different between scatter vs publish

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

Etymology

From Middle English publicen (by analogy with banish, finish), from Old French publier, from Latin publicare (“to make public, show or tell to the people, make known, declare, also (and earlier) confiscate for public use”), from publicus (“pertaining to the people, public”); see public.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?b'l?sh, IPA^(key): /?p?bl??/

Verb

publish (third-person singular simple present publishes, present participle publishing, simple past and past participle published)

1. (transitive) To issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale.
2. (transitive) To announce to the public.

3. (transitive) To issue the work of (an author).

4. (Internet, transitive) To disseminate (a message) publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
5. (intransitive) To issue a medium (e.g. publication).

6. (intransitive) To have one's work accepted for a publication.

7. (intransitive, of content) To be made available in a printed publication or other medium.

8. (Internet, intransitive) To convert data of a Web page to HTML in a local directory and copy it to the Web site on a remote system.
9. (programming) To make (information such as an event) available to components that wish to be notified (subscribers).

Synonyms

• (to announce to the public): disclose, make known; See also Thesaurus:announce
• (to disseminate publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.): post

Derived terms

• publishable
• publisher
• unpublished

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• bushlip