Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“scatters” is a form of

scatter

UK /ˈskætə/ · US /ˈskætɚ/ verb, noun

Forms scatters scattering scattered

  1. verb (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse. “The crowd scattered in terror.”
  2. verb (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling. “Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.”
  3. verb (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
  4. verb (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
  5. verb (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow. “to scatter hopes or plans”
  6. verb (transitive) To be dispersed upon. “Desiccated stalks scattered the fields.”
  7. verb (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to spread out a high number of hits or walks between innings so as not to give up a high number of runs
  8. verb (slang, US) To leave. “When the police showed up, I scattered.”
  9. noun The act of scattering or dispersing.
  10. noun A collection of dispersed objects.

Synonyms

spread scattering strewing disperse dissipate dispel break up spread out sprinkle dot dust

Etymology

From Middle English scateren, skateren, also schateren,
* probably a variant of shatter, which is imitative;
* or from Old English *sceaterian, probably akin to a dialect of Old Norse, possibly ultimately related to Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split, shatter”).
Compare Middle Dutch scheteren (“to scatter”), Low German schateren, Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”); and is apparently remotely akin to Ancient Greek σκεδάννυμι (skedánnumi, “scatter, disperse”). and Tocharian B kät- (“to scatter, sow seeds”). Doublet of shatter.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.
  2. verb To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse.
  3. verb To be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate; as, clouds scatter after a storm.

Etymology [OE. scateren. See Shatter.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “scatter”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “scatter” (best matches first).

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