clutter

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈklʌtə(r)/
• Rhymes: -ʌtə(r)

Noun

clutter (uncountable)

1. a confused disordered jumble of things
2. background echos, from clouds etc, on a radar screen

Derived terms

• surface clutter
• volume clutter

Translations

a confused disordered jumble of things

• Bulgarian: врява (bg) f (vrjava), бъркотия (bg) f (bǎrkotija)
• Dutch: rommel (nl), rotzooi (nl)
• Finnish: sotku (fi)
• French: bric-à-brac (fr) m, bordel (fr) m
• German: Unordnung (de) f, Wirrwarr (de) n, Durcheinander (de) n, Verwirrung (de) f

• Portuguese: bagunça (pt) m
• Russian: беспорядок (ru) (besporjádok) m , кутерьма (ru) (kuterʹmá) f 
• Spanish: desorden (es) m, revoltijo (es) m, caos (es) m
• Turkish: dağınıklık (tr), kargaşalık (tr), zürzavar (tr)

background echos

• Russian: помехи (ru) (poméxi) f pl 

Verb

clutter (third-person singular simple present clutters, present participle cluttering, simple past and past participle cluttered)

1. to fill something with clutter
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To clot or coagulate, like blood.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Translations

to fill something with clutter

• Bulgarian: вдигам шум (bg) (vdigam šum)
• Finnish: sotkea (fi), sekoittaa (fi)
• German: anhäufen (de), überhäufen (de), überladen (de), verwirren (de)

• Russian: захламлять (ru) (zaxlamljátʹ) , загромождать (ru) (zagromoždátʹ) 
• Turkish: darmadağınık etmek (tr), tıkabasa doldurmak (tr), yığmak (tr)