Verstreuen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- broadcast verb To transmit a program or message by radio, television, or similar means to a wide audience.
- disperse verb To scatter or spread out in different directions.
- disseminate verb To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.
- scatter verb To cause to separate and move in different directions.
- spread verb To open something out so it covers a wider area.
- straggle verb To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.
Senses
Verstreuen is used for these senses in English:
- broadcast (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.
- disperse (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- disperse (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- disseminate (intransitive) To become widespread.
- scatter (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
- spread (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area. [from 13th c.]
- straggle (intransitive) To act in a disorderly and irregular way.
broadcast — full definition
- verb To transmit a program or message by radio, television, or similar means to a wide audience.
- noun A radio or television program transmitted to the public.
disperse — full definition
- verb To scatter or spread out in different directions.
- verb To spread information or resources widely.