Word Finder - spreads

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The act of spreading.

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Something that has been spread.

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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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Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.

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• swole

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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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The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.

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The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.

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

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The difference between bidding and asking price.

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The difference between the prices of two similar items.

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

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He spread his newspaper on the table.

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To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.

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I spread my arms wide and welcomed him home.

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

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I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor.

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

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

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The missionaries quickly spread their new message across the country.

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

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I dropped my glass; the water spread quickly over the tiled floor.

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To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.

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She liked to spread butter on her toast while it was still hot.

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

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He always spreads his toast with peanut butter and strawberry jam.

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To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.

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to spread a table

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To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.

Like the ancient city, it spreads out over two terraces, one about ioo ft.

Another characteristic of cancer is that it spreads far and wide, drawing other tissues to itself by contracting fibrous bands.

In the last-named genus the peridium is double and the outer layer becomes ruptured and spreads out in the form of star-shaped pieces; the inner layer, however, merely opens at the apex by a small pore.

From Torres Strait to Dampier Land the shelf spreads out, and connects Australia with New Guinea and the Malay Archipelago.

A fault divides the latter from the mass of red-brown Old Red Sandstone that spreads south nearly to Enniskillen.

The hydrom strand has in most cases no connection with the leaves, but runs straight up the stem and spreads out below the sexual organs or the foot of the sporogonium.

The extent to which the disturbance spreads depends on the violence of the stimulationit may be confined to a few leaflets or it may extend to all the leaves of the plant.

The city, frequently called the "Damascus of the North," spreads over a narrow valley, closed on the east by a semicircle of rugged hills.

The feeling of heat is at first an internal one, but it spreads outwards to the surface and to the extremities; the skin becomes warm and red, but remains dry; the pulse becomes softer and more full, but still quick; and the throbbings occur in exposed arteries, such as the temporal.

For the understanding of these great wars between Syria and Israel (which the traditional chronology spreads over eighty years), for the significance of the crushing defeats and inspiring victories, and for the alternations of despair and hope, a careful study of all the records of relations between Israel and the north is at least instructive, and it is important to remember that, although the present historical outlines are scanty and incomplete, some - if not all - of the analogous descriptions in their present form are certainly later than the second half of the 9th century B.C., the period in which these great events fa11.4 13.

It includes an immense high and broken plateau which spreads from south-west to north-east, losing in width and altitude as it advances north-east.

Wheeler, the amnion is ruptured and turned back from covering the germ band, enclosing the yolk dorsally and becoming finally absorbed, as the ectoderm of the germ band itself spreads to form the dorsal wall.

After passing through some narrow gorges near Sisteron the bed of the river becomes wide, and spreads desolation around, the frequent overflows being kept within bounds by numerous dykes and enbankments.

As it approaches Bagdad it spreads out in a great marsh, and finally, through the Masudi canal, which encircles western Bagdad, enters the Tigris below the town.

Along the Tigris the city spreads out into suburbs, the most important of which is Kazemain, on the western side of the river northward, opposite which on the eastern side lies Muazzam.

The whole of Cambodia lies in the basin of the lower Mekong, which, entering this territory on the north, flows south for some distance, then inclines south-west as far as Pnom-penh, where it spreads into a delta and resumes a southerly course.

Some are black, very thin and curved like threads or hairs (trichites); often a group of these is seated on a small crystal of augite or magnetite and spreads outwards on all sides.

The business section is in the level bottom-lands of the river, while the residential portion spreads up the banks, which afford fine building sites with beautiful views.

The fibrils of the outer coat also show the change to a less extent, while the degeneration very rarely spreads to the middle coat.

It spreads forwards, affecting the supporting fibres outside the epithelium of the capillaries, and then passes to the connective-tissue fibrils of the veins.

On the north side of the lake the land rises gradually from the shore, and spreads out into broad plains, which are thickly settled by farmers.

Along the southern part of the Arakan coast the sea spreads over the western Miocene zone.

The viscous mass having been thrown on the casting-table, a large and heavy roller passes over it and spreads it out into a sheet.

Projected perpendicularly against a plane boundary, the motion is determined by an equal opposite vortex ring, the optical image; the vortex ring spreads out and moves more slowly as it approaches the wall; at the same time the molecular rotation, inversely as the cross-section of the vortex, is seen to increase.

The disease is characterized by the appearance of a mycelium forming white or greyish-white patches on the young leaves; this spreads quickly and attacks the older leaves and branches, and ultimately reaches the grapes.

The disease spreads by the mycelium growing ever the epidermis of the plant.

The mycelium spreads through the green parts of the plant, attacking the leaves, twigs and unripe grapes.

The grapes are not assailed until nearly full-grown, when a brownish spot appears, which spreads over the 2 FIG.

The disease spreads from grape to grape, so that as a rule many of the grapes in a bunch are destroyed.

A hummocky irregular country spreads southward, where the Silurian axis is encountered, in continuation of the southern uplands of Scotland.

Its roof is a single flat stratum of limestone; its walls are well marked by lines of stratification; dripstone also partly covers the walls, fills a deep fissure at the end of the cave, and spreads over the floor, where it mingles with an ancient bed of ashes, forming an ash-breccia (mostly firm and solid) that encloses fragments of sandstone, flint spalls, flint implements, charcoal and bones.

In the northern part of the country it spreads into several side valleys, from one of which rises the extinct volcano Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa (19,321 ft.).

It becomes less when the "oxyhydrogen" is mixed with excess of one or the other of the two reacting gases, or an inert gas such as nitrogen, because in any such case the same amount of heat spreads over a larger quantity of matter.

We see lightning before we hear the thunder which spreads out from the flash, and the more distant the flash the longer the interval between the two.

It draws off from any wave it has sent backward and so spreads the succeeding waves over a longer distance than if it had remained at rest.

Coco-nuts are grown in considerable quantities along the seashore, and rice is cultivated at Balek Palau and in the interior, but the jungle still spreads over wide areas.

The city covers the low, level bottom-land at the junction of the two rivers, and spreads over the surrounding highlands to the W., the principal residential district.

On the opposite side of the river the country spreads out low and level like a sea.

Forward from the head extends a long ramified appendage described as the " frontal shrub," backward from the fourth abdominal segment of the male spreads a fin-like expansion which is unique.

During spring, autumn, and winter in particular, the blue-grass (Poa compressa and Poa pratensis) spreads a mat, green, thick, fine and soft, over much of the country, and it is a good winter pasture; about the middle of June it blooms, and, owing to the hue of its seed vessels, gives the landscape a bluish hue.

It flourishes in light soils and is one of the few trees that will grow amongst heather; owing to the large number of "winged seeds" which are readily scattered by the wind, it spreads rapidly, springing up where the soil is dry and covering clearings or waste places.

The " woolly aphis," " American blight," or " larch blight " (Eriosoma laricis) often attacks the trees in close valleys, but rarely spreads much unless other unhealthy conditions are present.

The drafts from the dressing frame are made into little parcels of a few ounces in weight, and given to the spreader, who opens out the silk and spreads it thinly and evenly on to the feeding sheet, placing a small portion of the silk only on the sheet.

Physically Tibet may be divided into two parts, the lake region in the west and north-west, and the river region, which spreads out on three sides of the former on the east, south, and west.

On the west the belt is narrow, but towards the east it gradually widens, and north of Lago di Garda its northern boundary is suddenly deflected to the north and the zone spreads out so as to include the whole of the Dolomite mountains of Tirol.

The underground mycelium in many cases spreads wider and wider each year, often in a circular manner, and the sporophores springing from it appear in the form of a ring - the so called fairy rings.

The city, however, spreads beyond the walls, chiefly to the south and west.

Just as in a nerve fibre, when excited by a localized stimulus, the excited state spreads from the excited point to the adjacent unexcited ones, so in muscle the "contraction," when excited at a point, spreads to the adjacent uncontracted parts.

That the excited state spreads only to previously unexcited portions of the muscle fibre shows that even in the skeletal variety of muscle there exists, though only for a very brief time, a period of inexcitability.

When the slope down which a river runs has become very slight, it is unable to carry the sediment brought from higher regions nearer its source, and consequently the lower portion of the river valley becomes filled with alluvial deposits; and since in times of flood the rush of water in the high regions tears off and carries down a greater quantity of sediment than usual, the river spreads this also over the lower valley where the plain is flooded, because the rush of water is checked, and the stream in consequence drops its extra load.