Slatters vs Scatters - What's the difference?
slatters | scatters |
(slatter)
To be careless, negligent, or awkward, especially with regard to dress and neatness.
To be wasteful.
(scatter)
(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.
As verbs the difference between slatters and scatters
is that slatters is third-person singular of slatter while scatters is third-person singular of scatter.slatters
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(head)slatter
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(en verb)- (Ray)
scatters
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(head)scatter
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(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
