Sparsed vs Sarsed - What's the difference?
sparsed | sarsed |
(sparse)
Having widely spaced intervals.
Not dense; meager.
(obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.
(sarse)
(countable) A sieve, especially a very fine one.
* {{quote-book
, year=1833
, author=(John Neal)
, title=The Down-Easters, Volume 1
, passage=I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .}}
* {{quote-book
, year=1870
, author=(Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
, title=The Story of a Bad Boy
, passage="I don't want any of your sarse ," said the boy, scowling.}}
To sift through a sieve or sarse.
As verbs the difference between sparsed and sarsed
is that sparsed is past tense of sparse while sarsed is past tense of sarse.sparsed
English
Verb
(head)sparse
English
Adjective
(er)Derived terms
* sparse array * sparse index * sparse matrixVerb
(spars)- (Spenser)