Word Meanings - SCATTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
Additional info about word: SCATTER
Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, Their scattered cottages, and ample plains Dryden. Teach the glad hours to scatter, as they fly, Soft quiet, gentle love, and endless joy. Prior. 2. To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse. Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths. Shak. 3. Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like. Syn. -- To disperse; dissipate; spread; strew.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCATTER)
- Dash
- Burl
- cast
- throw
- subvert
- detrude
- drive
- rush
- send
- fly
- speed
- dart
- scatter
- strike
- course
- Dispel
- Disperse
- dissipate
- drive away
- dismiss
- disseminate
- separate
- break up
- spread abroad
- deal out
- distribute
- Disseminate
- Spread
- propagate
- preach
- proclaim
- publish
- promulgate
- circulate
- Intersperse
- Interlard
- powder
Related words: (words related to SCATTER)
- SPECTACLE
An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually, - SPERMATOCYTE
See SPERMOBLAST - SPECIFICNESS
The quality or state of being specific. - DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - SPERMATIC
Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. Spermatic cord , the cord which suspends the testicle within the scrotum. It is made up of a connective tissue sheath inclosing the spermatic duct and accompanying - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - SPREADINGLY
, adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton. - SPERMATICAL
Spermatic. - PUBLISH
Etym: 1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict. Published was the bounty of her name. Chaucer. The unwearied sun, from day to day, - POWDERY
1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth. - SPECTROGRAPH
An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum. A photograph or picture of a spectrum. -- Spec`tro*graph"ic , a. --Spec`tro*graph"ic*al*ly , adv. --Spec*trog"ra*phy , n. - SPECK
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls , falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel. - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - SPECE
Species; kind. Chaucer. - SPECTATORSHIP
1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak. - PUBLISHER
One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine. For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretense. Shak. - DISMISSAL
Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley. - SPEECHLESS
1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n. - SPENDTHRIFT
One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis. - SPEED COUNTER
A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter. - OUTPREACH
To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull. - ASPER
Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon. - ANGIOMONOSPERMOUS
Producing one seed only in a seed pod. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - OOSPERM; OOESPERM
The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoön in impregnation. Balfour. - DISPENSE
1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. 2. - MISPENSE
See HALL - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - INDISPENSABLENESS
The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - SUSPENSORY
Of or pertaining to a suspensorium. (more info) 1. Suspended; hanging; depending. 2. Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle. Ray.