different between scatter vs dispersed
scatter
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)
- (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
- The crowd scattered in terror.
- (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?
- (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
- (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
- to scatter hopes or plans
- (transitive) To be dispersed upon.
- Desiccated stalks scattered the fields.
- (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)
- The act of scattering or dispersing.
- 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
- 2006, Theano S. Terkenli, Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre, Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 84
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
scatter From the web:
- what scatters light
- what scatters
- what scattered means
- what scatter plot
- what scatters light rays
- what scatters incoming solar radiation
- what scattered thunderstorms means
- what scattered showers means
dispersed
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??sp??st/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??sp??st/
- Rhymes: -??(?)st
- Hyphenation: dis?persed
Verb
dispersed
- simple past tense and past participle of disperse
dispersed From the web:
- what dispersed means
- what's dispersed camping
- what dispersed by water
- what dispersed phase means
- what does dispersed mean
- what is dispersed phase
- what is dispersed settlement
- what does dispersed camping mean
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