scatter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈskætə/    美 /ˈskætɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of scattering or dispersing. countable,uncountable
  2. A collection of dispersed objects. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse. ergative
    — The crowd scattered in terror.
  2. To distribute loosely as by sprinkling. transitive
    — Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.
  3. To deflect (radiation or particles). transitive
    — 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.
  4. To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals. intransitive
  5. To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow. transitive
    — to scatter hopes or plans
  6. To be dispersed upon. transitive
    — Desiccated stalks scattered the fields.
  7. Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks. transitive
  8. To leave. US,slang
    — When the police showed up, I scattered.

词形变化

scatters present,singular,third-person scattering participle,present scattered participle,past scattered past scatters plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antiscatter bescatter rescatter scatterable scatteration scatter band scatterbrain scatterbrained scatter-brained scatter buffet scatter cushion scatter diagram scatterer scattergood scattergram scattergraph scattergun scatterhoard scatter hoarding scatteringly scatterling scatterometer scatterometric scatterometry scatter-plot scatterplot scatter point scatter rug scattershot scatter site scattersome scatter-story scatter to the four winds scattery squander tropospheric scatter upscatter

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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