different between shatter vs granulate
shatter
English
Etymology
From Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (“to smash, scatter”). Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??æt.?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??æt.?/
- Rhymes: -æt?(?)
- Hyphenation: shat?ter
Verb
shatter (third-person singular simple present shatters, present participle shattering, simple past and past participle shattered)
- (transitive) to violently break something into pieces.
- (transitive) to destroy or disable something.
- (intransitive) to smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- (transitive) to dispirit or emotionally defeat
- 1984 Martyn Burke, The commissar's report, p36
- Your death will shatter him. Which is what I want. Actually, I would prefer to kill him.
- 1992 Rose Gradym "Elvis Cures Teen's Brain Cancer!" Weekly World News, Vol. 13, No. 38 (23 June, 1992), p41
- A CAT scan revealed she had an inoperable brain tumor. The news shattered Michele's mother.
- 2006 A. W. Maldonado, Luis Muñoz Marín: Puerto Rico's democratic revolution, p163
- The marriage, of course, was long broken but Munoz knew that asking her for a divorce would shatter her.
- 1984 Martyn Burke, The commissar's report, p36
- (obsolete) To scatter about.
Translations
Noun
shatter (countable and uncountable, plural shatters)
- (countable, archaic) A fragment of anything shattered.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- it will fall upon the glass of the sconce, and break it into shatters
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- A (pine) needle.
- Synonym: shat (Maryland, Delaware)
- 1834, The Southern Agriculturist and Register of Rural Affairs: Adapted to the Southern Section of the United States, page 421:
- My usual habit is, as soon as I get my wheat trodden out, and my corn secured in the fall, to litter my farm yard (and if my cultivation is far off, I select some warm spot near the field) with leaves and pine shatters, (preferring the former) ...
- 1859, Samuel W. Cole, The New England Farmer, page 277:
- They are preserved in cellars, or out of doors in kilns. The method of fixing them is to raise the ground a few inches, where they are to be placed, and cover with pine shatters to the depth of six inches or more.
- 2012, Marguerite Henry, Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 95:
- Grandpa snapped his fingers. "Consarn it all!" he sputtered. "I plumb forgot the pine shatters. Paul and Maureen, you gather some nice smelly pine shatters from off 'n the floor of the woods. Nothin' makes a better cushion for pony feet as pine shatters ..."
- (uncountable, slang) A form of concentrated cannabis.
Translations
Anagrams
- Hatters, Threats, hatters, stareth, threats
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granulate
English
Etymology
granule +? -ate
Verb
granulate (third-person singular simple present granulates, present participle granulating, simple past and past participle granulated)
- (transitive) To segment into tiny grains or particles.
- (intransitive) To collect or be formed into grains.
- Cane juice granulates into sugar.
Related terms
- grain
- granular
- granularity
- granulation
- granule
Translations
Adjective
granulate (comparative more granulate, superlative most granulate)
- Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular.
- Having numerous small elevations, like shagreen.
Further reading
- granulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- granulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Italian
Adjective
granulate
- feminine plural of granulato
Verb
granulate
- second-person plural present indicative of granulare
- second-person plural imperative of granulare
- feminine plural of granulato
Latin
Adjective
gr?nul?te
- vocative masculine singular of gr?nul?tus
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