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clutter
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Word definitions for clutter in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. fill a space in a disorderly way [syn: clutter up ] [ant: unclutter ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Clutter may refer to any of the following:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clutter \Clut"ter\, v. t. [From Clod , n.] To clot or coagulate, as blood. [Obs.] --Holland.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "things lying in heaps or confusion," from clutter (v.); the "litter" sense is from 1660s.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cluttered (= covered with papers, books etc in an untidy way ) ▪ His desk is so cluttered he can't find anything. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB up ▪ It can remove the deposits of pigment that clutter up old cells ...
Usage examples of clutter.
Ademos, climbing the cliff like ants making their way up a step, came a score of Archai cluttering in metallic voices.
About twenty miles from Tel Aviv she passed through Netanya, a cluttered little resort town set on cliffs above the beach.
White, clean, cluttered with utensils, family employees running back and forth with dishes and fairly tight quarters.
I was kicking myself for my illogical fears, until I noticed Alicia also peering out at the Beanstalk, as though trying to see past the clutter of equipment there to the cable itself.
Old work clothes, my writing tools, my bootjack, and other clutter and possessions burned in the hearth.
The bathroom counter was a clutter of jars and bottles: Alba Botanica lotion, cotton puffs in a glass jar, soap balls, a basket of dusty pinecones, a blue box of Tampax Super Plus, an LAPD coffee mug holding a toothbrush and a wilted tube of Crest.
Its contents were as close to clutter as Emily Buttonwood seemed to have gotten.
She looks at the velvet-draped boxes where they perch, at the clutter of bronze maquettes and camphorwood boxes and onyx eggs on the Queen Anne side tables and the family portraits dragged in from under the rafters and propped against the violently patterned wallpaper.
While Dixon was oblivious to this, Cerro shot the duty officer a dirty look while Command Sergeant Major Duncan grabbed the operations sergeant by the arm and quietly reprimanded him for failing to keep the duty desk neat and clear of unnecessary trash and clutter.
She waved a cluttered hand towards the centre of the hall and Claribel perforce followed its direction.
Even if you clean your cluttered desk, decreasing its entropy, the total entropy, including that of your body and the air in the room, actually increases.
By noon the quarry was so cluttered with blocks that I ordered half the help to take axes and go to the encinal to cut dry oak wood for burning the lime.
Next to the rack stood a huge, ornately carved etagere, its glass shelves cluttered with silver bowls, cups, and trophies, as well as a number of gold-plated cricket balls.
A glance at the sitting-room, with its shawls and scarves showered over the furniture, and the multilayered clutter deposited as if by flashflood, told Cora that Pearl was no keeper of secrets.
There were a few high-tech looking gadgets cluttered about but not much else, except for Fora, who was sitting in the middle of the room at a huge grand piano.