Difference between Scatter and Spread

What is the difference between Scatter and Spread?

Scatter as a verb is to cause to separate and go in different directions. while Spread as a verb is to stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.

Scatter

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause to separate and go in different directions. To distribute loosely as by sprinkling. To deflect (radiation or particles). To separate and go in different directions; disperse. To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.

Example sentence: It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.

Spread

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.To open one's legs.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of spreading or something that has been spread.An expanse of land.A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.Any form of food designed to be spread onto a slice of bread etc.An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.A numerical difference.The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.The difference between bidding and asking price.The difference between the prices of two similar items.

Example sentence: If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

We hope you now know whether to use Scatter or Spread in your sentence.

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