Definizione monolingua

sprawl

sprawl (third-person singular simple present sprawls, present participle sprawling, simple past and past participle sprawled)

1. To sit with the limbs spread out.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Baa Baa, Black Sheep”, in The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Stories^[1], Wordsworth Editions, ISBN 9781853262098, published 1994, page 159:

     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.

   • 1942, Louise Dickinson Rich, ““Do You Get Out Very Often?””, in We Took to the Woods^[2], Down East Enterprises, ISBN 9780892727360, published 2007, page 314:

     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.

   • 1979, Thomas S. Spradley, James P. Spradley, Deaf Like Me^[3], Gallaudet University Press, ISBN 9780930323110, published 1985, Chapter Six, page 64:

     There were pillows on the floor, a few chairs, and four or five students sprawled here and there watching a football game.

2. To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
   • 1771, Johann Reinhold Foster, “Birds and Beasts”, in A Voyage to China and the East Indies, volume 2^[4], A Short Account of the Chinese Husbandry, B. White, translation of original by Carl Gustav Ekeberg, page 321:

     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.

   • 1914, Herman Whitaker, Cross Trails: The Story of One Woman in the North Woods^[5], BiblioBazaar, ISBN 9781103051649, published 2009, page 116:

     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

   • 1995, James H. Hallas, “Eyes on Metz”, in Squandered Victory: the American First Army at St. Mihiel^[6], Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 9780275950224, page 187:

     German trucks stood along the road, the drivers dead in the seats or sprawled on the ground nearby. […] The woods were dotted with the corpses of German machine gunners still sprawled grotesquely over their weapons, having given their lives to buy time for Group Mihiel’s escape.

   • 2011 October 1, Clive Lindsay, “Kilmarnock 1 - 2 St Johnstone”, BBC Sport:

     Bell sprawled full length to turn a Sandaza drive wide of the far post, but Saints had done enough to inflict Killies first home defeat of the season.

sprawl (uncountable)

1. An ungainly sprawling posture.
2. A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
   • 2006, Anthony Flint, The Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America^[7], JHU Press, ISBN 9780801884191, Introduction: Developing America, page 17:

     Getting people to think about the future is difficult. Just ask some of teh 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.

   • 1959,, William H. Whye Jr., “A Plan to Save Vanishing U.S. Countryside”, Life, volume 47, number 7, Time, Inc, ISSN 0024-3019, page 92:?

     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.

   • 1948,, Terry B. Augur, “The Dispersal of Cities—A Feasible Program”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 4, number 10, Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, ISSN 0096-3402, page 314:?

     He brieflt compares the relative merits of providing for that growth by the ususal method of urban sprawl and by directing it into suburban satellite communitites with the integrity preserved adn comes out strongly for the latter method.

Definizione dizionario sprawl

	stravaccarsi
	to sit with limbs spread out

distendersi

espandersi

Altri significati:

haphazard growth

To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.

A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.

to spread out in disorderly fashion

An ungainly sprawling posture.

To sit with the limbs spread out.

To spread out in a disorderly fashion.