scatter
Collocations
5ADJ.
agricultural, broad, little, necessary
VERB + SCATTER
began, coming, connecting, don't, ground, points, ships, shows
SCATTER + NOUN
astray, bodies, cattle, chickens, data, flour, graves, israel
PREP.
about, in, on, out
ADV.
apart
Definitions
verb
To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
The crowd scattered in terror.
Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.
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?
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 known who created the ring or when.
To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
to scatter hopes or plans
noun
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.
A broad scatter of kurgan graves in the steppes contained imported Tripolye C2 pots (among other imported pot types) and a few, like Serezlievka, also contained Tripolye-like schematic rod-headed figurines.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the act of scattering
- scattering
- strewing
noun — a haphazard distribution in all directions
verb — cause to separate
verb — strew or distribute over an area
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6The crowd scattered in terror.
WiktionaryScatter and disperse the giddy Goths.
WiktionaryHer ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.
WiktionaryThe 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.
WiktionaryA broad scatter of kurgan graves in the steppes contained imported Tripolye C2 pots (among other imported pot types) and a few, like Serezlievka, also contained Tripolye-like schematic rod-headed figu
WiktionaryThe plot of all our sea-level index points shows a scatter of data points that do not overlap […]
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