scat

«scat» in Mova's school dictionary: a shout to make an animal or a pest go away quickly: shoo — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

interjection; verb (scat, scats, scatted, scatting) (informal, old use)

meaning for a pupil

1) «Scat!» is a shout to make an animal or a pest go away quickly: shoo. tree →

2) To scat is to run away quickly, to dash off. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories «scat!» is shouted to chase a creature away; «scooted» and «scatted» mean ran off quickly

examples

• Scat, you cat! tree →
• When Miss Rabbit said «scat», they scatted. tree →
• The mice scatted off the table when the cat came. tree →

note

nothing for maths; «scattered» in a sum is a different word, meaning spread about

Trees and pragmatics

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