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/ˈklʌtə(ɹ)/
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/ˈklʌtɚ/
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[ˈklʌɾɚ]
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ˈklʌtə(ɹ)
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ˈklʌtɚ
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Noun
A confused disordered jumble of things.
Usage- Uncountable
- Examples
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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.
Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
Usage- Uncountable
Clatter; confused noise.
Usage- Countable
- Obsolete
- Uncountable
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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[…]
A Sperner family.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
Verb
To fill something with clutter.
Usage- Transitive
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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.
To clot or coagulate, like blood.
Usage- Intransitive
- Obsolete
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It battereth and cluttereth into knots and balls
To make a confused noise; to bustle.
Usage- Intransitive
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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.
To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).
Usage- Intransitive
- Transitive
Noun
a confused multitude of things
- Broader terms
unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen
- Broader terms
Verb
fill a space in a disorderly way
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