Scatter

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  • intransitive verb. To cause to separate and go in different directions.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To distribute loosely; strew.
  • intransitive verb. To be strewn over or across.
  • intransitive verb. To diffuse or deflect (radiation or particles).
  • intransitive verb. To allow (hits or walks) in small numbers over several innings. Used of a pitcher.
  • intransitive verb. To separate and go in different directions; disperse.
  • noun. The act of scattering or the condition of being scattered.
  • noun. Something scattered.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In optics, to reflect diffusely or irregularly, as from a rough surface.
  • To throw loosely about; strew; sprinkle.
  • To besprinkle or strew as with something thrown here and there.
  • To separate and drive off in disorder and in all directions; rout; put to disorderly retreat or flight; disperse; dissipate: as, to scatter an enemy's forces; to scatter a mob.
  • Hence To throw into confusion; overthrow; dispel; put to flight: as, to scatter hopes, fears, plans, etc.
  • To let fall as by accident or at random; drop.
  • Synonyms To diffuse, spread, distribute.
  • 3 and Disperse, Dispel, etc. See dissipate.
  • To separate and disperse; proceed in different directions; hence, to go hither and thither at random.
  • Specifically, to throw shot too loosely or without concentration of the charge: said of a gun.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate.
  • transitive verb. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.
  • transitive verb. To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse.
  • transitive verb. Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
  • verb. To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
  • verb. (physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
  • verb. To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. to cause to separate and go in different directions
  • verb. distribute loosely
  • noun. the act of scattering
  • verb. cause to separate
  • noun. a haphazard distribution in all directions
  • verb. strew or distribute over an area
  • verb. move away from each other
  • verb. sow by scattering
  • Word Usage
    "Once a scatter is attached, a right side of a shade should demeanour similar to this."
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    seed  sow  spread  spreading  
    Rhyme
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    Attar  Hatter  Tatar  antimatter  attar  
    Same Context
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    atomize  bend  besprinkle  bestrew  bias  
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