Disperse
verb
To scatter or spread things over a wide area.
The crowd dispersed when the police arrived.
Often appears as...
- disperse the crowd
- disperse seeds
verb
To go or cause to go in different directions.
After the meeting, we all dispersed to our homes.
Often appears as...
- disperse the team
- disperse the group
verb
To disappear or cause to disappear.
The morning fog will disperse as the day goes on.
Often appears as...
- disperse the smoke
- disperse the fog
verb
To scatter or spread things over a wide area.
The crowd dispersed when the police arrived.
Often appears as...
- disperse the crowd
- disperse seeds
verb
To go or cause to go in different directions.
After the meeting, we all dispersed to our homes.
Often appears as...
- disperse the team
- disperse the group
verb
To disappear or cause to disappear.
The morning fog will disperse as the day goes on.
Often appears as...
- disperse the smoke
- disperse the fog
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Action
Used when objects or people are physically moving apart.
The demonstrators dispersed peacefully after the rally.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Disassemble
'Disperse' implies spreading widely, not taking something apart.
The wind helped to disperse the pollen across the field.
Pro Tip 3/3Wide Area
The result often covers a large area, not just a slight expansion.
The farmer used a machine to disperse the fertilizer evenly over the crop.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Action
Used when objects or people are physically moving apart.
The demonstrators dispersed peacefully after the rally.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Disassemble
'Disperse' implies spreading widely, not taking something apart.
The wind helped to disperse the pollen across the field.
Pro Tip 3/3Wide Area
The result often covers a large area, not just a slight expansion.
The farmer used a machine to disperse the fertilizer evenly over the crop.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Action
Used when objects or people are physically moving apart.
The demonstrators dispersed peacefully after the rally.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Disassemble
'Disperse' implies spreading widely, not taking something apart.
The wind helped to disperse the pollen across the field.
Pro Tip 3/3Wide Area
The result often covers a large area, not just a slight expansion.
The farmer used a machine to disperse the fertilizer evenly over the crop.
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Baby Orphan Fox Rescue PIPE...
pre-release pens for quite some time so they can get a feel for being in the wild so most of the fox clubs you know in that stage of their life they tend to come in at sort of february march time and they'll be with us until late summer early autumn and we'd then release them when they would naturally disperse from
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Why is biodiversity so...
and growing thick wooden stems that support these towering trees. Helped along by the vines, trees provide the seeds, fruits and leaves to herbivores, such as the tapir and the agouti, which disperse their seeds throughout the forest so they can grow. Leftovers are consumed by the millions of insects
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Filming The Kangaroo...
that was actually really helpful for filming the kangaroos because they actually disperse quite a lot at night and then during the day they come back into these quite contained areas and they're kind of forced to do that a little bit by the environment the area where we're in is mostly females and
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The secret lives of baby...
So, how did they accomplish this feat? Until recently, marine biologists thought of larval fish as largely passive drifters, dispersed by ocean currents to distant locales. But in the last 20 years, new research has suggested that larvae may not be as helpless as they seem,
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Creating a Bio-Industrial...
disperse them these are deep patterns what happens is I bought one material system that tightened composite that that beetle is made of has all the functionality it needs what it does is it adds information to matter it has
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Divers Fight the...
reproduce very early in life so they reach maturity they grow very rapidly that are capable of dispersing large distances during their egg and marble phase which ride ocean currents a species that has venomous spines they
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The Spider Monkeys of...
important role in the forest, don't they? Yes, they do. They are also called engineers of the forest because they have this ability to disperse a large amount of seeds, especially large ones, because they travel a lot
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Emma Teeling: The secret...
Now as I said before, bats are essential for our ecosystems to function correctly. And why is this? Bats in the tropics are major pollinators of many plants. They also feed on fruit, and they disperse the seeds
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How do we study the...
but other specific instruments that disperse light. When we look at the scattered light from our sun, we see something dark lines in our rainbow. These lines are the characteristic fingerprints of atoms.
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How Can Bees Save Bears?...
Anything that the bear eats, especially fruits, The seeds that the bear is moving from one tree to the other, it's helping to disperse through the forest.
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Baby Orphan Fox Rescue PIPE...
pre-release pens for quite some time so they can get a feel for being in the wild so most of the fox clubs you know in that stage of their life they tend to come in at sort of february march time and they'll be with us until late summer early autumn and we'd then release them when they would naturally disperse from
Video examples
Why is biodiversity so...
and growing thick wooden stems that support these towering trees. Helped along by the vines, trees provide the seeds, fruits and leaves to herbivores, such as the tapir and the agouti, which disperse their seeds throughout the forest so they can grow. Leftovers are consumed by the millions of insects
Video examples
Filming The Kangaroo...
that was actually really helpful for filming the kangaroos because they actually disperse quite a lot at night and then during the day they come back into these quite contained areas and they're kind of forced to do that a little bit by the environment the area where we're in is mostly females and
Video examples
The secret lives of baby...
So, how did they accomplish this feat? Until recently, marine biologists thought of larval fish as largely passive drifters, dispersed by ocean currents to distant locales. But in the last 20 years, new research has suggested that larvae may not be as helpless as they seem,
Video examples
Creating a Bio-Industrial...
disperse them these are deep patterns what happens is I bought one material system that tightened composite that that beetle is made of has all the functionality it needs what it does is it adds information to matter it has
Video examples
Divers Fight the...
reproduce very early in life so they reach maturity they grow very rapidly that are capable of dispersing large distances during their egg and marble phase which ride ocean currents a species that has venomous spines they
Video examples
The Spider Monkeys of...
important role in the forest, don't they? Yes, they do. They are also called engineers of the forest because they have this ability to disperse a large amount of seeds, especially large ones, because they travel a lot
Video examples
Emma Teeling: The secret...
Now as I said before, bats are essential for our ecosystems to function correctly. And why is this? Bats in the tropics are major pollinators of many plants. They also feed on fruit, and they disperse the seeds
Video examples
How do we study the...
but other specific instruments that disperse light. When we look at the scattered light from our sun, we see something dark lines in our rainbow. These lines are the characteristic fingerprints of atoms.
Video examples
How Can Bees Save Bears?...
Anything that the bear eats, especially fruits, The seeds that the bear is moving from one tree to the other, it's helping to disperse through the forest.
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Aravind Adiga
Indian Writer
An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.
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Carlos Fuentes
Mexican Novelist
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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Jim Watkins
American Businessman
It is clearly a political move to remove 8chan from Cloudflare. It has forced a lot of people to find other places to talk. It has dispersed a peacefully assembled group of people talking. This silenced them effectively.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
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Bainbridge Colby
American Public Servant
But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
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Richard Coles
English Musician
I don't think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite - I really think of myself as quite conventional but dispersed over unusual territory.
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Bill Maris
American Businessman
All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
American Inventor
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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Richard Edelman
American Businessman
In a world of dispersed authority, the battle for the truth will be won or lost with the employees.
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Swiss Critic
Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place.
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Aravind Adiga
Indian Writer
An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.
Quote examples
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican Novelist
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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Jim Watkins
American Businessman
It is clearly a political move to remove 8chan from Cloudflare. It has forced a lot of people to find other places to talk. It has dispersed a peacefully assembled group of people talking. This silenced them effectively.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
Quote examples
Bainbridge Colby
American Public Servant
But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
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Richard Coles
English Musician
I don't think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite - I really think of myself as quite conventional but dispersed over unusual territory.
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Bill Maris
American Businessman
All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
American Inventor
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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Richard Edelman
American Businessman
In a world of dispersed authority, the battle for the truth will be won or lost with the employees.
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Swiss Critic
Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place.
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