Straggle vs Sporadic - What's the difference?
straggle | sporadic |
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 a verb straggle
is to stray from the road, course or line of march.As a noun straggle
is the act of straggling.As an adjective sporadic is
rare and scattered in occurrence.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.