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Scatter vs Deal_out - What's the difference?

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Scatter is a related term of deal_out.


As verbs the difference between scatter and deal_out

is that scatter is (ergative) to (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse while deal_out is (card games) to not deal cards to someone who is leaving a game.

scatter

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
    • the police scattered the crowds
    the crowd scattered
  • * Shakespeare
    • Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.
  • To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
    • Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.
  • * Dryden
    • Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?
  • (physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
  • To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
  • To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
    • to scatter hopes or plans

    Derived terms

    * scatterbrain * scatterplot * scattershot

    deal_out

    English

    Verb

  • (card games) to not deal cards to someone who is leaving a game.
    • Deal me out of this round: I have to make a phone call.
    English phrasal verbs