Synonyms of the word

scattering

• v. present participle of scatter.
• n. A small quantity of something occurring at irregular intervals and dispersed at random points.
• n. (physics) The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.

action

• n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
• n. A way of motion or functioning.
• n. A fast-paced activity.
• n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
• n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
• n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
• n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
• n. (military) Combat.
• n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
• n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
• n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
• n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
• n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
• n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
• interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
• v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

activity

• n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
• n. Something done as an action or a movement.
• n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
• n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

diffusing

• v. present participle of diffuse.

diffusive

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or caused by diffusion.

dispersion

• n. The state of being dispersed; dispersedness.
• n. A process of dispersing.
• n. The degree of scatter of data.
• n. (optics) The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.
• n. (medicine) The removal of inflammation.

dispersive

• adj. That becomes dispersed.
• adj. That causes dispersion.

disseminating

• v. present participle of disseminate.

disseminative

• adj. Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated.

distributive

• adj. Relating to distribution.
• adj. Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
• adj. (mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to…
• adj. (logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
• adj. (grammar) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
• n. (grammar) A distributive adjective or pronoun.
• n. (mathematics) A distributive numeral.

scatter

• v. (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
• v. (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
• v. (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
• v. (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
• v. (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
• v. (transitive) To be dispersed upon.

shower

• n. A brief fall of precipitation.
• n. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by…
• n. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
• n. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
• n. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
• n. (obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.
• n. (chiefly Ireland, Britain, Australia, pejorative) A shower of shit.
• n. (chiefly Ireland, euphemistic, pejorative, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer…
• v. (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
• v. To bathe using a shower.
• v. to bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.
• n. One who shows.
• n. (slang) A man whose penis appears roughly full size both when flaccid and when erect.

spread

• v. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
• v. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
• v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
• v. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
• v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
• v. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
• v. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
• v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
• n. The act of spreading.
• n. Something that has been spread.
• n. An expanse of land.
• n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
• n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
• n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
• n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams.
• n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
• n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
• n. A numerical difference.
• n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
• n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery…
• n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of…
• n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
• n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
• n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
• n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

spreading

• v. present participle of spread.
• n. The act by which something is spread.

sprinkle

• v. (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for…
• v. (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
• v. (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
• v. (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse;…
• n. A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
• n. A light rain shower.

sprinkling

• v. present participle of sprinkle.
• n. The action of the verb to sprinkle.
• n. A small amount of (some liquid, powder or other fine substance) that is sprinkled on to something.
• n. A light shower of rain.

strewing

• v. present participle of strew.
• n. The act of scattering or spreading.