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Smatters vs Scatters - What's the difference?

smatters | scatters |

As verbs the difference between smatters and scatters

is that smatters is (smatter) while scatters is (scatter).

smatters

English

Verb

(head)
  • (smatter)

    • Anagrams

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    smatter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To talk superficially; to babble.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Of state affairs you cannot smatter .
  • To speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge.
    • to smatter Arabic
  • (figuratively) To study or approach superficially; to dabble in.
  • To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.

    • Derived terms

    * smatterer * smattering

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • superficial knowledge; a smattering

    • Anagrams

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    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