disperse

«disperse» in Mova's school dictionary: to go away in different directions, or to make a crowd do… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (disperse, disperses, dispersed, dispersing)

meaning for a pupil

1) To disperse is to go away in different directions, or to make a crowd do this. tree →

2) To spread something widely over an area. tree →

3) (science) For light, to split into its colours, as in a prism. tree →

4) For fog, cloud or smoke, to thin out and disappear. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science: seeds are dispersed by wind, water and animals; light is dispersed by a prism into a rainbow. In news: police dispersed a crowd. Phrases: «the crowd dispersed», «seed dispersal», «the fog dispersed».

examples

• After the match, the crowd slowly dispersed. tree →
• Dandelion seeds are dispersed by the wind. tree →
• Birds help disperse seeds by eating fruit. tree →
• By noon, the fog had dispersed. tree →
• A prism disperses white light into the colours of the rainbow. tree →
• Police told the gathering to disperse. tree →
• The smell dispersed when we opened the window. tree →
• Immediately they cocked up their tails and dispersed among the thick forests. tree →

note

Noun: «dispersal» (seed dispersal) or «dispersion» (of light). Opposite: gather, congregate. Spelling: disperse, not «disburse» (which means to pay out money).

In the corpora

• And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent.
• And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
• Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets.
• The lips of the wise disperse knowledge; but the heart of the foolish is not stedfast.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «disperse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.