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To Spread
To cover the surface of one thing with something else, like butter on bread
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SPREAD | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary
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If you spread something
somewhere , you open it out or arrange it over a place or surface, so that all of it can be
seen or used easily.
She spread a towel on the sand and lay on it. [ VERB noun preposition ]
His coat was spread over the bed. [ VERB noun preposition ]
Spread out means the same as
spread .
He extracted several glossy prints and spread them out on a low coffee table.
[ VERB noun PARTICLE ]
In his room, Tom was spreading out a map of Scandinavia on the bed.
[ VERB PARTICLE noun ]
If you spread your arms,
hands ,
fingers , or legs, you stretch them out until they are
far apart.
Sitting on the floor, spread your legs as far as they will go without overstretching. [ VERB noun adverb ]
He stepped back and spread his hands wide. 'You are most welcome to our home.'
[ VERB noun adjective ]
Spread out means the same as
spread .
David spread out his hands as if showing that he had no explanation.
[ VERB PARTICLE noun ]
You need a bed that's large enough to let you spread yourself out.
[ VERB noun PARTICLE ]
If you spread a substance on a surface or spread the surface with the substance, you put a thin layer of the substance over the surface.
Spread the mixture in the cake tin and bake for 30 minutes. [ VERB noun preposition ]
A thick layer of wax was spread over the surface. [ VERB noun preposition ]
Spread the bread with the cheese.
[ VERB noun + with ]
Spread is a soft food which is put on bread.
...a wholemeal salad roll with low fat spread.
If something spreads or is spread by people, it gradually reaches or affects a larger and larger area or more and more
people.
The industrial revolution which started a couple of hundred years ago in Europe is
now spreading across the world.
[ VERB preposition/adverb ]
...the sense of fear spreading in residential neighborhoods.
[ VERB ]
He was fed-up with the lies being spread about him.
[ be VERB -ed ]
The greatest hope for reform is the gradual spread of information.
Thanks to the spread of modern technology, trained workers are now more vital than
ever.
If something such as a liquid, gas, or
smoke spreads or is spread , it moves
outwards in all directions so that it covers a larger area.
Fire spread rapidly after a chemical truck exploded.
[ VERB ]
A dark red stain was spreading across his shirt.
[ VERB preposition ]
In Northern California, a wildfire has spread a haze of smoke over 200 miles. [ VERB noun preposition ]
The situation was complicated by the spread of a serious forest fire.
If you spread something over a period of time, it takes place regularly or continuously over that period, rather
than
happening at one time.
You can eat all your calorie allowance in one go, or spread it over the day.
[ V n + over ]
The course is spread over a five week period.
[ V n over n ]
Synonyms: space out ,
stagger
More Synonyms of spread
If you spread something such as
wealth or work, you distribute it evenly or equally.
...policies that spread the state's wealth more evenly.
[ VERB noun ]
The loss of jobs has been far more evenly spread across the regions than it was during
the early 1980s. [ VERB noun preposition ]
There are easier ways to encourage the even spread of wealth.
[ + of ]
A spread of ideas, interests, or other things is a wide variety of them.
...primary schools with a typical spread of ability.
[ + of ]
We have an enormous spread of industries around the country.
A spread is a large meal,
especially one that has been prepared for a special
occasion .
A spread is two pages of a book,
magazine , or newspaper that are opposite each other when you open it at a particular place.
There was a double-page spread of a dinner for 46 people.
Spread is used to refer to the difference between the price that a
seller
wants someone to pay for a particular stock or share and the price that the
buyer is willing to pay.
Market makers earn their livings from the spread between buying and selling prices.
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to extend or
unfold or be extended or unfolded to the fullest
width
to extend or cause to extend over a larger
expanse of space or time
the political unrest spread over several years
to apply or be applied in a
coating
butter does not spread very well when cold
to
distribute or be distributed over an area or region
to display or be displayed in its fullest extent
to send or be sent out in all directions;
disseminate or be disseminated
(of
rails , wires, etc) to force or be forced
apart
to increase the
breadth of (a part), esp to
flatten the head of a
rivet by
pressing ,
hammering , or
forging
to lay out (
hay ) in a
relatively thin layer to dry
to
scatter (seed,
manure , etc) over a relatively wide area
to make (oneself)
agreeable to a large number of people, often
potential sexual
partners
to narrow and
lengthen the
aperture of (the
lips ) as for the
articulation of a front
vowel , such as ( iː ) in English see ( siː
)
the act or process of spreading;
diffusion ,
dispersal ,
expansion , etc
the spread of the Christian religion
an extent of space or time;
stretch
a
ranch or relatively large
tract of land
the limit of something
fully extended
a large meal or
feast , esp when it is laid out on a table
a food which can be spread on
bread , etc
two
facing
pages in a book or other
publication
the difference between the
bid and offer prices
quoted by a market
maker
the
excess of the price at which stock is offered for public sale over the price paid for the
same stock by an
underwriter
the
apparent size of a
gemstone when viewed from above expressed in
carats
a diamond with a spread of four carats
extended or stretched out, esp to the fullest extent
(of the lips) forming a long narrow aperture
(of speech sounds)
articulated with spread lips
( iː ) in English "feel" is a spread vowel
Collins English Dictionary . Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
to draw out so as to display more fully; open or stretch out so as to cover more
space; unfold or
unfurl
to move apart (the fingers, arms, legs, wings, etc.)
to distribute over a surface or area; scatter;
disperse
to distribute in a thin layer;
smear
to cover by smearing ( with something)
to spread payments over a two-year period
to cause to be widely or more widely known, felt,
existent , etc.; disseminate;
propagate ;
diffuse
to cover,
overlay , or
deck ( with something)
to record in full; enter ( on a record)
to flatten out (a rivet, etc.) by hammering
to extend itself; be extended or
expanded
to be made widely or more widely known, felt, existent, etc.; be disseminated, propagated,
or diffused
to be pushed apart or farther apart
to be of such
consistency that it can be distributed in a thin layer, as
butter ; be capable of being smeared
the act of spreading;
extension ; expansion; diffusion
the extent to which something is spread or can be spread
the interval or difference between the highest and lowest figures of a set, as of
the scores of a test
the difference between related prices, rates, etc., as that between the prices at
which a
broker buys and sells shares of a stock
in
betting , the number of points by which a team, esp. a
football team, is
expected to defeat its opponent
an expanse; extent; stretch;
compass
two facing pages of a newspaper, magazine, etc., treated as a single
continuous sheet, as in
advertising
printed matter set across a page, or across several
columns , of a newspaper, magazine, etc.
a cloth cover for a table, bed, etc.
any soft substance, as
jam , butter, etc., used for spreading on bread
a meal, esp. one with a wide variety of food
a ranch, or any large
farm or
estate
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
The spread of a financial instrument is the difference between the selling price and the
purchase price.
If a seller narrows the spread , they reduce the difference between the bid and ask prices of a security.
The size of the spread from one asset to another will differ mainly because of the difference in liquidity
of each asset.
The spread of a financial instrument is the difference between the selling price and the purchase
price.
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A spread is a soft food which you put on bread.
...a salad roll with low fat spread.
open out If you spread something somewhere, you open it out.
She spread a towel on the sand and lay on it.
butter, jam If you spread something on a surface, you put it all over the surface.
She was spreading butter on the bread.
reach a larger area If something spreads , it reaches a larger area.
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