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noun
verb
- (transitive) To be dispersed upon.
- (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
- (slang, US) To leave.
- (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
- (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
- (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
- (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.
- cause to separate
- sow by scattering
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- distribute loosely
- strew or distribute over an area
noun
- The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- the property of being diffused or dispersed
- (physics, weather) Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
- The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
- (physics) The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.
- (marketing) The gradual spread and adoption of goods or services.
- (physics) The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.
- The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.
- (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration
- the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another
noun
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- A process of dispersing.
- The state of being dispersed.
- spreading widely or driving off
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- (physics) The separation of waves of different frequency in space or time; the amount of such separation.
- (medicine) The removal of inflammation.
- The degree of scatter of data.
noun
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- the property of being diffused or dispersed
- the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate
- The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.
noun
- the act of scattering
- A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
- (physics) The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.
- the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- spreading widely or driving off
- (elections) The total number of votes awarded to nonmajor or unlisted candidates.
verb
noun
- breaking up and scattering by dispersion
- The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
- A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
- (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.
noun
- A scattering.
- The action of the verb to sprinkle.
- A light shower of rain.
- A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
- the act of sprinkling or splashing water
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
verb
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
- cause to become widely known
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- separate (light) into spectral rays
- distribute loosely
adj
verb
noun
- A female guinea pig.
- A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
- (derogatory, slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.
- A female bear, she-bear.
- (military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
- A female pig.
- A sowbug.
- A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
- an adult female hog
noun
- the act of scattering water about haphazardly
- a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
- the sound like water splashing
- a small quantity of something moist or liquid
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
- a patch of bright color
- An impact or impression.
- (wrestling) A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
- (computing, informal) A splash screen.
- (MLE, slang) A knife.
- (comics) A splash page.
- (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
- (journalism) A large, prominent headline or article.
- A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
- (military, slang) The shooting down of an aircraft over water.
- A small amount of liquid.
- A small amount (of color).
- (MLE, slang) The bleeding caused by a knife wound.
verb
- cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
- mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered
- dash a liquid upon or against
- soil or stain with a splashed liquid
- make a splashing sound
- walk through mud or mire
- strike and dash about in a liquid
- (transitive) To hit or expel liquid at.
- (transitive, MLE) To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.
- (intransitive) To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- (transitive) To hit or agitate (liquid) so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- (transitive) To spend (money).
- (transitive, nautical) To launch a ship.
- (military, slang) To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.
- (figurative) To roughly fill with color.
- (transitive) To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently.
- (intransitive) (of a liquid) To disperse suddenly as a result of an impulse; to splatter.
verb
- (transitive) To scatter or spread.
- (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
- (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
- (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
- (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
- (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
- (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
- (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
- (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
- (business) To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
- (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
- cause to become widely known
- be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses
- cause to be distributed
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- release a publication
- spread throughout a given area
- be mathematically distributive
- give to several people
- distribute or disperse widely
- to arrange in a systematic order
verb
- To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
- (UK) To waste time.
- (ornithology, of a bird) To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
- To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
- To blow a short gust.
- To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
- To waffle, talk aimlessly.
- (intransitive) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
- (transitive) To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
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verb
noun
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To destroy or disable something.
- (intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
- (intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- (transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
- (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
- break into many pieces
- cause to break into many pieces
- damage or destroy
verb
- (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- (intransitive, transitive, debating slang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- become distributed or widespread
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- distribute or disperse widely
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread across or over
noun
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The act of spreading.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
- (debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- A numerical difference.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- An expanse of land.
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
- (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
- (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
- (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- Something that has been spread.
- (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- decorative cover for a bed
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
- (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
- (transitive) To use up or waste; squander.
- (transitive) To drive away, disperse.
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
verb
- (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
- (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
- (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
- (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
- (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
- strew
- give birth to a litter of animals
- make a place messy by strewing garbage around
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
- (countable, collective) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.
- (countable, uncommon) A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
- (uncountable) Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
- (uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.
- (countable, loosely) Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.
- (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
- (uncountable) Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.
- (uncountable) The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.
- (medicine, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
- the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
- conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
verb
adj
noun
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
- plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
- a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
- (countable) A drinking straw.
- A straw owner.
- (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
- (figurative, chiefly in the negative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
- (uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
noun
- The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
- (computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
- (economics) the organization of production into different stages, which are divided among different suppliers often are located in different countries.
- (music) the use of fragments or the "division of a musical idea into segments".
- (computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.
- The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.
- (cytology) the process of splitting into several pieces or fragments, which is useful for a cell during both DNA cloning and apoptosis.
- (sociology, urban studies) the absence or underdevelopment of connections between a society and the grouping of certain of its members.
- (biology) A form of asexual reproduction or cloning where an organism splits into one or more pieces. Those pieces then become new individuals.
- the dissociation of energetically unstable molecular ions formed from passing the molecules mass spectrum.
- (surgery) the an operation that breaks of solid matter in a body part into pieces, such as kidney stones
- (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk
- the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes
- the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships
- separating something into fine particles
verb
- (transitive) To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
- (transitive) To sieve or strain (something).
- (transitive) [with through] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
- move as if through a sieve
- distinguish and separate out
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- check and sort carefully
noun
verb
noun
- The particles or radiation deflected in this manner.
- (computing) The sending of IP packets to essentially random addresses in response to incoming packets that have a spoofed origin.
- (physics) The deflection of particles or radiation through angles greater than 90 degrees to the original direction of travel.
- (military) A portion of the energy of electromagnetic radiation such as a laser or radio waves that is scattered back in the direction of the source of radiation by an obscurant.
verb
- To be diffused; to spread.
- To exhaust, to wear out.
- (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
- To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- (ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
- (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
- To consume, to use up (time).
- spend completely
- pay out
- use up a period of time in a specific way
noun
noun
- the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
- (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
- the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- The result of distributing; arrangement.
- (rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
- (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
- (mathematics, differential geometry) A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.
- An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
- The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
- (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
- (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
- (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
- An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
- The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
- (card games) The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
- (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
- (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
- Anything distributed; portion; share.
- (software) A set of bundled software components.
- (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
- (transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
- (intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
- (transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
- dash a liquid upon or against
- spot, splash, or soil
- rain gently
noun
- A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
- (figuratively) A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
- (figuratively) A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
verb
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive) To be dispersed upon.
- (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
- (slang, US) To leave.
- (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
- (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
- (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
- (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.
- cause to separate
- sow by scattering
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- distribute loosely
- strew or distribute over an area
noun
- The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- the property of being diffused or dispersed
- (physics, weather) Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
- The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
- (physics) The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.
- (marketing) The gradual spread and adoption of goods or services.
- (physics) The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.
- The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.
- (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration
- the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another
noun
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- A process of dispersing.
- The state of being dispersed.
- spreading widely or driving off
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- (physics) The separation of waves of different frequency in space or time; the amount of such separation.
- (medicine) The removal of inflammation.
- The degree of scatter of data.
noun
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- the property of being diffused or dispersed
- the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate
- The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.
noun
- the act of scattering
- A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
- (physics) The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.
- the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- spreading widely or driving off
- (elections) The total number of votes awarded to nonmajor or unlisted candidates.
verb
noun
- breaking up and scattering by dispersion
- The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
- A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
- (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.
noun
- A scattering.
- The action of the verb to sprinkle.
- A light shower of rain.
- A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
- the act of sprinkling or splashing water
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
verb
noun
- the act of scattering water about haphazardly
- a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
- the sound like water splashing
- a small quantity of something moist or liquid
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
- a patch of bright color
- An impact or impression.
- (wrestling) A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
- (computing, informal) A splash screen.
- (MLE, slang) A knife.
- (comics) A splash page.
- (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
- (journalism) A large, prominent headline or article.
- A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
- (military, slang) The shooting down of an aircraft over water.
- A small amount of liquid.
- A small amount (of color).
- (MLE, slang) The bleeding caused by a knife wound.
verb
- cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
- mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered
- dash a liquid upon or against
- soil or stain with a splashed liquid
- make a splashing sound
- walk through mud or mire
- strike and dash about in a liquid
- (transitive) To hit or expel liquid at.
- (transitive, MLE) To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.
- (intransitive) To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- (transitive) To hit or agitate (liquid) so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- (transitive) To spend (money).
- (transitive, nautical) To launch a ship.
- (military, slang) To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.
- (figurative) To roughly fill with color.
- (transitive) To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently.
- (intransitive) (of a liquid) To disperse suddenly as a result of an impulse; to splatter.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To destroy or disable something.
- (intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
- (intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- (transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
- (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
- break into many pieces
- cause to break into many pieces
- damage or destroy
noun
- The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
- (computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
- (economics) the organization of production into different stages, which are divided among different suppliers often are located in different countries.
- (music) the use of fragments or the "division of a musical idea into segments".
- (computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.
- The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.
- (cytology) the process of splitting into several pieces or fragments, which is useful for a cell during both DNA cloning and apoptosis.
- (sociology, urban studies) the absence or underdevelopment of connections between a society and the grouping of certain of its members.
- (biology) A form of asexual reproduction or cloning where an organism splits into one or more pieces. Those pieces then become new individuals.
- the dissociation of energetically unstable molecular ions formed from passing the molecules mass spectrum.
- (surgery) the an operation that breaks of solid matter in a body part into pieces, such as kidney stones
- (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk
- the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes
- the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships
- separating something into fine particles
noun
- the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
- (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
- the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- The result of distributing; arrangement.
- (rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
- (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
- (mathematics, differential geometry) A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.
- An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
- The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
- (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
- (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
- (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
- An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
- The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
- (card games) The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
- (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
- (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
- Anything distributed; portion; share.
- (software) A set of bundled software components.
- (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
- cause to become widely known
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- separate (light) into spectral rays
- distribute loosely
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noun
- A female guinea pig.
- A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
- (derogatory, slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.
- A female bear, she-bear.
- (military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
- A female pig.
- A sowbug.
- A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
- an adult female hog
verb
- (transitive) To scatter or spread.
- (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
- (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
- (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
- (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
- (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
- (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
- (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
- (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
- (business) To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
- (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
- cause to become widely known
- be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses
- cause to be distributed
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- release a publication
- spread throughout a given area
- be mathematically distributive
- give to several people
- distribute or disperse widely
- to arrange in a systematic order
verb
- To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
- (UK) To waste time.
- (ornithology, of a bird) To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
- To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
- To blow a short gust.
- To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
- To waffle, talk aimlessly.
- (intransitive) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
- (transitive) To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
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verb
- (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- (intransitive, transitive, debating slang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- become distributed or widespread
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- distribute or disperse widely
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread across or over
noun
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The act of spreading.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
- (debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- A numerical difference.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- An expanse of land.
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
- (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
- (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
- (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- Something that has been spread.
- (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- decorative cover for a bed
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
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verb
- (intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
- (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
- (transitive) To use up or waste; squander.
- (transitive) To drive away, disperse.
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
verb
- (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
- (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
- (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
- (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
- (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
- strew
- give birth to a litter of animals
- make a place messy by strewing garbage around
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noun
- (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
- (countable, collective) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.
- (countable, uncommon) A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
- (uncountable) Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
- (uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.
- (countable, loosely) Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.
- (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
- (uncountable) Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.
- (uncountable) The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.
- (medicine, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
- the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
- conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
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noun
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
- plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
- a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
- (countable) A drinking straw.
- A straw owner.
- (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
- (figurative, chiefly in the negative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
- (uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
verb
- (transitive) To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
- (transitive) To sieve or strain (something).
- (transitive) [with through] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
- move as if through a sieve
- distinguish and separate out
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- check and sort carefully
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- The particles or radiation deflected in this manner.
- (computing) The sending of IP packets to essentially random addresses in response to incoming packets that have a spoofed origin.
- (physics) The deflection of particles or radiation through angles greater than 90 degrees to the original direction of travel.
- (military) A portion of the energy of electromagnetic radiation such as a laser or radio waves that is scattered back in the direction of the source of radiation by an obscurant.
verb
- To be diffused; to spread.
- To exhaust, to wear out.
- (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
- To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- (ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
- (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
- To consume, to use up (time).
- spend completely
- pay out
- use up a period of time in a specific way
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verb
- (transitive) To be dispersed upon.
- (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
- (slang, US) To leave.
- (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
- (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
- (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
- (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.
- cause to separate
- sow by scattering
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- distribute loosely
- strew or distribute over an area
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
- (transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
- (intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
- (transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
- dash a liquid upon or against
- spot, splash, or soil
- rain gently
noun
- A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
- (figuratively) A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
- (figuratively) A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface