clutter — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A confused disordered jumble of things.

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   Beispiele

   He saw what a Clutter there was with Huge, Over-grown Pots, Pans, and Spits.

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   Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

2. Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.

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3. Clatter; confused noise.

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   October 14 1718, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift I hardly heard a word of news or politicks, except a little clutter about sending some impertinent presidents du parliament to prison

   It was then you might have heard a clutter: pots, pans and pitchers, mugs, jugs and jordens, all put themselves in motion at once[…]

4. A Sperner family.

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Verb

1. To fill something with clutter.

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   That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.

2. To clot or coagulate, like blood.

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   Beispiele

   It battereth and cluttereth into knots and balls

3. To make a confused noise; to bustle.

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   It [the goose] clutter'd here, it chuckled there; / It stirr'd the old wife's mettle: / She shifted in her elbow-chair, / And hurl'd the pan and kettle.

4. To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).

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Substantiv

1. a confused multitude of things

   Synonyme

   jumblemuddlefuddlemare's nestweltersmother

   Oberbegriffe

   disorderlinessdisorder

2. unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen

   Oberbegriffe

   radar echonoiseinterferencedisturbance

Verb

1. fill a space in a disorderly way

   Synonyme

   clutter up

   Antonyme

   unclutter

   Oberbegriffe

   fillfill upmake full