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Wander vs Engross - What's the difference?

wander | engross |

As verbs the difference between wander and engross

is that wander is (lb) to move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood while engross is (senseid) to write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

As a noun wander

is the act or instance of wandering.

wander

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) xi.37:
  • *:They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
  • *
  • *:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
  • (lb) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (Psalms) cxix.10:
  • *:O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
  • (lb) To commit adultery.
  • (lb) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
  • (lb) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
  • Conjugation

    (en-conj-simple)

    Synonyms

    * (move without purpose) err, roam * (commit adultery) cheat * (go somewhere indirectly) * (lose focus) drift

    Derived terms

    * wander off * wanderer * wanderlust

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or instance of wandering.
  • To go for a wander

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    engross

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (senseid) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
  • * Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials
  • * De Quincey
  • laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail
  • (transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
  • To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
  • After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not
  • * 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:
  • Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.
  • To completely engage the attention of.
  • She seems to be''' completely '''engrossed in that book.
  • (obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
  • As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste , / The world in darkenes dwels
  • To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
  • * Spenser
  • waves engrossed with mud
  • * Shakespeare
  • not sleeping, to engross his idle body
  • (obsolete) To amass.
  • * Shakespeare
  • to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf

    Synonyms

    * (to buy up the whole supply of) corner the market

    Coordinate terms

    * (to write out in large characters) longhand

    References

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