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Journey vs Straggle - What's the difference?

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Journey is a related term of straggle.


As nouns the difference between journey and straggle

is that journey is a set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage while straggle is the act of straggling.

As verbs the difference between journey and straggle

is that journey is to travel, to make a trip or voyage while straggle is to stray from the road, course or line of march.

journey

English

(wikipedia journey)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=171, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Well-connected Brains , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
  • (label) A day.
  • (label) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
  • (label) A day's work.
  • *:
  • *:But whan ye haue done that Iourney ye shal promyse me as ye are a true knyght for to go with me and to helpe me / and other damoysels that are distressid dayly with a fals knyghte / All your entente damoysel and desyre I wylle fulfylle / soo ye wyl brynge me vnto this knyghte

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

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    straggle

    English

    Verb

    (straggl)
  • To stray from the road, course or line of march.
    • He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.
  • To wander about; ramble.
  • * L'Estrange
    • The wolf spied out a straggling kid.
  • To spread at irregular intervals.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs
  • To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.
  • * Mortimer
    • Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.
  • To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • straggling pistol shots
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.

    Derived terms

    * (noun ) straggler * (adjective ) stragglingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of straggling.
    • (Carlyle)