| 单词 | disperse |
| 释义 | disperse (once / 400 pages) v To make a crowd at a party disperse, you could take away the food, turn off the music and ask for volunteers to clean up. Disperse is to spread out people or things, making them move in different directions. Imagine yourself standing on a basketball court holding a cup packed tight with marbles. If you turn it over, the marbles will disperse across the floor, moving away from you in all directions. Another word for this is scatter. Don't confuse this word with disburse, which means to distribute money. Remember that false friends disperse when you cease to disburse. WORD FAMILYdisperse: dispersal, dispersed, disperses, dispersing, dispersion, dispersive+/dispersal: dispersals/dispersed: dispersedly/dispersion: dispersions/dispersive: dispersively USAGE EXAMPLESThe crowd dispersed and arriving police found the man dead from a gunshot wound just outside the recreation building. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) The “whatnots” are dispersed throughout the shop and include silverware, ceramics, clothing, books and trinkets. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) The mercury got a boost from a record-challenging El Niño event, a cyclical warming of the tropical Pacific, which dispersed heat around the globe. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1v move away from each other The crowds dispersed Syn|Hypo|Hyper dissipate, scatter, spread out aerosolise, aerosolize become dispersed as an aerosol breakscatter or part volleybe dispersed in a volley part, separate, split go one's own way; move apart 2v distribute loosely Syn|Hypo|Hyper dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle spray scatter in a mass or jet of droplets spraybe discharged in sprays of liquid plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swashdash a liquid upon or against splash, splosh, sprinklecause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force bespangledot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects aerosolise, aerosolizedisperse as an aerosol showerspray or sprinkle with atomise, atomizespray very finely mistspray finely or cover with mist syringespray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe puddlemake a puddle by splashing water slosh, slosh around, slush, slush aroundspill or splash copiously or clumsily saltsprinkle as if with salt drizzle, moistenmoisten with fine drops discharge pour forth or release 3v cause to separate disperse particles Syn|Hypo|Hyper break up, scatter backscatter scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes change integrity change in physical make-up 4v to cause to separate and go in different directions Syn|Hypo|Hyper break up, dispel, dissipate, scatter disband cause to break up or cease to function divide, separate make a division or separation 5v cause to become widely known Syn|Hypo|Hyper broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread circulate, go around, spread become widely known and passed on podcast distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer sowintroduce into an environment generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarizecater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use carry, runinclude as the content; broadcast or publicize air, bare, publicise, publicize make public 6v separate (light) into spectral rays the prosm disperses light Hyper separate divide into components or constituents |
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