spread
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
cartomancy
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gambling
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government
human-sciences
mathematics
military
mysticism
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politics
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statistics
trading
war
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.
Inflected forms:
form: spreads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spreading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spread
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spread
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spreads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He spread his newspaper on the table.
gloss: To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I spread my arms wide and welcomed him home.
gloss: To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor.
gloss: To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
As the Erzurum affair indicated, the janissaries in the provinces and in the capital city were in close touch, and thus the movements were quick to spread to Istanbul.
I placed my hands on his cheeks, and this time, I kissed him. “Don't worry, I'm not going to let anything spoil our day. It's just you and me.” A sad smile spread across his face, and I could tell he wanted to believe me, but didn't.
gloss: To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The missionaries quickly spread their new message across the country.
gloss: To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I dropped my glass; the water spread quickly over the tiled floor.
gloss: To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She liked to spread butter on her toast while it was still hot.
gloss: To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He always spreads his toast with peanut butter and strawberry jam.
gloss: To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
pos: verb
examples: to spread a table
And Enid brought sweet cakes to make them cheer, / And in her veil enfolded, manchet bread. / And then, because their hall must also serve / For kitchen, boil'd the flesh, and spread the board, / And stood behind, and waited on the three.
gloss: To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: This often sounds like the rap of a demented DJ: the way she moves has got to be good news, can't get loose till I feel the juice— suck and spread, bitch, yeah bounce for me baby.
Yes I wore a slinky red thing. Does that mean I should spread for you, your friends, your father, Mr Ed?
I don't want to move too fast, but / Can't resist your sexy ass / Just spread, spread for me; / (I can't, I can't wait to get you home)
gloss: The act of spreading.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: No flower hath that kind of spread that the woodbine hath.
gloss: Something that has been spread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An expanse of land.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: November 29, 1712, Andrew Freeport, a letter to The Spectator
I have got a fine spread of improvable lands.
gloss: A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: - Can't wait till I get my own spread and won't have to put up with Joe Aguirre's crap no more.
gloss: A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Linen shawls and spreads show up in secondhand clothing stores like those in the row on St. Marks Place in New York City.
gloss: A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A numerical difference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The spread is usually measured using standard deviation and variance.
gloss: The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The difference between bidding and asking price.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The difference between the prices of two similar items.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Synonyms: disseminate
circulate
propagate
diffuse
put about
straddle
Derived words: antispread
antispreader
aspread
bandspread
bear spread
bedspread
bespread
bespreading
bid-ask spread
broadspread
broadspreading
calendar spread
center spread
centerspread
centre spread
cheese spread
chocolate spread
community spread
credit spread
cytospread
despread
despreading
diagonal spread
dispread
dispreader
dispreading
double-page spread
double spread
flame spread
forespread
forspread
landspreading
manspreading
middle-age spread
midspread
misspread
muckspreader
muck spreader
nonspreadable
outspread
outspreading
outspreadingly
overspread
overspreadest
overspreadeth
overspreading
photospread
ratio spread
re-spread
respread
respreading
reverse ratio spread
ribbon spread
rune spread
sandwich spread
sea-floor spreading
seafloor spreading
secretary spread
spark spread
spraddle
spreadability
spreadable
spreadably
spreadation
spread bet
spread betting
spreadboard
spread-eagle
spreadeagle
spread eagle
spread-eagled
spreadeagling
spreadee
spreader
spreadest
spreadeth
Spreadhead
spreadin'
spreading
spreading elm
spreading gooseberry
spreadingly
spreadingness
spread it on thick
spread like wildfire
spread limit
spreadly
spreadmart
spread oneself thin
spread oneself too thin
spread one's legs
spread one's net wide
spread one's wings
spread operator
spread out
spreadsheet
spreadsheeting
spreadsheetlike
spread spectrum communication
spread syntax
spread tail
spread the bed
spread the word
spreadwing
spready
superspreader
TED spread
time spread
underspread
unspread
unspreadable
upspread
widerspread
widespread
wide-spread
widespreadness
wingspread
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