clutter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈklʌtə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈklʌtɚ/|[ˈklʌɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A confused disordered jumble of things. uncountable
    — He saw what a Clutter there was with Huge, Over-grown Pots, Pans, and Spits.
  2. Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen. uncountable
  3. Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”). alt-of,alternative,countable
    — Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification.
  4. Clatter; confused noise. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — October 14 1718, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift I hardly heard a word of news or politicks, except a little clutter about sending some impertinent presidents du parliament to prison
  5. A Sperner family. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To fill something with clutter. transitive
    — That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
  2. To clot or coagulate, like blood. intransitive,obsolete
    — It battereth and cluttereth into knots and balls
  3. To make a confused noise; to bustle. intransitive
    — It [the goose] clutter'd here, it chuckled there; / It stirr'd the old wife's mettle: / She shifted in her elbow-chair, / And hurl'd the pan and kettle.
  4. To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering). intransitive,transitive

词形变化

clutters plural clutters present,singular,third-person cluttering participle,present cluttered participle,past cluttered past

词汇关系

衍生词
anticlutter bioclutter cluttercore clutterfree clutter-free clutterless clutterous cluttersome cluttery cyberclutter declutter e-clutter surface clutter unclutter volume clutter clutterer clutter up overclutter

词源

词源 1
From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”).
词源 2
From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”).
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