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 word spread quickly around town about Till's alleged actions.
  • 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.
  • When the blog Chicks in the Huddle broke the news, the word spread like wildfire.
  • The word spread beyond the social networking on Joga.com through many non-Nike websites, as soccer amateurs sought to co-opt others.
  • As the word spread through the upper levels of government that day, it would be remembered, one could almost hear the sighs of relief.
  • When the word spread that Bose Hubbard was going to crush some poor devil, the dance hall emptied as people rushed to watch the spectacle.
  • As the Grateful Dead toured the globe through the '70s and '80s, playing hundreds of shows a year - the term spread though the Dead underground.
  • "The word spread pretty quickly around here: They had service and nice planes," said Gary Adams , senior vice president of Anchor/Russell Capital Advisors LLC, a Boston money-management firm.

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