单词 | scatteration |
释义 | scatterationn. The action of scattering. Also, the fact or condition of being scattered. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [noun] > action of scattering or becoming scattered scattering1382 dispersionc1450 upsparplinga1560 dispersing1604 distraction1618 scatteration1776 dispersal1821 deconcentration1889 shattering1960 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > driving away in all directions sparpling1434 dispersionc1450 skailing?c1450 sparklingc1460 disparplinga1513 dissipation1545 dispersing1604 segregationa1616 scatteration1776 disjectiona1806 dispersal1821 scatteraway1851 spreadeagling1869 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > breaking into pieces or shattering shiveringc1400 truncheoning1477 upbreaking1493 confraction?1541 refraction1578 splinting1598 diffraction1654 hatchet work1697 shattering1748 exploding1791 smash1808 explosion1811 splintering1815 blasting1824 shatterment1841 scatteration1880 smashing1886 the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [noun] spreadinga1250 skeltingc1540 diffusion1585 prosemination1611 scatter1642 dissemination1646 radiation1658 dispersion1664 spread1757 distribution1860 dispersal1863 scatteration1892 spreadation1925 the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [noun] > of that which should be concentrated scatteration1900 1776 A. Grant Let. 15 Feb. in Lett. from Mountains (1806) I. 212 After the dissolution and scatteration of last year's happy trio. 1865 N.Y. Times 25 Feb. The scatteration of Cobb's forces. 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xix. 183 A raft..hit the pier in the center and went all to smash and scatteration like a box of matches struck by lightning. 1892 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 40 A household spreads itself over plots, maybe, a quarter of a mile apart. A revenue map of a village shows that this scatteration is apparently designed. 1900 Engin. Mag. 19 750/2 Scatteration of effort is dissipation of energy. 1910 Blackwood's Mag. July 24/1 Here there is a scatteration, but the tufters..are stopped and laid on to the line of a single stag. 1930 R. Fraser Rose Anstey xlix. 328 At night she stared from her bed at a great scatteration of stars. 1936 Burlington Mag. June 261/1 The gilt frame of the mirror is not a strong enough colour to correct the consequent scatteration. 1965 Economist 6 Feb. 509 A growing desire to end what Mr Walter Lippmann calls ‘globalism and scatteration’ in foreign policy in favour of a concentration on America's ‘primary vital interests’. 1965 D. Owen Eng. Philanthropy iv. xx. 559 ‘Scatteration’ philanthropy—spending too small amounts on too many agencies or individuals. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1776 |
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