clutter
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Is clutter a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of clutter?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.Examples: "He saw what a Clutter there was with Huge, Over-grown Pots, Pans, and Spits."; "Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them."uncountable
2. (uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.uncountable
3. (countable) Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”).Examples: "Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification."alt-ofalternativecountable
4. (obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.Examples: "October 14 1718, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift I hardly heard a word of news or politicks, except a little clutter about sending some impertinent presidents du parliament to prison"; "It was then you might have heard a clutter: pots, pans and pitchers, mugs, jugs and jordens, all put themselves in motion at once[…]"countableobsoleteuncountable
5. (mathematics) A Sperner family.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To fill something with clutter.Examples: "That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters."transitive
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To clot or coagulate, like blood.Examples: "It battereth and cluttereth into knots and balls"intransitiveobsolete
3. (intransitive) To make a confused noise; to bustle.Examples: "It [the goose] clutter'd here, it chuckled there; / It stirr'd the old wife's mettle: / She shifted in her elbow-chair, / And hurl'd the pan and kettle."intransitive
4. (transitive, intransitive) To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).intransitivetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary