Wednesday 30 November 2011

Silent Movie - Disperse

The other word that I picked from the randomiser for the silent movie brief is disperse.

In preparation for Thursdays workshop, I've to find a minimum of...

20 alternative words that relate to my word
Using the thesaurus on Word, I typed in disperse to get related words, then found related words of the ones I found that I think still best suit.

  • Disperse
  • Scatter
  • Dissolve
  • Deparate
  • Diffuse
  • Go away
  • Break up
  • Melt away
  • Throw
  • Strew
  • Fling
  • Toss
  • Sprinkle
  • Distribute
  • Disseminate
  • Dot
  • Lob
  • Heave
  • Pitch
  • Chuck
  • Soften
  • Thaw
  • Run
  • Sprint
  • Enclosure
  • Flow
  • Proceed
  • Move

20 meanings/interpretations of my word

  • Denoting a phase dispersed in another phase, as in a colloid - emulsions should be examined after storage for droplet size of the disperse phase
  • Distribute or spread over a wide area - storms can disperse seeds via high altitudes - camping sites could be dispersed among trees so as to be out of sight
  • Go or cause to go in different directions or to different destinations - the crowd dispersed - the police used tear gas to disperse the protesters
  • Cause (gas, smoke, mist, or cloud) to thin out and eventually disappear - winds dispersed the bomb's radioactive cloud high in the atmosphere
  • Thin out and disappear - the earlier mist had dispersed
  • Divide (light) into constituents of different wavelengths
  • Distribute (small particles) uniformly in a medium
  • scatter: distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
  • to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
  • break up: cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles"
  • move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"separate (light) into spectral rays; "the prosm disperses light"
  • circulate: cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
  • Biological dispersal refers to a species movement away from an existing population or away from the parent organism.
  • A dispersion is a system in which particles are dispersed in a continuous phase of a different composition (or state). See also emulsion.
  • In materials science, dispersion is the fraction of atoms of a material exposed to the surface. In general: where D is the dispersion, NS is the number of surface atoms and NT is the total number of atoms of the material.
  • To scatter in different directions; To break up and disappear; to dissipate; To disseminate; To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract; To distribute throughout
  • Finely divided or colloidal in nature, such as pigment particles completely separated in a binder as compared with several pigments particles stuck to one another.
  • Separation of a quantity.
  • The movement of a young bird from the site where it hatched to the site where it will breed. Natal dispersal is the permanent movement of young birds from their birth sites to their own breeding locations. 
  • The act of organisms moving from one habitat to another
  • When an animal leaves an area and does not return.
  • Transport of spores to other sites.

20 objects (images) that relate to my word












20 situations relating to the word
  • blowing a dandelion
  • ink soaking into paper
  • tie dying
  • emigrating
  • transporting stock from a warehouse to a store
  • dismissing a class/lecture
  • rumours
  • smoke disappearing
  • storms
  • volcanoes
  • sieving
  • sorting money into individual piles
  • the sun
  • turning on a light
  • spilling a glass of water
  • bacteria multiplying
  • rioting getting out of hand
  • splashing
  • wind blowing something away
  • soaking
  • a tea bag being stewed
  • pulling an espresso from a coffee machine
  • playing marbles
  • sneezing

20 typefaces that relate/are appropriate to my word



I'm required to bring a small, medium, and large sized print out of each typeface for the word. So I have decided to do the small size as 12pt, medium as 36pt and big as 72pt.

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