spread
IPA: sprˈɛd
noun
- The act of spreading.
- Something that has been spread.
- (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- An expanse of land.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
- (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- A numerical difference.
- (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
- (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
- (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
- (debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
verb
- (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
- (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
- (intransitive, transitive, debating slang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
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Examples of "spread" in Sentences
- Promiscuity spreads AIDS.
- The surface spreads and ruptures.
- A wide panorama spreads before us.
- The result was the spread of cholera.
- This favours the spread of the virus.
- The spread of the disease was culminated.
- It loves to sunbathe with legs and arms spread wide.
- The scenic version of it spread widely in the 1950s and the 1960s.
- The pious young scholar spread far and wide the spirit of Chassidus.
- As news spread around the city, a pall of gloom spread over the city.