different between scatter vs lavish

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

English

Alternative forms

• lavis, laves, lavas (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English *lavish, laves, *lavaus, lavage (“extravagant, wasteful”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French lavasse (“torrent of rain”), or derived from Middle English laven (“to pour out”). See lave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læv??/
• Rhymes: -æv??

Adjective

lavish (comparative lavisher or more lavish, superlative lavishest or most lavish)

1. Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
   • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.

2. Superabundant; excessive
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure Act 2 Scene 2

     Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes

Synonyms

• (expending profusely): profuse, prodigal, wasteful, extravagant, exuberant, immoderate, opulent
• See also Thesaurus:prodigal

Related terms

• lavy

Translations

Verb

lavish (third-person singular simple present lavishes, present participle lavishing, simple past and past participle lavished)

1. (transitive) To give out extremely generously; to squander.

2. (transitive) To give out to (somebody) extremely generously.

Translations

Related terms

• lavisher
• lavishly
• lavishness

Anagrams

• Vishal