CLUTTER

clutter

(noun) unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen

clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother

(noun) a confused multitude of things

clutter, clutter up

(verb) fill a space in a disorderly way

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

clutter (countable and uncountable, plural clutters)

(uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.

(uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc, on a radar or sonar screen.

(countable) A group of cats; the collective noun for cats.

(obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.

Verb

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

To fill something with clutter.

(obsolete, intransitive) To clot or coagulate, like blood.

To make a confused noise; to bustle.

To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).

Proper noun

Clutter (plural Clutters)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Clutter is the 10337^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3116 individuals. Clutter is most common among White (94.67%) individuals.

Source: Wiktionary

Clut"ter, n. Etym: [Cf. W. cludair heap, pile, cludeirio to heap.]

1. A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter. He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits. L'Estrange.

2. Clatter; confused noise. Swift.

Clut"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cluttered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cluttering.]

Definition: To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.

Clut"ter, v. i.

Definition: To make a confused noise; to bustle. It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there. Tennyson.

Clut"ter, v. t. Etym: [From Clod, n.]

Definition: To clot or coagulate, as blood. [Obs.] Holland.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition