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scaip — 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.
  • circulate verb To move continuously through a system, or to travel around and mix with a group of people.
  • dispel verb To make fears, doubts, or false ideas disappear by showing they have no basis.
  • 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.
  • dissipate verb To gradually scatter or disappear.
  • promulgate verb To make known or make public.
  • scatter verb To cause to separate and move in different directions.
  • spread verb To open something out so it covers a wider area.
  • strew verb To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.

Senses

scaip is used for these senses in English:

  • broadcast (transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area.
  • circulate to spread or disseminate
  • dispel (transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
  • 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.
  • dissipate (transitive) To use up or waste; squander.
  • promulgate (transitive) To make known or make public.
  • put about (transitive) To circulate (a rumour).

broadcast — full definition

  1. verb To transmit a program or message by radio, television, or similar means to a wide audience.
  2. noun A radio or television program transmitted to the public.

circulate — full definition

  1. verb To move continuously through a system, or to travel around and mix with a group of people.
  2. verb To spread information, rumours, or documents so they reach many people.

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