scatter
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scatter
- /ˈskætə/ UK
- /ˈskætɚ/ US
- /ˈskæt̞ɚ/ Ireland
- /ˈskæʔɐ/
- /ˈskæhɐ/
- /ˈskæʔɚ/
- /ˈskæhɚ/
Rhymes with -ætə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English scateren, skateren, also schateren,
* probably a variant of shatter, which is imitative;
* or from Old English *sceaterian, probably akin to a dialect of Old Norse, possibly ultimately 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 σκεδάννυμι (skedánnumi, “scatter, disperse”). and Tocharian B kät- (“to scatter, sow seeds”). Doublet of shatter.
verb scatters · scattering · scattered
- To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse. The crowd scattered in terror.
- To distribute loosely as by sprinkling. Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.
- To deflect (radiation or particles). Chasca's ring is unique. It appears to be, for lack of a better term, a massive piece of alien "installation art." The rings are made of small pieces of synthetic material, and are almost invisible from space. From the ground, they catch and scatter the light of Matano in picturesque ways. It is not
- To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow. to scatter hopes or plans
- To be dispersed upon. Desiccated stalks scattered the fields.
- Of a pitcher: to spread out a high number of hits or walks between innings so as not to give up a high number of runs
- To leave. When the police showed up, I scattered.
noun scatters
- The act of scattering or dispersing.
- A collection of dispersed objects. The Los Angeles Basin evolved as a mobility surface principally through the combination of an initial system of electric railways connecting a scatter of agricultural settlement settlements.
