(n.) A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.
(n.) Clatter; confused noise.
(v. t.) To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.
(v. i.) To make a confused noise; to bustle.
(n.) To clot or coagulate, as blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is just news, sent racing round the globe and pursued by an instant cloud of reactive clutter.
(2) One of the observations that a number of commentators have been making about our government is they’ve said ‘your agenda is too cluttered, you’re fighting on too many fronts’.
(3) The messy cupboards and cluttered shelves were like an actual subconscious I could purge of its guilt and pain.
(4) There's a fear that mobile users will reject Facebook ad strategies as clutter on smaller screens.
(5) The user interface feels cluttered at times, and it has a definite learning curve, but it's also easy to carve out a quick and comfortable groove for yourself as you jump between a game and a few different applications.
(6) For many years, we fought in the creeks because we were sidelined even though Nigeria’s wealth comes from here,” said Wilson, thumping a fist on a desk cluttered with awards – mostly from organisations he funds with money the government pays him not to bleed oil pipelines.
(7) They seriously threatened only twice – David de Gea saving in a cluttered first half when Chris Smalling diverted a Jonathan Parr header goalwards and then denying Cameron Jerome, on as a substitute, an equaliser shortly after Van Persie's goal – and remain two points above the bottom three.
(8) He’s doing what he feels is right and that’s why he’s paid to be manager, to make those decisions.” Even as an inexperienced team they should not have been undone by a hopeful punt into a cluttered penalty box by one of the poorer sides at this tournament.
(9) The others were fiddly, trivial-looking plastic things cluttered with buttons and dials, appealing mainly to gadget-obsessed geeks with the time to figure out how to work them.
(10) Their music has long been free of such unnecessary clutter as metaphor, allegory, and poetic conceit.
(11) Election time means satisfying people, and that means money,” said Abdulkadir, sitting in a cluttered tourist shop that also serves as a bureau-de-change in an upmarket Lagos hotel frequented by the city’s elite.
(12) She writes: After two gruelling hours, it was painfully clear that [interest rate] forward guidance, far from increasing clarity, has cluttered up the Bank's intellectual furniture with knockouts, staging posts and all the rest – while giving Britain's ever-ready consumers just the excuse they don't need to go shopping.
(13) I think every shot’s going in,” he said, “and this one was no different.” The shot came on a play Villanova works on every day in practice: Jenkins inbounds the ball toRyan Arcidiacono, he works it up court and forward Daniel Ochefu sets a pick near halfcourt to clutter things up, then Arcidiacono creates.
(14) Blocking-out involves the local people who demolish the old clutter of shacks and rebuild them.
(15) The new experiments used electronic delay lines to simulate echo delay, thus avoiding movement of loudspeakers to different distances and the possible creation of delay-dependent backward masking between stimulus echoes and cluttering echoes from the loudspeaker surfaces.
(16) "There are parents who worry that what used to be a clear two-year run during the sixth form – when you had the chance to do sport and art and music as well as getting into deep study – has become cluttered up by too many modules, too many exams, which have led to too much time being spent weighing what you know and not enough time actually getting to grips with the subject," he said.
(17) This paper demonstrates that theory of signal detectability (TSD) methodology is applicable to bats and uses it to show that an important element of clutter limiting in Eptesicus fuscus and Noctilio leporinus is backward masking of phantom targets by the real echo from the loudspeakers used to generate them.
(18) • Doubles from €90, +34 915 393 282, artriphotel.com Hidden gem Antigua Casa Talavera Antigua Casa Talavera on Calle de Isabel La Católica is a cluttered, colourful fairyland of handmade Spanish ceramics.
(19) My first task is to make sure the room is laid out in an accessible way; there must be good wheelchair access and as little clutter as possible to make it safe for people with a visual impairment.
(20) Distractions, such as the music production business and clutter, such as teddy bears, have gone and healthier food options introduced.
Flutter
Definition:
(v. t.) To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
(v. t.) To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.
(n.) The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.
(n.) Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
(2) A patient with mitral stenosis and atrial flutter was found to have a normal diastolic closure rate (E to F slope).
(3) This study demonstrates that 1) complete AV block is not a contraindication to the Fontan operation, 2) some patients may not require AV synchrony postoperatively for survival, and 3) postoperative atrial flutter or fibrillation may cease or be easier to control after the Fontan operation.
(4) Several attempts at circuit interruption of type 1 atrial flutter by means of surgical or catheter techniques have been published.
(5) The authors report 6 cases of acute respiratory failure complicating chronic bronchial and lung disease admitted to hospital with the diagnosis of: heart disease, 3 cases, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, atrial flutter; status asthmaticus : one case; neuro-psychiatric disease : 2 cases (toxic coma and agitation).
(6) Thirty patients with long-standing (mean 30 days) type I atrial flutter (AF) were treated with overdrive atrial pacing.
(7) Mean proficiency scores were 51% for atrial flutter and 35% for ventricular tachycardia.
(8) However, atrial flutter often recurs despite the use of these conventional antiarrhythmic regimens.
(9) The results of programmed stimulation were estimated to be positive when sustained or unsustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia was triggered, and negative when ventricular fibrillation, ventricular flutter unsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia or no arrhythmia could be induced.
(10) AJ Green was waiting just behind him, and the receiver gratefully pulled in the softly fluttering ball.
(11) Single or repetitive supraventricular premature beats were found in 65 (41%), paroxysmal atrial or junctional tachycardias in 20 (12%), bouts of atrial flutter or fibrillation in 3 (2%).
(12) This study investigated the effects of pharmacologically induced changes in atrial conduction velocity and refractoriness, in the conversion and suppression of atrial flutter induced in the open-chest anesthetized dog by intercaval crush and rapid atrial pacing.
(13) (5) Development of postoperative atrial fibrillation or flutter has not been associated with peroperative or postoperative events.
(14) The results of 181 therapeutic stimulations in cases of atrial flutter (a-flut) have shown that a-flut is terminated in a wide range by means of programmed stimulation (PS).
(15) At follow-up (mean 6.5 years), 83% of the patients were alive (49% without atrial flutter and 34% with atrial flutter) and 17% died (10% suddenly, 6% of nonsudden cardiac cause and 1% of noncardiac cause).
(16) Five patients with bicuspid aortic valves showed mitral valve diastolic flutter indicative of aortic regurgitation.
(17) Spontaneous change in direction of F waves in atrial flutter is rare.
(18) SVT includes paroxysmal SVT, atrial flutter, atrial tachycardia and junctional tachycardia (enhanced automaticity).
(19) There was an area of slow conduction during atrial flutter in the low right atrium.
(20) Recent studies of human type 1 atrial flutter demonstrated reentry in the right atrium and an area of slow conduction in the low posteroseptal right atrium.