Word Finder - spread

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(transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.

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(transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread

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(transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.

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(intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.

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(transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.

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(intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.

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(transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.

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(transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.

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To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.

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(intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.

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The act of spreading.

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Something that has been spread.

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(cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.

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An expanse of land.

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A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.

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A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).

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A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.

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(bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.

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(military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.

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(prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.

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An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.

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Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.

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A numerical difference.

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(statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.

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(business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.

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(trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.

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(trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.

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(trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.

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(trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.

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(trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.

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(finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.

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(geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.

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The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

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Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.

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(gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.

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(intransitive, transitive, debating slang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.

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(debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).