clutter — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A confused disordered jumble of things.

   Uso

   • non numerabile

   Esempi

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

   Altri esempi (1)

   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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   • non numerabile

3. Clatter; confused noise.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • obsoleto
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   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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   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

Verbo

1. To fill something with clutter.

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   • transitivo

   Esempi

   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.

   Uso

   • intransitivo
   • obsoleto

   Esempi

   It battereth and cluttereth into knots and balls

3. To make a confused noise; to bustle.

   Uso

   • intransitivo

   Esempi

   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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   • intransitivo
   • transitivo

Sostantivo

1. a confused multitude of things

   Sinonimi

   jumblemuddlefuddlemare's nestweltersmother

   Termini più generali

   disorderlinessdisorder

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

   Termini più generali

   radar echonoiseinterferencedisturbance

Verbo

1. fill a space in a disorderly way

   Sinonimi

   clutter up

   Contrari

   unclutter

   Termini più generali

   fillfill upmake full