Crossword clues for clutter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clutter \Clut"ter\, v. t. [From Clod, n.]
To clot or coagulate, as blood. [Obs.]
--Holland.
Clutter \Clut"ter\, v. i. To make a confused noise; to bustle.
It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there.
--Tennyson.
Clutter \Clut"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cluttered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cluttering.] To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.
Clutter \Clut"ter\, n. [Cf. W. cludair heap, pile, cludeirio to heap.]
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A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.
He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits.
--L'Estrange. Clatter; confused noise.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "to collect in heaps," variant of clotern "to form clots, to heap on" (c.1400); related to clot (n.). Sense of "to litter" is first recorded 1660s. Related: Cluttered; cluttering.
1570s, "things lying in heaps or confusion," from clutter (v.); the "litter" sense is from 1660s.
Wiktionary
n. A confused disordered jumble of things. vb. To fill something with clutter#Noun.
WordNet
n. a confused multitude of things [syn: jumble, muddle, mare's nest, welter, smother]
unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen
v. fill a space in a disorderly way [syn: clutter up] [ant: unclutter]
Wikipedia
Clutter may refer to any of the following:
Advertising or marketing clutter refers to the large volume of advertising messages that the average consumer is exposed to on a daily basis. This phenomenon results from a marketplace that is overcrowded with products leading to huge competition for customers.
Marketing clutter is a major problem for marketers and advertisers, as it is becoming increasingly difficult to be noticed using conventional mass-media. This intense competition has led to the emergence of more innovative methods of promoting businesses such as guerrilla marketing, viral marketing and experiential marketing.
- Viral marketing
Clutter is a term used for unwanted echoes in electronic systems, particularly in reference to radars. Such echoes are typically returned from ground, sea, rain, animals/insects, chaff and atmospheric turbulences, and can cause serious performance issues with radar systems.
Clutter is the debut studio album by Laki Mera. In December 2007, prior to its official release on CD in April 2008, the band made the album available for free download via their record label, Rhythm of Life's website. The album was critically well-received, getting a 5 star review from The Herald newspaper, and the risky strategy of offering it for free proved beneficial to the band, providing them with exposure and increasing their audience.
Clutter is a GObject-based graphics library for creating hardware-accelerated user interfaces. Clutter is an OpenGL-based 'interactive canvas' library and does not contain any graphical control elements. It relies upon OpenGL (1.4+) or OpenGL ES (1.1 or 2.0) for rendering,. It also supports media playback using GStreamer and 2D graphics rendering using Cairo.
Clutter was authored by OpenedHand Ltd, now part of Intel. Clutter is free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1.
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.