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Definition: Spattered |
SpatteredAdjective1. Covered patchily; often used in combination; "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with grease". 2. Spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spattered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: SpatteredSynonyms: bespattered (adj), besplashed (adj), dabbled (adj), splashed (adj), splashy (adj), splattered (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spattered |
| English words defined with "spattered": bespatter, bespattered, besplashed ♦ spatter, splash, splashed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "spattered": Eggs. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | On a moon spattered road in her parrot rebozo (Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First); performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp and George Green) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Hauled out for repairs at the Destroyer Base, San Diego, California, following a collision with USS Percival (DD-298) on the night of 31 January 1926. The original caption reads: "Close-up showing dent in her side as a result of the collision with USS Percival, Sunday night, 31 January 1926. The collision occurred between the two ships in Coronado Roads, California. The sharp prow of the Percival punctured the port forward oil tank of the William Jones, in addition to cutting three deep gashes in the hull just above the water line and cracking several frame plates. William Jones was placed on the marine ways at the Destroyer Base for repairs, when spattered from stem to stern with oil that poured out from the leaking fuel tank, she returned to the harbor. Percival, apparently seaworthy, was ordered to proceed to Panama with the Fleet.". Credit: NAVY. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He clutched the candle and put it on the mantel with such a shock that the flame was almost extinguished and the tallow was spattered upon the wall. |
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| "Spattered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 49.06% of the time. "Spattered" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 49.06% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 43.4% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.55% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "spattered": blood-spattered, mud-spattered, paint-spattered. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blood spattered bride | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spattered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | ' (spattering, sprinkle, sprinkled, sprinkles, sprinkling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tekstilstof, der er paasproejtet andet materiale (spattered fabric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bespat weefsel (spattered fabric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hänen takkiinsa roiskui (her coat was spattered with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tissu parsemé (spattered fabric), poudre irrégulière (spattered powder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gespritzt (spouted, sprayed, squirted), bespritzte (dabbled, splashed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ύφασμα διεσπαρμένο(με...) (spattered fabric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tersimbah (drenched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tessuto cosparso (spattered fabric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 튀기" (Flipped, fried, splashed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atteredspay tecido salpicado (spattered fabric). (various references) брызгать забрызганный. (various references) tejido salpicado (spattered fabric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "spattered": bespattered. (additional references) | |
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"Spattered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aspettare, sattered, slatered, slattered, spatterd, spattere. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spattered" (pronounced spa"terd) |
| 5 | -p a" t er d | pattered. |
| 4 | -a" t er d | battered, flattered, mattered, scattered, shattered, splattered, tattered. |
| 3 | -t er d | administered, altered, bantered, bartered, bastard, bettered, blistered, bolstered, bustard, buttered, catered, centered, chartered, cloistered, clustered, cluttered, countered, cratered, custard, doctored, embittered, encountered, entered, factored, faltered, festered, fettered, filibustered, filtered, flustered, fluttered, fostered, frittered, glittered, guttered, headquartered, lettered, littered, martyred, mastered, mentored, metered, monitored, mustard, mustered, muttered, neutered, pestered, petard, petered, plastered, reentered, registered, sequestered, sheltered, shuttered, slaughtered, splintered, sputtered, teetered, tutored, unaltered, unchartered, uncluttered, unfettered, unfiltered, unregistered, upholstered, uttered, watered, wintered. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pretasted. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: adeptest, pattered, peartest, pederast, predates, pretaste, repasted, restated, retasted, trapesed. | |
-2 letters: adepter, dearest, departs, derates, estated, estreat, patters, pertest, petards, petters, predate, pretest, redates, repeats, respade, restate, retaped, retapes, retaste, sedater, septate, spatted, spatter, speared, started, tapered, tapster, tetrads, treated. | |
-3 letters: adepts, aptest, aretes, daters, depart, derate, derats, desert, deters, detest, drapes, easter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-p-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: splattered, tapestried, trapnested. | |
+2 letters: bespattered, departments, superfatted. | |
+3 letters: decrepitates, distemperate, predestinate, premeditates, stepdaughter. | |
+4 letters: dermatophytes, predestinated, predestinates, predestinator, premeditators, repristinated, stepdaughters, subdepartment, tetraploidies. | |
+5 letters: antidepressant, decrepitations, distemperature, pancreatitides, predestinating, predestination, predestinators, premeditations, subdepartments, supersaturated. | |
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