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scattered meaning

EN[ˈskætɚd] [ˈskætəd]
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  • Scattered may refer to:
  • Scattered (rave), a rave party based in Sydney, Australia
  • Scattered radiation
  • "Scattered" (Battlestar Galactica), a 2005 Battlestar Galactica episode
  • Scattered (album), a 2010 album by The Handsome Family
  • Scattered (song), a song by Ace Young
  • "Scattered", a song by Green Day from Nimrod

    Definition of scattered in English Dictionary

  • VerbSUF-red
    1. simple past tense and past participle of scatter.
    2. AdjectiveCOMmore scatteredSUPmost scattered
      1. Randomly distributed.
        1. There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
      2. (meteorology, of clouds) covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
        1. (meteorology, of precipitation) affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • It had a slight rasp, soft subtones in the low notes and even control through the registers; he scattered stylized shakes of vibrato all through his playing.
            • “Lojbanistan” is both an imaginary country where Lojban is the native language, and a term for the actual community of Lojbanspeakers, scattered over the world.
            • The storehouses at Talcahuano had been burst open, and great bags of cotton, yerba, and other valuable merchandise were scattered on the shore.
          2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
            • Scattered 70S ribosomes and a plastoglobulus can be seen between the thylakoid stacks in C1.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Adjectives
            • Verbs
              • Verb forms
                • Participles
                  • Past participles
                  • Verb simple past forms
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              1. en scatteredly
              2. en scatteredness
              3. en scattered disc
              4. en scattered shower
              5. en scattered showers
              Source: Wiktionary

              Meaning of scattered for the defined word.

              Grammatically, this word "scattered" is an adjective. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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