spread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: spreads
Etymology: From Middle English spreden, from Old English sprǣdan (“to spread, expand”), from Proto-Germanic *spraidijaną (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian spreede (“to spread”), West Frisian spriede (“to spread”), North Frisian spriedjen (“to spread”), Dutch spreiden (“to spread”), Low German spreden (“to spread”), German spreiten (“to spread, spread out”), Danish sprede (“to spread”), Norwegian spre, spreie (“to spread, disseminate”), Swedish sprida (“to spread”), Latin spernō, spargō, Ancient Greek σπείρω (speírō), Persian سپردن (sepordan, “to deposit”), English spurn.
Senses: examples: text: No flower hath that kind of spread that the woodbine hath.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of spreading.
glosses: Something that has been spread.
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
examples: November 29, 1712, Andrew Freeport, a letter to The Spectator
I have got a fine spread of improvable lands.
glosses: An expanse of land.
examples: text: - Can't wait till I get my own spread and won't have to put up with Joe Aguirre's crap no more.
ref: 2005, Brokeback Mountain (film), 00:11:50
roman: - I'm savin' for a place myself.
glosses: A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
examples: text: Linen shawls and spreads show up in secondhand clothing stores like those in the row on St. Marks Place in New York City.
ref: 1975, Douglas Matthews, Suzanne Wymelenberg, Susan Cheever Cowley, Secondhand is Better, page 166:
glosses: A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
glosses: A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
examples: text: Ferd liked to experiment with sandwich spreads ― the one he liked most was cream-cheese, olives, anchovy and avocado, mashed up with a little mayonnaise ― but Oscar always had the same pink luncheon-meat.
ref: 1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction:
qualifier: bread
glosses: Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
examples: text: Johnston, meanwhile, has managed to get within five miles of its target, and fires a full spread of ten torpedoes. Minutes later, at least two, possibly three, tear the bow off the hapless cruiser Kumano. First blood, unbelievably, therefore, goes to the Americans.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 18:01 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
synonyms: swole
glosses: Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
glosses: An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
glosses: Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
glosses: A numerical difference.
examples: text: The spread is usually measured using standard deviation and variance.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
topics: business
economics
sciences
glosses: The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
trading
glosses: The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: The difference between bidding and asking price.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The difference between the prices of two similar items.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
glosses: The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
glosses: Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
examples: text: College basketball games don't lack for gambling propositions—the moneyline, a straightforward wager on which team will win; the over-under gamble on the total number of points scored by both teams—but the most popular wager is the spread. The spread represents the predicted difference between the two teams in the final score of the game.
ref: 2015 April 10, John Paul Rollert, “Vegas Odds”, in Harper's Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Harper's Magazine Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2022:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
Synonyms: straddle
Derived terms: sense: all parts of speech
word: antispread
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word: antispreader
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word: bandspread
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word: bear spread
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word: bedspread
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word: bespread
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word: bespreading
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word: bid-ask spread
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word: broadspread
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word: broadspreading
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word: calendar spread
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word: center spread
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word: centerspread
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word: centre spread
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word: cheese spread
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word: chocolate spread
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word: community spread
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word: credit spread
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word: despread
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word: despreading
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word: diagonal spread
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word: dispread
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word: dispreader
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word: dispreading
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word: double-page spread
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word: double spread
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word: flame spread
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word: forespread
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word: forspread
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word: landspreading
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word: manspreading
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word: middle-age spread
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word: midspread
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word: muck spreader
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word: muckspreader
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word: nonspreadable
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word: outspread
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word: outspreading
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word: outspreadingly
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word: overspread
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word: overspreadest
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word: overspreadeth
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word: overspreading
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word: photospread
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word: ratio spread
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word: re-spread
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word: respread
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word: respreading
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word: reverse ratio spread
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word: ribbon spread
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word: rune spread
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word: sandwich spread
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word: sea-floor spreading
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word: seafloor spreading
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word: secretary spread
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word: spark spread
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word: spreadability
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word: spreadable
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word: spreadably
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word: spread bet
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word: spread betting
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word: spreadeagle
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word: spread-eagle
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word: spread eagle
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word: spread-eagled
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word: spreadeagling
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word: spreadee
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word: spreader
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word: spreadest
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word: spreadeth
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word: spreadin'
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word: spreading
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word: spreading elm
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word: spreading gooseberry
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word: spreadingly
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word: spreadingness
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word: spread it on thick
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word: spread like wildfire
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word: spread limit
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word: spreadly
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word: spreadmart
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word: spread oneself thin
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word: spread oneself too thin
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word: spread one's legs
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word: spread one's net wide
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word: spread one's wings
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word: spread operator
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word: spread out
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word: spreadsheet
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word: spreadsheeting
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word: spreadsheetlike
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word: spread spectrum communication
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word: spread syntax
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word: spread tail
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word: spread the bed
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word: spread the word
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word: spready
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word: superspreader
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word: TED spread
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word: time spread
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word: unspread
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word: unspreadable
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word: widerspread
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word: wide-spread
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word: widespread
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word: widespreadness
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word: wingspread