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Sprawling vs Spreading - What's the difference?

sprawling | spreading |

As verbs the difference between sprawling and spreading

is that sprawling is present participle of lang=en while spreading is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between sprawling and spreading

is that sprawling is the act of one who sprawls while spreading is the act by which something is spread.

As an adjective sprawling

is that sprawls.

sprawling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That sprawls
  • Expansive; extensive

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who sprawls.
  • * 1838 , Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
    • Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.

    spreading

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10, author=Audrey Garric
    • , volume=188, issue=22, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is spread.
  • * 1991 , Samuel D. Robbins, Wisconsin Birdlife: Population & Distribution Past & Present (page 579)
    • Small numbers [of meadowlarks] remain on farms in the southern counties throughout the winter, usually relying on fresh manure spreadings for food when snow covers the fields.