clutter English
Noun
( -)
A confused disordered jumble of things.
* L'Estrange
- He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
, title= An Acoustic Arms Race
, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=( American Scientist)
, passage=Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter' by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the ' clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
(obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.
- (Jonathan Swift)
Background echos, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
(countable) A group of cats;
* 2008 , John Robert Colombo, The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories , Introduction
- Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification.
Derived terms
* surface clutter
* volume clutter
Verb
( en verb)
To fill something with .
*{{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=( The Economist)
citation
, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.}}
(obsolete) To clot or coagulate, like blood.
- (Holland)
To make a confused noise; to bustle.
* Tennyson
- It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there.
( Webster 1913)
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tousled English
Adjective
( en adjective)
(of hair etc) unkempt, disheveled or in disarray
Verb
(head)
(tousle)
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