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Straggler vs Runt - What's the difference?

straggler | runt |

As nouns the difference between straggler and runt

is that straggler is one who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs while runt is the smallest animal of a litter, or,.

straggler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs.
  • One who falls behind the rest.
  • One who rambles without any settled direction.
  • A roving vagabond.
  • Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
  • Something that stands alone or by itself.

    • Derived terms

    * blue straggler

    runt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The smallest animal of a litter, or,
  • The smallest child in the family, as in "the runt of the family."
  • Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
  • (computing) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
  • (typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
  • A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
    • (Halliwell)
    Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.

    Anagrams

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