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Definition of Scatter

1. Verb. To cause to separate and go in different directions. "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"

2. Noun. A haphazard distribution in all directions.

3. Verb. Move away from each other. "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"

4. Noun. The act of scattering.

5. Verb. Distribute loosely. "They scatter sugar over the cake"; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"

6. Verb. Sow by scattering. "Scatter seeds"

7. Verb. Cause to separate. "Disperse particles"

8. Verb. Strew or distribute over an area. "Scatter cards across the table"

Definition of Scatter

1. v. t. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

2. v. i. To be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate; as, clouds scatter after a storm.

Definition of Scatter

1. Verb. (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) (physics) To deflect (radiation or particles). ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scatter

1. to go or send in various directions [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Scatter

1. Spread in irradiation away from its target. (16 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scatter

scatoma scatophagous scatophagy scatophiles scatoscopy scats scatt scattald scattalds scatted

scatter (current term) scatter'd scatter factor scatter pin scatter plot scatter rug scatteration scatterations scatterbrain scatterbrained

scatterbrains scattered scattered disc scattered radiation scattered shower

Literary usage of Scatter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"The triple dog that scares the shadowy kind, scatter. Prop.2 44. scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, Kl 63. scatter with a free, though frugal, ..."

2. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... level with (1. raze to) the ground, level, raze; ranks of (1. rout) the enemy; — voimiaan divide one's forces, scatter one's strength. ..."

3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... the steely point Under the brain went onward ; white the bones scatter'd, and all the teeth came shatter'd forth ; His eyeballs fill'd with blood ..."

4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"All from ^STAR, to scatter; sec Straw, sometimes means to go or come forward, to proceed, advance ; see Gloss, to Spec, of Eng., ed. ..."

5. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"To scatter the attention. Simple oil is reduced into ... L. To scatter every way; to disperse. The heat at length grows so great, ..."

6. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"See scatter. space, n. I. See TIME. 2. Referring to the generic idea: place (noto archaic or rhetorical, and chiefly in contrast to "time"), expansion (ob«. ..."

7. Sacred songs: no. 2, compiled and arranged for use in gospel meetings by Ira David Sankey, James McGranahan, George C Stebbins (1899)
"Оно. — Then scatter seeds of kindness, Then scatter seeds of kindness, Then scatter seeds of kindness, For our reaping by and by. ..."

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