different between lace vs scatter

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /le?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English lace, laace, las, from Old French las, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, based on Latin laqueus. Doublet of lasso.

Noun

lace (countable and uncountable, plural laces)

1. (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. ^Wp
   • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers

     Our English dames are much given to the wearing of very fine and costly laces.

   • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

2. (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. ^Wp

3. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.

   • Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his las.

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4. (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.

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Synonyms

• (cord):
  • (for a shoe): shoelace
  • (for a garment): tie

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lacen, lasen, from Old French lacer, lacier, lasser, lachier, from the noun (see above).

Verb

lace (third-person singular simple present laces, present participle lacing, simple past and past participle laced)

1. (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.

   • When Jenny's stays are newly laced.

2. (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
3. (transitive) To interweave items.
   • The Gond […] picked up a trail of the Karela, the vine that bears the bitter wild gourd, and laced it to and fro across the temple door.

4. (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
5. (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
6. (transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ALEC, Acle, Alec, acle, alec, cale

Esperanto

Adverb

lace

1. wearily

Related terms

• laca

French

Verb

lace

1. first-person singular present indicative of lacer
2. third-person singular present indicative of lacer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of lacer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of lacer
5. second-person singular imperative of lacer

Anagrams

• cale, calé
• cela

Latin

Verb

lace

1. second-person singular present active imperative of laci?

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.t?s?/

Noun

lace f

1. dative/locative singular of laka

Portuguese

Verb

lace

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of laçar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of laçar
3. first-person singular imperative of laçar
4. third-person singular imperative of laçar

Spanish

Verb

lace

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lazar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lazar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of lazar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English scateren, skateren, (also schateren, see shatter), from Old English *sceaterian, probably from a dialect of Old Norse. Possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split, shatter”). Compare Middle Dutch scheteren (“to scatter”), Low German schateren, Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”); and is apparently remotely akin to Ancient Greek ?????????? (skedánnumi, “scatter, disperse”). Doublet of shatter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?skæt?/
• (General American) enPR: sk?t??r, IPA^(key): /?skæt?/
• Rhymes: -æt?(?)
• Hyphenation: scat?ter

Verb

scatter (third-person singular simple present scatters, present participle scattering, simple past and past participle scattered)

1. (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

   The crowd scattered in terror.
2. (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.

   Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.

   • Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?

3. (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
4. (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
5. (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.

   to scatter hopes or plans

6. (transitive) To be dispersed upon.

   Desiccated stalks scattered the fields.
7. (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.

Synonyms

• (disperse): See also Thesaurus:disperse

Derived terms

• scatterbrain
• scatterplot
• scattershot

Translations

Noun

scatter (countable and uncountable, plural scatters)

1. The act of scattering or dispersing.
2. A collection of dispersed objects.
   • 2006, Theano S. Terkenli, Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre, Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 84

   • 2015, Ian Shennan, Antony J. Long, Benjamin P. Horton, Handbook of Sea-Level Research, John Wiley & Sons ?ISBN, page 19

Further reading

• scatter at OneLook Dictionary Search
• scatter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• scatter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

References

Anagrams

• tracest