Crossword clues for scattered
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Scattered \Scat"tered\, a.
Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
(Bot.) Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. [1913 Webster] -- Scat"tered*ly, adv. -- Scat"tered*ness, n.
Scatter \Scat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Scattering.] [OE. scateren. See Shatter.]
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To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.
And some are scattered all the floor about.
--Chaucer.Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?
--Dryden.Teach the glad hours to scatter, as they fly, Soft quiet, gentle love, and endless joy.
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To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse.
Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.
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Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like.
Syn: To disperse; dissipate; spread; strew.
Wiktionary
randomly distributed. v
(en-past of: scatter)
WordNet
adj. occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space; "scattered showers"; "scattered villages"
not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh" [syn: isolated, stray]
being distributed here and there without order; "scattered leaves littered the sidewalk"; "don't forget to pick up the clothes lying strewn all over the floor" [syn: strewn]
lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, unconnected]
Wikipedia
"Scattered" is the first episode of the second season of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series. It aired originally on the Sci Fi Channel on July 15, 2005.
In the episode, Commander William Adama is in critical condition following his shooting in the cliffhanger ending of the first season. Galactica is separated from the fleet during a Cylon attack, and Colonel Saul Tigh, now in command, must reunite them. He does this by ordering the ship's computers networked in defiance of Adama's standing orders. Cylon Centurions board Galactica. On Kobol, Cylons kill one of the survivors of the Raptor crash.
The episode received favorable critical reception.
Scattered is a rave party based in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1998 as a small 150 person event, it has grown over time to large-scale rave with happy hardcore, gabber and hard trance DJ's.
Scattered may refer to:
Scattered is a second compilation of demos, outtakes and rarities by alternative country band The Handsome Family. It was released 2010 through Handsome Family Music and is the sequel to 2002's Smothered and Covered.
"Scattered" is a song by the British rock band The Kinks. Written by Ray Davies, "Scattered" appeared as the sixteenth track from their album Phobia, and was the band's final original single (only to be followed by reissues of " You Really Got Me" and " Waterloo Sunset".)
Usage examples of "scattered".
But he is used to the forests and irregular hills north of Cyad itself-not the scattered farms and the grasslands of the east that are north of the Accursed Forest and the Great Canal that links the fertile lands between the rivers with Fyrad.
For this affrontery the villages have been burned and the ashes scattered, lest the sight of them displease you.
The area covered by the dot became a small delta of alluvium from one of the canyons with a few trees scattered across it.
There are extraordinary, unexplainable landmarks scattered across the face of this planet, astronomically aligned wonders, yet all pieces of a single, giant puzzle.
With intermittent desperation, they began to shoot over our barrage again, and the explosions of their rockets flashed at widely scattered points beyond.
The same bartender was behind the bar and mostly the same customers were scattered about the room, though this time around Bludgeon was absent.
The berries are attractive to small birds, who swallow them whole, and afterwards void the seeds, to germinate when thus scattered about.
Fungus still hung from his besoiled garments and his fine blond hair, and more was scattered on the floor, glowing dimly.
It may not be unpleasing to collect a few scattered instances relative to that subject without forgetting, however, that from the vanity of nations and the poverty of language, the vague appellation of city has been indifferently bestowed on Rome and upon Laurentum.
The outer garments of Jim Lockwoodand the coat of John Wilkes Boothall looking considerably the worse for wear, were scattered in various places around the room, some on a floor, some on one article of furniture or another.
Dun Lidjun pressed a bowtip against the floor, releasing the bowstring from the other tip with his thumb, then threw the bow toward the corner where the rest of the bow and arrows lay scattered.
In a loose mob, they spurred their ponies past the stymied cars and, brandishing their rifles above their heads, robes streaming in the wind like battle ensigns, they lunged up the steep bank into the open and galloped furiously on to the flank of the scattered Italian column.
Whenever I looked at him, I wanted to strangle him, so instead I looked around the courtroom, at the bailiff, the guards, at the bored reporters scattered in the otherwise empty seats, at the detectives sitting in the front row behind the prosecution table, Stone leaning back, arms stretched out, Breger hunched forward in weariness.
I do not call it a village or even an encampment, because it was only a wide glade in the forest, scattered with cooking-fire rings of blackened stones carelessly tossed together, and with sleeping furs spread over pallets stuffed with fir sprigs, and with various cookery implements and skins stretched on drying hoops and bits of harness, and with saying knives and brittling knives, and with the gnawed bones and other remains of past meals.
Coming over to pick up the scattered spoils, Brooke laughed as she made eye contact with Tif fany.