Dawdle vs Sprint - What's the difference?
dawdle | sprint | Related terms |
To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
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* Johnson
To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
To move or walk lackadaisically.
* Thackeray
A short race at top speed
A burst of speed or activity
In (Agile software development), a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.
(ambitransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period
Dawdle is a related term of sprint.
As nouns the difference between dawdle and sprint
is that dawdle is a dawdler while sprint is .As a verb dawdle
is to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.dawdle
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- Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.
- to dawdle away the whole morning
- If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won't get as much exercise.
- We dawdle up and down Pall Mall.