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disperse(2) (iou)



disperse verb. LME.
[Latin dispers- pa. ppl stem of dispergere scatter, formed as DIS- 1 + spargere strew.]
verb trans. Drive, throw, or send in different directions; scatter, rout. LME.
Wordsworth Her feet disperse the powdery snow. P. L. Fermor The heralds were dispersed, the regiments disbanded..long ago.
verb trans. Distribute from a main source or centre; put (books, currency, or Commodities) in circulation; spread around, disseminate. LME.
C. Burney A practice..thence dispersed into all parts of the Christian world.
verb trans. Place or station at widely separated points. Freq. in pass. E16.
N. Mailer The regiment was dispersed over an area twenty miles wide and more than ten miles deep.
verb trans. Separate into parts; divide. M16-E17.
verb trans. Make known; publish. M16-E17.
verb trans. Cause (esp. something unpleasant) to disappear; dispel, dissipate. M16.
G. W. Knight A clear daylight now disperses the imaginative dark that has eclipsed Scotland.
verb intrans. Become dispelled or dissipated. L16.
R. L. Stevenson The dust..dispersed like the smoke of battle.
verb intrans. (Of people) separate and go different ways; (of a crowd or gathering) break up. M17.
E. Huxley Not only have Jews dispersed first from the Leylands, then to Chapeltown and now to Other parts of the city.
verb trans. Physics. Separate (light) into its constituent wavelengths. M17.
verb trans. Science. Distribute (a substance) as small particles throughout another, continuous, one, e.g. in a solution. E20.
dispersa'bility noun M20.
dispersable adjective E19.
dispersant noun an agent which causes or maintains a state of dispersion in a surrounding medium; a dispersing agent: M20.
dispersedly adverb in a dispersed or scattered manner M16.
dispersedness noun the condition or state of being dispersed or scattered L16.
disperser noun L16.
dispersi'bility noun M20.
dispersible adjective M20.

gastric balloon (medicine)


gastric balloon


An inflatable device implanted in the stomach as an adjunct to therapy of morbid obesity. Specific types include the silicone Garren-Edwards gastric bubble (gegb), approved by the FDA in 1985, and the ballobes balloon.