Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 21
Scatter (v. t.) 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. -- Shak.
Scatter (v. t.) Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like.
Syn: To disperse; dissipate; spread; strew.
Scatter (v. i.) 消散；分散；潰散；零落地出現 To be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate; as, clouds scatter after a storm.
Scatter (n.) 消散；分散；潰散 [U]；散播；撒播 [U] A haphazard distribution in all directions [syn: {scatter}, {spread}].
Scatter (n.) The act of scattering [syn: {scatter}, {scattering}, {strewing}].
Scatter (v.) To cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds" [syn: {disperse}, {dissipate}, {dispel}, {break up}, {scatter}].
Scatter (v.) Move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"; [syn: {disperse}, {dissipate}, {scatter}, {spread out}].
Scatter (v.) Distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon" [syn: {scatter}, {sprinkle}, {dot}, {dust}, {disperse}].
Scatter (v.) Sow by scattering; "scatter seeds."
Scatter (v.) Cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles" [syn: {break up}, {disperse}, {scatter}].
Scatter (v.) Strew or distribute over an area; "He spread fertilizer over the lawn"; "scatter cards across the table" [syn: {spread}, {scatter}, {spread out}].
Scatter-brain (n.) A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention. [Written also scatter-brains.]
Scatter-brained (a.) 思想不集中的；輕率的 Giddy; thoughtless.
Shatter-brained, Shatter-pated (a.) Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild; similar to scatter-brained. -- J. Goodman.
Scattered (a.) 散亂的；散布的；scatter 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
Scattered (a.) (Bot.) Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. -- {Scat"tered*ly}, adv. -- {Scat"tered*ness}, n.
Scattered (a.) Occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space; "scattered showers"; "scattered villages."
Scattered (a.) 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}, {scattered}, {unconnected}].
Scattergood (n.) 揮霍無度者；大肆揮霍的人 One who wastes; a spendthrift.
Scattergood (n.) Someone who spends money prodigally [syn: spendthrift, spend-all, spender, scattergood].
Scattering (a.) Going or falling in various directions; not united or aggregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
Scattering (n.) Act of strewing about; something scattered. -- South.
Scatteringly (adv.) In a scattering manner; dispersedly.
Scatterling (n.) One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond.
Scaturient (a.) 湧出的；流出的 Gushing forth; full to overflowing; effusive. [R.]
A pen so scaturient and unretentive. -- Sir W. Scott.
Compare: Unretentive
Unretentive (a.) 沒有記憶力的；不保留的 Not retentive.
Compare: Retentive
Retentive (a.) (Of a person's memory) 保持的；記性好的 Effective in retaining facts and impressions.
‘He had a highly retentive memory and was an accomplished speaker.’
Retentive (a.) (Of a substance) Able to absorb and hold moisture.
‘Soil should be rich and moisture retentive.’
Retentive (a.) [Medicine] Serving to keep something in place.
‘Most children with encopresis have retentive encopresis, meaning that the soiling or seepage results because soft or liquid stool is leaking around firmer stool trapped in the colon.’
Scaturiginous (a.) Abounding with springs.
Scaup (n.) A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp. [Scot.]
Scaup (n.) (Zool.) A scaup duck. See below.
Scaup duck (Zool.), Any one of several species of northern ducks of the genus Aythya, or Fuligula. The adult males are, in large part, black. The three North American species are: the greater scaup duck ({Aythya marila, var. nearctica), called also broadbill, bluebill, blackhead, flock duck, flocking fowl, and raft duck; the lesser scaup duck ({Aythya affinis}), called also little bluebill, river broadbill, and shuffler; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck ({Aythya collaris), called also black jack, ringneck, ringbill, ringbill shuffler, etc. See Illust. of Ring-necked duck, under Ring-necked. The common European scaup, or mussel, duck ({Aythya marila), closely resembles the American variety.
Scaup (n.) Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill [syn: scaup, scaup duck, bluebill, broadbill].
Scauper (n.) A tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving. -- Fairholt.
Scauper (n.) A graver used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal [syn: scauper, scorper].
Scar (n.) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth. [Written also scaur.]
O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing. -- Tennyson.
Scaur (n.) A precipitous bank or rock; a scar.
Scavage (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts. -- Cowell.
Scavenge (v. t.) 在……中搜尋有用之物 To cleanse, as streets, from filth. -- C. Kingsley.
Scavenge (v. t.) To salvage (usable items or material) from discarded or waste material.
Scavenge (v. t.) To remove the burned gases from the cylinder after a working stroke.
Scavenge (v. i.) (Internal-combustion Engines) 清除汙物（或垃圾） To remove the burned gases from the cylinder after a working stroke; as, this engine does not scavenge well.
Scavenge (v.) Clean refuse from; "Scavenge a street."
Scavenge (v.) Collect discarded or refused material; "She scavenged the garbage cans for food" [syn: salvage, scavenge].
Scavenge (v.) Feed on carrion or refuse; "hyenas scavenge."
Scavenge (v.) Remove unwanted substances from [syn: scavenge, clean].
Scavenger (n.) 清掃工；食腐動物；拾荒者；對骯髒事物有嗜趣者 A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health.
Scavenger beetle (Zool.), Any beetle which feeds on decaying substances, as the carrion beetle.
Scavenger crab (Zool.), Any crab which feeds on dead animals, as the spider crab.
Scavenger's daughter [Corrupt. of Skevington's daughter], An instrument of torture invented by Sir W. Skevington, which so compressed the body as to force the blood to flow from the nostrils, and sometimes from the hands and feet. -- Am. Cyc.
Scavenger (n.) A chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities.
Scavenger (n.) Someone who collects things that have been discarded by others [syn: magpie, scavenger, pack rat].
Scavenger (n.) Any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter.
Scazon (n.) (Lat. Pros.) A choliamb.
Scelerat (n.) A villain; a criminal. [Obs.] -- Cheyne.
Scelestic (a.) Evil; wicked; atrocious. [Obs.] "Scelestic villainies." -- Feltham.
Scelet (n.) A mummy; a skeleton. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Scena (n.) (Mus.) A scene in an opera.
Scena (n.) (Mus.) An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria. -- Rockstro.
Scenario (n.) [It.]【義】情節；劇本；事態；局面 A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.
Scenario (n.) An outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work).
Scenario (n.) A setting for a work of art or literature; "the scenario is France during the Reign of Terror."
Scenario (n.) A postulated sequence of possible events; "planners developed several scenarios in case of an attack."
Scenario (n.) A written outline of a film, novel, or stage work giving details of the plot and individual scenes.
‘The scenarios for four short stories.’
Scenario (n.) A postulated sequence or development of events.
‘A possible scenario is that he was attacked after opening the front door.’
Scenario (n.) A setting, in particular for a work of art or literature.
‘The scenario is World War Two.’
Scenary (n.) Scenery. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Scene (v. t.) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display. [Obs.]
Scene (n.) （戲劇的）一場；（電影，電視的）一個鏡頭 [C]；場面；事件 [C]；景色，景象；（舞臺）布景 [C] The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage.
Scene (n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes.
Scene (n.) So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.
My dismal scene I needs must act alone. -- Shak.
Scene (n.) The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action. "In Troy, there lies the scene." -- Shak.
The world is a vast scene of strife. -- J. M. Mason.
Scene (n.) An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.
Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! -- Addison.
Scene (n.) A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn. -- Dryden.
Scene (n.) An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; often, an artifical or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.
Probably no lover of scenes would have had very long to wait for some explosions between parties, both equally ready to take offense, and careless of giving it. -- De Quincey.
Behind the scenes, behind the scenery of a theater; out of the view of the audience, but in sight of the actors, machinery, etc.; hence, conversant with the hidden motives and agencies of what appears to public view.
Scene (n.) The place where some action occurs; "the police returned to the scene of the crime."
Scene (n.) An incident (real or imaginary); "their parting was a sad scene."
Scene (n.) The visual percept of a region; "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views" [syn: view, aspect, prospect, scene, vista, panorama].
Scene (n.) A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film [syn: scene, shot].
Scene (n.) A situation treated as an observable object; "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century" [syn: picture, scene].
Scene (n.) A subdivision of an act of a play; "the first act has three scenes."
Scene (n.) A display of bad temper; "he had a fit"; "she threw a tantrum"; "he made a scene" [syn: fit, tantrum, scene, conniption].
Scene (n.) Graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept; "he painted scenes from everyday life"; "figure 2 shows photographic and schematic views of the equipment" [syn: scene, view].
Scene (n.) The context and environment in which something is set; "the perfect setting for a ghost story" [syn: setting, scene].
Scene (n.) The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale; "they worked all night painting the scenery" [syn: scenery, scene].
Sceneful (a.) Having much scenery. [R.]
Scenemen (n. pl. ) of Sceneman.
Sceneman (n.) The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.
Scenery (n.) [U] 風景，景色；【戲】舞臺布景 Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.
Scenery (n.) Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc.
Never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery. -- W. Irving.
Scenery (n.) The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale; "they worked all night painting the scenery" [syn: scenery, scene].
Scenery (n.) The appearance of a place.
Sceneshifter (n.) One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.
Scenic (a.) Alt. of Scenical.
Scenical (a.) 風景的；景色秀麗的；描繪實景的 [Z]；舞臺的；舞臺布景的；舞臺效果的 [Z] Of or pertaining to scenery; of the nature of scenery; theatrical.
All these situations communicate a scenical animation to the wild romance, if treated dramatically. -- De Quincey.
Scenic (a.) Used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery; "scenic drives."
Scenic (a.) Of or relating to the stage or stage scenery; "scenic design."
Scenograph (n.) A perspective representation or general view of an object.
Scenographic (a.) Alt. of Scenographical.
Scenographical (a.) Of or pertaining to scenography; drawn in perspective.
Scenography (n.) The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye.
Scented (imp. & p. p.) of Scent.
Scenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scent.
Scent (v. t.) To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
Methinks I scent the morning air. -- Shak.
Scent (v. t.) To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
Balm from a silver box distilled around, Shall all bedew the roots, and scent the sacred ground. -- Dryden.
Scent (v. i.) To have a smell. [Obs.]
Thunderbolts . . . do scent strongly of brimstone. -- Holland.
Scent (v. i.) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
Scent (n.) That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.
With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial. -- Prior.
Scent (n.) Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.
He gained the observations of innumerable ages, and traveled upon the same scent into Ethiopia. -- Sir W. Temple.
Scent (n.) The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent. -- I. Watts.
Scent (n.) A distinctive odor that is pleasant [syn: aroma, fragrance, perfume, scent].
Scent (n.) An odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced.
Scent (n.) Any property detected by the olfactory system [syn: olfactory property, smell, aroma, odor, odour, scent].
Scent (v.) Cause to smell or be smelly [syn: odorize, odourise, scent] [ant: deodorise, deodorize, deodourise].
Scent (v.) Catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs" [syn: scent, nose, wind].
Scent (v.) Apply perfume to; "She perfumes herself every day" [syn: perfume, scent].
Scentful (a.) Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." -- W. Browne.
Scentful (a.) Of quick or keen smell.
The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. -- W. Browne.
Scentingly (adv.) By scent. [R.] -- Fuller.
Scentless (a.) Having no scent.
The scentless and the scented rose. -- Cowper.
Scentless (a.) Lacking the sense of smell [ant: scented]
Scentless (a.) Emitting or holding no odor; "scentless wisps of straw"; "a scentless stretch of rocky ground."
Scepsis (n.) Skepticism; skeptical philosophy. [R.]
Among their products were the system of Locke, the scepsis of Hume, the critical philosophy of Kant. -- J. Martineau. Scepter
Scepter (n.) Alt. of Sceptre.
Sceptre (n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.
And the king held out Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. -- Esther v. 2.
Sceptre (n.) Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come. -- Gen. xlix. 10. Scepter
Sceptered (imp. & p. p.) of Sceptre.
Sceptred () of Sceptre.
Sceptering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sceptre.
Sceptring () of Sceptre.
Scepter (v. t.) Alt. of Sceptre.
Sceptre (v. t.) To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.
To Britain's queen the sceptered suppliant bends. -- Tickell.
Scepter (n.) The imperial authority symbolized by a scepter [syn: scepter, sceptre].
Scepter (n.) A ceremonial or emblematic staff [syn: scepter, sceptre, verge, wand].
Scepter (n.) A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority.
It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the
bones of their proponents.
Scepterellate (a.) (Zool.) Having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. under Spicule. Scepterless
Scepterless (a.) Alt. of Sceptreless.
Sceptreless (a.) Having no scepter; without authority; powerless; as, a scepterless king. Sceptical; Sceptic
Sceptic, Sceptical, Scepticism, etc. See Skeptic, Skeptical, Skepticism, etc.
Sceptic (n.) Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs [syn: skeptic, sceptic, doubter].
Sceptic () Alt. of Scepticism.
Sceptical () Alt. of Scepticism.
Scepticism () etc. See Skeptic, Skeptical, Skepticism, etc.
Skepticism (n.) [Cf. F. scepticisme.] [Written also scepticism.] 懷疑論；懷疑的態度 An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.
That momentary amazement, and irresolution, and confusion, which is the result of skepticism. -- Hune.
Skepticism (n.) (Metaph.) The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles.
Skepticism (n.) (Theol.) A doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the Christian religion, or of the being, perfections, or truth of God.
Let no . . . secret skepticism lead any one to doubt whether this blessed prospect will be realized. -- S. Miller.
Scepticism (n.) The disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge [syn: agnosticism, skepticism, scepticism].
Skepticism (n.) Doubt about the truth of something [syn: incredulity, disbelief, skepticism, mental rejection].
Skepticism (n.) The disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge [syn: agnosticism, skepticism, scepticism].
Sceptral (a.) Of or pertaining to a scepter; like a scepter.
Scern (v. t.) To discern; to perceive.
Schade (n.) Shade; shadow.
Schadenfreude (n.) [ U ] 幸災樂禍 A feeling of pleasure or satisfaction when something bad happens to someone else.
Schah (n.) See Shah.
Schediasm (n.) Cursory writing on a loose sheet.
Schedule (n.) A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.
Schedule (v. t.) To form into, or place in, a schedule.
Scheele's green () See under Green.
Scheelin (n.) Scheelium.
Scheelite (n.) Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.
Scheelium (n.) The metal tungsten.
Scheik (n.) See Sheik.
Schelly (n.) The powan.
Schemata (n. pl. ) of Schema.
Schemas (n. pl. ) of Schema.
Schema (n.) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect.
Schematic (a.) Of or pertaining to a scheme or a schema.
Schematism (n.) (Astrol.) 圖式論；系組性組合 Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.
Schematism (n.) Particular form or disposition of a thing; an exhibition in outline of any systematic arrangement.
Schematist (n.) One given to forming schemes; a projector; a schemer. -- Swift.
Schematize (v. i.) To form a scheme or schemes.
Schematize (v.) Formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula; "The chemists schematized the various reactions in a coherent fashion."
Schematize (v.) Give conventional form to; "some art forms schematise designs into geometrical patterns" [syn: schematize, schematise].
Scheme (n.) A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
The appearance and outward scheme of things. -- Locke.
Such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity. -- Atterbury.
Arguments . . . sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy. -- J. Edwards.
The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life. -- Macaulay.