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Swatter vs Scatter - What's the difference?

swatter | scatter |

As a noun swatter

is something used to swat with short for a flyswatter.

As a verb scatter is

(ergative) to (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

swatter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something used to swat with. Short for a flyswatter.
  • Someone who swats.

    • Anagrams

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    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