slatters English
Verb
(head)
(slatter)
slatter English
Verb
( en verb)
To be careless, negligent, or awkward, especially with regard to dress and neatness.
To be wasteful.
- (Ray)
( Webster 1913) |
scatters English
Verb
(head)
(scatter)
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
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