From en.wiktionary.org:
[Clutter]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [enm], equivalent to [en]. Compare [cy], [cy].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. [en] A confused disordered jumble of things.
2. * [passage=He saw what a CLUTTER there was with Huge, Over-grown Pots, Pans, and Spits.]
3. * [en]
4. [en] Background echo es, from cloud s etc., on a radar or sonar screen .
5. [en] [en] .
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2008 | author=John Robert Colombo | title=The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories | section=Introduction
|passage=Organizing ghost stories is like herding a CLUTTER of cats: the
phenomenon resists organization and classification.}}
1. [en] Clatter ; confused noise .
2. * OCTOBER 14 1718 , [John Arbuthnot] , _letter to [Jonathan Swift]_
3. *: I hardly heard a word of news or politicks, except a little CLUTTER about sending some impertinent _presidents du parliament_ to prison
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1835 | author=William Cobbett; John Morgan Cobbett; James Paul Cobbett | title=Selections from Cobbett's political works | volume=1 | page=33
|passage=It was then you might have heard a CLUTTER: pots, pans and pitchers,
mugs, jugs and jordens, all put themselves in motion at once[...]}}
1. [en] A Sperner family .
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en|anticlutter|bioclutter|cluttercore |clutter-free|clutterfree
|clutterless|clutterous|cluttersome|cluttery|cyberclutter|declutter|unclutter|e-clutter|surface
clutter|volume clutter }}
**** Translations
[a confused disordered jumble of things]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [adverb] [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[background echos]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Russian: [ru]
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To fill something with clutter .
2. * [en]
3. [en] To clot or coagulate , like blood .
4. * [book=12]
5. [en] To make a confused noise ; to bustle .
6. * [volume=I]
7. [en] To utter word s hurriedly , especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering ).
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to fill something with clutter]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr] [tr] , [tr] [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[to utter words hurriedly, especially as a speech disorder]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
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*** References
- [R:Webster 1913]