Scatter vs Collect - What's the difference?
scatter | collect |
(ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
* Shakespeare
To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
* Dryden
(physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
To gather together; amass.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To get; particularly, get from someone.
To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare (gather), (get).)
* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 292-3:
* John Locke
To collect payments.
To come together in a group or mass.
To collect objects as a hobby.
To infer; to conclude.
* South
To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
With payment due from the recipient.
(en noun) (sometimes capitalized)
(Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
In transitive terms the difference between scatter and collect
is that scatter is to distribute loosely as by sprinkling while collect is to infer; to conclude.In intransitive terms the difference between scatter and collect
is that scatter is to occur or fall at widely spaced intervals while collect is to collect objects as a hobby.As verbs the difference between scatter and collect
is that scatter is to (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse while collect is to gather together; amass.As an adjective collect is
to be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.As an adverb collect is
with payment due from the recipient.As a noun collect is
the prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.scatter
English
Verb
(en verb)- the police scattered the crowds
- the crowd scattered
- Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.
- Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.
- Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?
- to scatter hopes or plans
Derived terms
* scatterbrain * scatterplot * scattershotcollect
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) collecten, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
- the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.
- which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected .
- Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
Adjective
(-)- It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
Adverb
(-)- I had to call collect .
Derived terms
* call collect * collect one's thoughts * collect one's wits * collect up * collectible * collection * collector * recollect, recollectionEtymology 2
(Wikipedia) From (etyl) .Noun
- He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.