Scrambled vs Straggled - What's the difference?
scrambled | straggled |
Mixed, disordered, shuffled.
(rfc-sense) ( of eggs) and cooked.
(scramble)
(straggle)
To stray from the road, course or line of march.
To wander about; ramble.
* L'Estrange
To spread at irregular intervals.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=7 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
To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Sir Walter Raleigh
As verbs the difference between scrambled and straggled
is that scrambled is (scramble) while straggled is (straggle).As an adjective scrambled
is mixed, disordered, shuffled.scrambled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled .
Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(head)straggled
English
Verb
(head)straggle
English
Verb
(straggl)- He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.
- The wolf spied out a straggling kid.
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
- Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.
- straggling pistol shots
- They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.