Dispersed

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dispersed \Dis*persed"\, a.
     Scattered. -- {Dis*pers"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*pers"ed*ness},
     n.
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     {Dispersed harmony} (Mus.), harmony in which the tones


        composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave
        or more.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disperse \Dis*perse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dispersed}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Dispersing}.] [L. dispersus, p. p. of dispergere to
     strew, scatter. See {Sparse}.]
     1. To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to
        distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are
        dispersed among all nations.
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              The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. --Prov. xv.
                                                    7.
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              Two lions, in the still, dark night,
              A herd of beeves disperse.            --Cowper.
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     2. To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to
        disperse vapors.
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              Dispersed are the glories.            --Shak.
  
     Syn: To scatter; dissipate; dispel; spread; diffuse;
          distribute; deal out; disseminate.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dispersed
       adj : distributed or spread over a considerable extent; "has ties
             with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million
             Jews are spread throughout Europe" [syn: {spread}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "dispersed":
     aimless, alienated, amorphous, broadcast, capricious, casual,
     deflected, deflective, desultory, detached, diffracted,
     diffractive, diffuse, diffused, disarticulated, disconnected,
     discontinuous, discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint,
     disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, disordered, dispread,
     disproportionate, disseminated, dissipated, distorted, distributed,
     disunited, divided, divorced, erratic, estranged, fitful,
     flectional, flexed, formless, frivolous, gratuitous, haphazard,
     hit-or-miss, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate,
     inflective, irregular, isolated, meaningless, misshapen,
     nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, planless,
     promiscuous, random, refracted, refractile, refractive,
     refrangible, removed, scattered, segregated, senseless, separated,
     sequestered, shapeless, shut off, skew, skewed, sparse, spasmodic,
     sporadic, spread, straggling, straggly, strewn, strown, systemless,
     unarranged, unclassified, undirected, ungraded, unjoined,
     unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unsorted, unsymmetrical,
     unsystematic, ununiform, vague, wandering, widespread