dispersed

dispersed
    adj 1: distributed or spread over a considerable extent; "has
           ties with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million
           Jews are spread throughout Europe" [syn: {dispersed},
           {spread}]
    

Dispersed \Dis*persed"\, a.
   Scattered. -- {Dis*pers"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*pers"ed*ness},
   n.
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   {Dispersed harmony} (Mus.), harmony in which the tones
      composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave
      or more.
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Disperse \Dis*perse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dispersed}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Dispersing}.] [L. dispersus, p. p. of dispergere to
   strew, scatter. See {Sparse}.]
   1. To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to
      distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are
      dispersed among all nations.
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            The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. --Prov. xv.
                                                  7.
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            Two lions, in the still, dark night,
            A herd of beeves disperse.            --Cowper.
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   2. To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to
      disperse vapors.
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            Dispersed are the glories.            --Shak.

   Syn: To scatter; dissipate; dispel; spread; diffuse;
        distribute; deal out; disseminate.
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98 Moby Thesaurus words for "dispersed":
      aimless, alienated, amorphous, broadcast, capricious, casual,
      deflected, deflective, desultory, detached, diffracted,
      diffractive, diffuse, diffused, disarticulated, disconnected,
      discontinuous, discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint,
      disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, disordered, dispread,
      disproportionate, disseminated, dissipated, distorted, distributed,
      disunited, divided, divorced, erratic, estranged, fitful,
      flectional, flexed, formless, frivolous, gratuitous, haphazard,
      hit-or-miss, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate,
      inflective, irregular, isolated, meaningless, misshapen,
      nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, planless,
      promiscuous, random, refracted, refractile, refractive,
      refrangible, removed, scattered, segregated, senseless, separated,
      sequestered, shapeless, shut off, skew, skewed, sparse, spasmodic,
      sporadic, spread, straggling, straggly, strewn, strown, systemless,
      unarranged, unclassified, undirected, ungraded, unjoined,
      unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unsorted, unsymmetrical,
      unsystematic, ununiform, vague, wandering, widespread