Shelter vs Overspread - What's the difference?

Shelter is a related term of overspread.

In lang=en terms the difference between shelter and overspread

is that shelter is to take cover while overspread is to spread over or across (something); to permeate, overrun.

As verbs the difference between shelter and overspread

is that shelter is to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect while overspread is to spread over or across (something); to permeate, overrun.

As a noun shelter

is a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

shelter

English

Noun

(en noun)

A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne

, title=Well Tackled! , chapter=7 citation , passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}

An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

Derived terms

* bus shelter

Verb

(en verb)

To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

* Dryden

Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.

* Southey

You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .

To take cover.

During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.

overspread

English

Verb

To spread over or across (something); to permeate, overrun.

* Drayton

those nations of the North which overspread the world

* 1913 , DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers , Penguin 2006, p. 289:

Deliberately, and with a peculiar quivering smile, that seemed to overspread her whole body, she put her mouth on his.