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Scatter vs Strinkle - What's the difference?

scatter | strinkle |

As verbs the difference between scatter and strinkle

is that scatter is (ergative) to (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse while strinkle is (rare) to sprinkle or scatter.

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

    strinkle

    English

    Verb

    (strinkl)
  • (rare) to sprinkle or scatter

    • References

    (strinkling of crumbs), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F0cRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA354&dq=%22strinkled%22&hl=en&ei=Vr0pTJX3KYSClAep2ZTuAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBQ
  • v=onepage&q=%22strinkled%22&f=false] (snow-water, strinkled upon some oatmeal), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=L7IhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA319&dq=%22strinkled%22&hl=en&ei=hr0pTPjGIIP7lwf1j9mwAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=%22strinkled%22&f=false (strinkled a circle of flowers)