Sprawled vs Dropped - What's the difference?
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(sprawl)
To sit with the limbs spread out.
* {{quote-book
, year=1888
, year_published=1994
, publisher=Wordsworth Editions
, author=
, title=The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Stories
, chapter=Baa Baa, Black Sheep
v=onepage&q=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to%20sprawl%22%20-urban&f=false
, isbn=9781853262098
, page=159
, passage=There was no special place for him or his little affairs, and he was forbidden to sprawl' on sofas and explain his ideas about the manufacture of this world and his hopes for the future. ' Sprawling was lazy and wore out sofas, and little boys were not expected to talk.}}
* {{quote-book
, year=1942
, year_published=2007
, publisher=Down East Enterprises
, author=Louise Dickinson Rich
, title=We Took to the Woods
, chapter=“Do You Get Out Very Often?”
v=onepage&q=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to%20sprawl%22%20-urban&f=false
, isbn=9780892727360
, page=314
, passage=But most of all I like to sit in the dark with all these hearty souls sprawled' around me on the floor and hear them talk. I am sorry to say that I can never believe that floor-'''sprawling is anything but a pose; I have tried it and it is ''not comfortable but it looks well in the flickering fire-light, and is in good magazine-story tradition.}}
* {{quote-book
, year=1979
, year_published=1985
, publisher=Gallaudet University Press
, author=Thomas S. Spradley, James P. Spradley
, title=Deaf Like Me
, section=Chapter Six
v=onepage&q=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to%20sprawl%22%20-urban&f=false
, isbn=9780930323110
, page=64
, passage=There were pillows on the floor, a few chairs, and four or five students sprawled here and there watching a football game.}}
To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
* {{quote-book
, year=1771
, publisher=B. White
, editor=
, by=Carl Gustav Ekeberg
, author=Johann Reinhold Foster
, title=A Voyage to China and the East Indies, volume 2
, chapter=Birds and Beasts
, volume_plain=A Short Account of the Chinese Husbandry
v=onepage&q=sprawl&f=false
, page=321
, passage=The hatched young ones are ?odl to tho?e who breed them up, and the?e try in the following manner whether they are hatched too ?oon or not: they take hold the little ducks by the bill, and their bodies hang down ; if they ?prawl and extend their feet and wings, they are hatched in due time ; but if they have had too much heat, they hang without any ?truggling.}}
* {{quote-book
, year=1914
, year_published=2009
, publisher=BiblioBazaar
, author=
, title=Cross Trails: The Story of One Woman in the North Woods
v=onepage&q=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to%20sprawl%22%20-urban&f=false
, isbn=9781103051649
, page=116
, passage=A shrewd blow, it caught him off balance, and after one ineffectual stagger he sprawled backward and lay for a moment staring up in blank surprise}}
* {{quote-book
, year=1995
, publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group
, author=James H. Hallas
, title=Squandered Victory: the American First Army at St. Mihiel
, chapter=Eyes on Metz
v=onepage&q=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to%20sprawl%22%20-urban&f=false
, isbn=9780275950224
, page=187
, passage=German trucks stood along the road, the drivers dead in the seats or sprawled' on the ground nearby.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Clive Lindsay
, title=Kilmarnock 1 - 2 St Johnstone
, work=BBC Sport
An ungainly sprawling posture.
A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
* {{quote-book
, year=2006
, publisher=JHU Press
, author=Anthony Flint
, title=The Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America
, section=Introduction: Developing America
v=onepage&q=sprawl&f=false
, isbn=9780801884191
, page=17
, passage=Getting people to think about the future is difficult. Just ask some of the people who end up being most concerned about sprawl —the millions who move into suburban subdivisions, only to have their dreams of the good life spoiled by maddening traffic and water bans, because millions more moved into the next subdivision over.}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year=1959
, author=William H. Whye Jr.
, title=A Plan to Save Vanishing U.S. Countryside
, date=August 17, 1959
, volume=47
, issue=7
, page=92
, magazine=Life
, publisher=Time, Inc
, issn=0024-3019
v=onepage&q=sprawl&f=false
, passage=Many of our past difficulties in dealing with sprawl' come from some very mistaken if widely held assumptions. One is that ' sprawl is due to too many people and not enough land.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year=1948
, author=Terry B. Augur
, title=The Dispersal of Cities—A Feasible Program
, date=October 1948
, volume=4
, issue=10
, page=314
, magazine=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
, publisher=Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science
, issn=0096-3402
v=onepage&q=sprawl&f=false
, passage=He briefly compares the relative merits of providing for that growth by the usual method of urban sprawl and by directing it into suburban satellite communities with the integrity preserved and comes out strongly for the latter method.
}}
(drop)
A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that falls from a source of liquid.
The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
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A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal activity; a drop-off point.
An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies by parachute.
(chiefly, British) a small amount of an alcoholic beverage; or when used with the definite article (the drop ), alcoholic spirits in general.
(Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, a lemon drop; a lozenge.
(American football) A dropped pass.
(American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
In a woman'', the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; ''in a man , the difference between chest circumference and waist circumference.
(video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
(music) A point in a song, usually electronic styled music such as dubstep, house and trance, where everything is played at once, also known highlight, or climax.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 26
, author=Genevieve Koski
, title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe
, work=The Onion AV Club
(US, banking, dated) an unsolicited credit card issue
The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.
(architecture) A gutta.
A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's deck; a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet; a curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; etc.
A drop press or drop hammer.
(engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
(nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
* Spenser
To drip (a liquid).
* Creech
* Sterne
Generally, to fall (straight down).
(ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
* Bible, Psalms lxviii. 8
To sink quickly to the ground.
To fall dead, or to fall in death.
* Digby
To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
* 1897 , (Henry James), (What Maisie Knew) :
To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
(slang) To part with or spend (money).
* 1949 , The Atlantian , v 8, Atlanta: United States Penitentiary, p 41:
* 2000 , Lisa Reardon, Blameless: A Novel , Random House, p 221:
To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion etc.).
* S. Sharp
* Thackeray
* Sir Walter Scott
To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
* , chapter=17
, title= To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
* 1846, ed. by G. W. Nickisson, “Elephant-Shooting in Ceylon”, in , vol. XXXIII, no. CXCVII
* 1892 , Alexander A. A. Kinloch, Large Game Shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India ,
* 1921 , Daniel Henderson, Boone of the Wilderness ,
* 1985 , (Beastie Boys), :
* 1992, Dan Parkinson, Dust on the Wind , page 164
(linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
(cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman being out.
(slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
to dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose
to eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
(slang) To impart.
(transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
(music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
(intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
(music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course
(fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
(of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 26, author=Genevieve Koski, work=The Onion AV Club
, title= (of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
(of people) To visit informally; used with in'' or ''by .
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
To give birth to.
To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
* Milton
To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
Sprawled is a related term of dropped.
As verbs the difference between sprawled and dropped
is that sprawled is (sprawl) while dropped is (drop).sprawled
English
Verb
(head)sprawl
English
Verb
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Noun
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Derived terms
* urban sprawlSee also
* Los Angelizationdropped
English
Verb
(head)drop
English
(wikipedia drop)Noun
(en noun)- Put three drops of oil into the mixture.
- On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop .
- That was a long drop , but fortunately I didn't break any bones.
- It moved in surges, like a roller coaster on a series of drops and high-banked turns.
- I left the plans at the drop , like you asked.
- The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch.
- He usually enjoys a drop after dinner.
- It doesn't matter where you're from; anyone who enjoys the drop is a friend of mine.
- Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.
- The Tiger quarterback took a one-step drop , expecting his tight end to be open.
citation, page= , passage=But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).}}
Derived terms
* dropless * droplike * raindropVerb
(dropp)- The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, / And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.
- The trees drop balsam.
- The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
- The heavens dropped at the presence of God.
- Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us.
- Maisie's faith in Mrs. Wix for instance had suffered no lapse from the fact that all communication with her had temporarily dropped .
- The question was: Who put the most in the collection box? The wealthy guy, who dropped a “C” note, or the tattered old dame who parted with her last tarnished penny.
- I forked over the $19.25. I was in no position to be dropping twenties like gumdrops but I deserved something good from this crappy morning.
- They suddenly drop't the pursuit.
- that astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again
- The connection had been dropped many years.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}
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page 562
: ...if the first shot does not drop him, and he rushes on, the second will be a very hurried and most likely ineffectual one...
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page 568
...with a single shot he dropped him like a master of the art.
page 126
- As with all other animals, a shot behind the shoulder is the most likely to drop the beast on the spot
page 54
- He dropped the beast with a bullet in its heart.
- The piano player's out, the music stopped / His boy had beef, and he got dropped ...
- With a quick clench of the fist on Joey's throat, Bodie dropped him. The man crumpled to the ground
Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe, passage=The 18-year-old Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times. }}
- to drop a lamb
- their waved coats dropped with gold
