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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Meaning of "disperse" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DISPERSE

From Latin dispērsus scattered, from dispergere to scatter widely, from di-² + spargere to strew.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DISPERSE

disperse  [dɪˈspɜːs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISPERSE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Disperse is a verb and can also act as an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb disperse in English.

WHAT DOES DISPERSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Definition of disperse in the English dictionary

The first definition of disperse in the dictionary is to scatter; distribute over a wide area. Other definition of disperse is to dissipate or cause to dissipate. Disperse is also to leave or cause to leave a gathering, often in a random manner.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DISPERSE

PRESENT

Present
I disperse
you disperse
he/she/it disperses
we disperse
you disperse
they disperse
Present continuous
I am dispersing
you are dispersing
he/she/it is dispersing
we are dispersing
you are dispersing
they are dispersing
Present perfect
I have dispersed
you have dispersed
he/she/it has dispersed
we have dispersed
you have dispersed
they have dispersed
Present perfect continuous
I have been dispersing
you have been dispersing
he/she/it has been dispersing
we have been dispersing
you have been dispersing
they have been dispersing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I dispersed
you dispersed
he/she/it dispersed
we dispersed
you dispersed
they dispersed
Past continuous
I was dispersing
you were dispersing
he/she/it was dispersing
we were dispersing
you were dispersing
they were dispersing
Past perfect
I had dispersed
you had dispersed
he/she/it had dispersed
we had dispersed
you had dispersed
they had dispersed
Past perfect continuous
I had been dispersing
you had been dispersing
he/she/it had been dispersing
we had been dispersing
you had been dispersing
they had been dispersing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will disperse
you will disperse
he/she/it will disperse
we will disperse
you will disperse
they will disperse
Future continuous
I will be dispersing
you will be dispersing
he/she/it will be dispersing
we will be dispersing
you will be dispersing
they will be dispersing
Future perfect
I will have dispersed
you will have dispersed
he/she/it will have dispersed
we will have dispersed
you will have dispersed
they will have dispersed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been dispersing
you will have been dispersing
he/she/it will have been dispersing
we will have been dispersing
you will have been dispersing
they will have been dispersing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would disperse
you would disperse
he/she/it would disperse
we would disperse
you would disperse
they would disperse
Conditional continuous
I would be dispersing
you would be dispersing
he/she/it would be dispersing
we would be dispersing
you would be dispersing
they would be dispersing
Conditional perfect
I would have disperse
you would have disperse
he/she/it would have disperse
we would have disperse
you would have disperse
they would have disperse
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been dispersing
you would have been dispersing
he/she/it would have been dispersing
we would have been dispersing
you would have been dispersing
they would have been dispersing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you disperse
we let´s disperse
you disperse
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to disperse
Past participle
dispersed
Present Participle
dispersing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISPERSE


adverse
ˈædvɜːs
asperse
əˈspɜːs
commerce
ˈkɒmɜːs
converse
kənˈvɜːs
covers
ˈkəʊvɜːs
cutpurse
ˈkʌtˌpɜːs
diverse
daɪˈvɜːs
e-commerce
ˈiːˌkɒmɜːs
intersperse
ˌɪntəˈspɜːs
monodisperse
ˌmɒnəʊdɪsˈpɜːs
nurse
nɜːs
perse
pɜːs
polydisperse
ˌpɒlɪdɪˈspɜːs
purse
pɜːs
reverse
rɪˈvɜːs
sperse
spɜːs
universe
ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs
unpurse
ʌnˈpɜːs
verse
vɜːs
worse
wɜːs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISPERSE

dispensing optician
dispeople
dispermous
dispersal
dispersal prison
dispersal zone
dispersant
dispersed
dispersedly
dispersedness
disperser
dispersible
dispersion
dispersion hardening
dispersion relation
dispersive
dispersive medium
dispersively
dispersiveness
dispersoid

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISPERSE

averse
blank verse
chapter and verse
controverse
free verse
immerse
in reverse
inverse
masters of the universe
merse
metaverse
multiverse
obverse
perverse
Saint-John Perse
submerse
terse
transverse
traverse
Twitterverse

Synonyms and antonyms of disperse in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DISPERSE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «disperse» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of disperse

Translation of «disperse» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DISPERSE

Find out the translation of disperse to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of disperse from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «disperse» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

扩散
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dispersar
570 millions of speakers

English

disperse
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फैलाने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تفريق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

разогнать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dispersar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অদৃশ্য করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

se disperser
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bersurai
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verstreuen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

散らす/散る
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

분산되다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyebarake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phân tán
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கலைக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पांगणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dağıtmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

disperdere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozproszenia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розігнати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dispersa
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διασκορπίζονται
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

versprei
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dispergera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of disperse

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISPERSE»

The term «disperse» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.248 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DISPERSE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «disperse» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «disperse» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about disperse

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6 QUOTES WITH «DISPERSE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word disperse.
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Bainbridge Colby
But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
2
Walter Crane
They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.
3
Carlos Fuentes
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
4
R. Buckminster Fuller
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
5
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place.
6
Carl Safina
BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISPERSE»

Discover the use of disperse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to disperse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Application of disperse dyes
Papers on research findings of Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association.
Rakesh Mohan Mittal, Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association, 1986
2
Electromagnetic Scattering in Disperse Media: Inhomogeneous ...
This is the first book devoted specifically to the problem of light scattering and absorption by inhomogeneous and anisotropic spherical particles.
Victor A. Babenko, Ludmila G. Astafyeva, Vladimir N. Kuz'min, 2003
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Radiation Heat Transfer in Disperse Systems
The physical basis of all solutions considered in this book is the notion of radiation transfer in an absorbing and scattering medium as a macroscopic process that can be described by a phenomenological transfer theory and kinetic equations ...
L. A. Dombrovsky, 1996
4
Disperse systems
Professor Makoto Takeo, the renowned expert from Portland State University, addresses this need for an understanding of disperse systems in a remarkable new text.
Makoto Takeo, 1999
5
Radical polymerization in disperse systems
This book provides a comprehensive overview of radical processes involved in the preparation of polymers and copolymers in disperse systems, with particular emphasis on emulsions.
Jaroslav Bartoň, Ignác Capek, 1994
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Dyeing Primer
Disperse dyes are applied to polyester and nylon over a full shade range: however, on acrylic fibers they are used primarily for pastel shades due to their limited buildup properties. The majority of the disperse dyes produced are used to dye ...
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Death Foretold: Firing of "rubber" Bullets to Disperse ...
Includes statistics.
Iris Giller, 1998
8
Solubility in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
Disperse Black 9 Ci6H20N4O2 300.36 C-89 С. l. Disperse Blue 3 C17H16N203 296.32 C-90, C-91 С. l. Disperse Blue 14 C|6H14N202 266.30 B-46, C-92, C-93 С. l. Disperse Blue 27 C22Hi6N207 420.37 C-94 С. l. Disperse Blue 60 C20H ...
Ram B. Gupta, Jae-Jin Shim, 2006
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Modern Pharmaceutics, Fourth Edition
Wandee Im-Emsap and Juergen Siepmann Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany Ornlaksana Paeratakul Srinakharinwirot University, Nakhonnayok, Thailand I. INTRODUCTION A disperse system is defined as a heterogenous, twophase ...
Gilbert S. Banker, Juergen Siepmann, Christopher Rhodes, 2002
10
Substance name section (part 1)...v.2. Substance name ...
C.I. Disperse Yellow 77 CI. Disperse Yellow 80 CI. Disperse Yellow 81 CI. Disperse Yellow 82 CI. Disperse Yellow 83 CI. Disperse Yellow 84 CI. Disperse Yellow 85 CJ. Disperse Yellow 86 CL Disperse Yellow 87 CL Disperse Yellow 88 CL ...
United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Toxic Substances, 1977

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISPERSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term disperse is used in the context of the following news items.
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Delhi Police uses water cannons to disperse Youth Congress …
The Delhi Police on Wednesday used water cannons to disperse Youth Congress workers who were staging a protest against the Vyapam ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
2
Issue of the day: Radicals disperse Christian camp in Yogyakarta
The Islamic Jihad Front (FJI), with police backing, has broken up a camping event of 1,500 Christian elementary and junior high school ... «Jakarta Post, Jul 15»
3
Armenian police disperse protest that blocked street for 2 weeks
Police on Monday also peacefully detained about 20 demonstrators who refused to disperse, but said they would soon be freed. It was unclear ... «CTV News, Jul 15»
4
Wild house party busted by Brantford police
As police began to disperse the crowd, partygoers then spilled onto nearby streets, resulting in more complaints from residents regarding ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
5
Intellectuals urge Yerevan demonstrators to disperse and wait for …
The Armenian youth woke up, as if from a deep sleep, and now they need to attract professional economists and lawyers to their ranks, ... «Panorama.am, Jul 15»
6
Security Forces Disperse 3 Brotherhood Supporters' Marches …
He added that security forces used teargas to disperse protestors. In Alexandria, pro and anti-Mursi protesters gathered after the Friday prayers. «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
7
Demand for ILPS : Cops disperse students near Assembly ; 15 …
Imphal, July 03 2015 : Students of different schools were injured during a clash with police personnel when they tried to storm the State Assembly today over the ... «E-Pao.net, Jul 15»
8
Digital Investigators Try To Disperse Fog Of War In Ukraine
In June 2014, Russian soldier Stanislav Tarasov posted on a social-media site a photo of himself standing in front of a military convoy against a ... «RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Jul 15»
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Digital investigators try to …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Digital investigators try to disperse fog of war in Ukraine. Print version. July 3, 2015, 7:11 a.m. | Ukraine abroad — by Radio ... «Kyiv Post, Jul 15»
10
'Noise crews' move to disperse Coolum's bat colony...again
"This morning the plan is to disperse from this site but we are also holding a presence down at Cassia Wildlife Corridor as well, in case they go ... «The Sunshine Coast Daily, Jul 15»

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