Scattering vs Scatteringly - What's the difference?
scattering | scatteringly |
A small quantity of something occurring at irregular intervals and dispersed at random points,
(physics) The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.
in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering.
* {{quote-book, year=1908, author=Alice MacGowan, title=Judith of the Cumberlands, chapter=, edition=
, passage=She pushed cautiously down to the edge of the rocks where the bushes grew scatteringly , pretending to herself that she wanted a bit of wild geranium that flourished in a crevice far below the top. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree), title=The Riddle Of The Rocks, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The other men trooped along scatteringly , dodging under the low boughs of the stunted trees. }}
* {{quote-book, year=, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories, chapter=, edition=
, passage='My father went straight to the hiding-place in full sight of everybody, and got out the fish-hooks and brought them and flung them scatteringly over my head, so that they fell in glittering confusion on the platform at my lover's knee. }}
As a verb scattering
is .As a noun scattering
is a small quantity of something occurring at irregular intervals and dispersed at random points,.As an adverb scatteringly is
in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering.scattering
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(wikipedia scattering)Verb
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(en noun)- There will be a scattering of showers, with heavy rain in places.
scatteringly
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