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Scatter vs Sprawling - What's the difference?

scatter | sprawling |

As verbs the difference between scatter and sprawling

is that scatter is (ergative) to (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse while sprawling is .

As an adjective sprawling is

that sprawls.

As a noun sprawling is

the act of one who sprawls.

scatter

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
    • the police scattered the crowds
    the crowd scattered
  • * Shakespeare
    • Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.
  • To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
    • Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.
  • * Dryden
    • Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?
  • (physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
  • To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
  • To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
    • to scatter hopes or plans

    Derived terms

    * scatterbrain * scatterplot * scattershot

    sprawling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That sprawls
  • Expansive; extensive

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who sprawls.
  • * 1838 , Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
    • Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.