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SCATTERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking orderly continuity
Example:
scattered thoughts
Synonyms:
confused; disconnected; disjointed; disordered; garbled; illogical; scattered; unconnected
Classified under:
Similar:
incoherent (without logical or meaningful connection)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space
Example:
scattered villages
Classified under:
Similar:
distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb scatter
Context examples:
Titan's numerous smaller lakes can be seen around the seas and scattered around the right side of the mosaic.
(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)
Everyone scattered like leaves before a gust of wind, and the quiet, happy household was broken up as suddenly as if the paper had been an evil spell.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
At the same time, the Sausage debris was scattered all around the inner parts of the Milky Way, creating the ‘bulge’ at the galaxy’s centre and the surrounding ‘stellar halo’.
(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)
Bright red patches of gas can be seen scattered through its swirling spiral arms, mixed with bright blue regions that contain newly forming stars.
(Lonely Galaxy Lost in Space, NASA)
The deposits are scattered across the moon’s dark volcanic plains and are characterized by a mixture of smooth, rounded, shallow mounds next to patches of rough, blocky terrain.
(Evidence for Young Lunar Volcanism, NASA)
A little way off, beyond a line of scattered juniper-trees, which marked the pathway to the church, a white, dim figure flitted in the direction of the tomb.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I remember one beautiful day, when the boats left early and the reports of the hunters’ guns grew dim and distant and died away as they scattered far and wide over the sea.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It lay scattered, in splintered shards, upon the grass.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They scattered far and wide over the country, and it was not till a week later that the last of the survivors gathered together in a lower valley and counted their losses.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
In the late afternoon he came upon scattered bones where the wolves had made a kill.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
