Mechanisms, Strategies, Adaptations, Kluwer Academic Publications, page 44,
- Experiments with removal of C.[Corydalis] cava seeds with elaiosomes ablated, and with paper balls, infiltrated with juices of seed bodies and elaiosomes, showed the crucial role of elaiosome content in the ant attraction.
- 2007, Victor Rico-Gray, Paulo S. Oliveira, The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions, University of Chicago Press, page 47,
- Elaiosomes also vary in size, and ants in many instances preferentially disperse diaspores with the greatest elaiosome/diaspore mass ratio, although plants produce seeds of different sizes, allowing for a variety of ants to effect their dispersal
- 1999, Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W. van Rooyen, Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants, Springer, page 17,
Hyponyms
- caruncle
Translations
See also
- diaspore
- myrmecochory
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