different between shed vs scatter
shed
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sh?d, IPA(key): /??d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English sheden, scheden, schoden, from Old English sc?adan, sc?dan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between; remove from association or companionship; distinguish, discriminate, decide, determine, appoint; shatter, shed; expound; decree; write down; differ”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþan? (compare West Frisian skiede, Dutch and German scheiden), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt- (“to cut, part, divide, separate”), from *skey-.
See also Welsh chwydu (“to break open”), Lithuanian sk?sti (“to spread”), skíesti (“to separate”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (c?diti, “to filter, strain”), Ancient Greek ????? (skhíz?, “to split”), Old Armenian ???? (c?tem, “to scratch”), Sanskrit ????? (cyáti, “he cuts off”)). Related to shoad, shit.
Verb
shed (third-person singular simple present sheds, present participle shedding, simple past and past participle shed or (nonstandard) shedded)
- (transitive, obsolete, Britain, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
- c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece
- If there be any thing that knitteth himself to the ilk middle point [of a circle], it is constrained into simplicity (that is to say, into unmovablity), and it ceaseth to be shed and to flit diversely.
- 1460–1500, The Poems of Robert Henryson
- The northern wind had shed the misty clouds from the sky;
- 1635, "Sermon on Philippians III, 7, 8", in Select Practical Writings of David Dickson (1845), Volume 1, page 166 Internet Archive
- Lest […] ye shed with God.
- c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece
- (transitive, intransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
- 1707, John Mortimer, The whole Art of Husbandry
- White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.
- 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
- She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.
- 1707, John Mortimer, The whole Art of Husbandry
- (transitive, archaic) To pour; to make flow.
- (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
- (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.
- (obsolete, transitive) To pour forth, give off, impart.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To fall in drops; to pour.
- swich a reyn doun fro the welkne shadde
- To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- 1606, Ben Jonson, Hymenaei
- Her hair […] is shed with gray.
- 1606, Ben Jonson, Hymenaei
- (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English schede, schode, schad, shæd, from a combination of Old English sc?ada (“a parting of the hair, top of the head”) and Old English ?es??ad (“distinction, reason”).
Alternative forms
- shode (dialectal)
- shead, shede (obsolete)
Noun
shed (plural sheds)
- (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- (obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.
- (obsolete) A parting in the hair.
- (obsolete) The top of the head.
- (obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
- (physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10-52 square meters
Derived terms
- countershed
- watershed
Translations
Etymology 3
Dialectal variant of a specialized use of shade.
Noun
shed (plural sheds)
- A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
- a wagon shed; a wood shed; a garden shed
- A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
- (Britain, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
- (Britain, rail transportation) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Scottish Gaelic: seada
- ? Welsh: sièd
Translations
See also
Verb
shed (third-person singular simple present sheds, present participle shedding, simple past and past participle shedded)
- To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
References
- “shed”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- edhs, heds
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- shedu
Etymology
From Latin sede?. Compare Romanian ?edea, ?ed.
Verb
shed (third-person singular present indicative shadi / shade, past participle shidzutã)
- I sit.
Related terms
See also
- mi-ashedzu
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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
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