As usual the peasants are busy scattering grain seeds.
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Scattering
/ˈskætəɹɪŋ/
Synonyms for "scattering" (126 found)
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Noun(9 words)
diffusiondiffusivedilutiondiscontinuitydiscretenessdisintegrationdisjunctiondislocationdisorderdispensationdispersaldispersiondispersivedisruptiondisseminationdisseminativedissipationdissipativedissolutiondistribution
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Verb(1 words)
disperse light
Related words (63)
expansionfewfragmentationhandfulhintincoherenceinconsistencylimited numbernonadhesionnoncohesiononly a fewpepperingpiddling fewpiddling numberpropagationpublicationradianceradiationradiusray
Noun(15 words)
mapplotredirectredistributionscatterscatter of seedsscatter patternscatteredseed broadcastingsowsplatteringsprinklesprinklingstrewstrewing
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25 entriesactionactivitydescriptive termdiffusiondispersedistributedistributiondistribution patterninteractionnatural actionnatural processpatternphenomenonphysical descriptorphysical processpresent data
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14 entriesCompton scatteringMie scatteringRaman scatteringRayleigh scatteringelastic scatteringinelastic scatteringisotropic scatteringpatchy distributionrandom scatteringscatter matrixscatter plotsparse scatteringspatial dispersionuniform scattering
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9 entriesMie scatteringRaman scatteringRayleigh scatteringdiffuse scatteringelastic scatteringinelastic scatteringscattering amplitudescattering anglescattering cross section
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13 total sentences available.
The farmer is scattering seeds over the field.
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The farmers were scattering seed on the fields.
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In Russia, as elsewhere in the world, folklore is rapidly scattering before the practical spirit of modern progress. The traveling peasant bard or story teller, and the devoted "nyanya", the beloved nurse of many a generation, are rapidly dying out, and with them the tales and legends, the last echoes of the nation's early joys and sufferings, hopes and fears, are passing away.
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