Sekirov Dictionary

spread

/spɹɛd/

verb10

  1. To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
  2. to reach more and more people or places
  3. To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
  4. To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
  5. To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
  6. To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread
  7. To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
  8. To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
  9. (slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
  10. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.

noun25

  1. The act of spreading.
  2. Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
  3. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
  4. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
  5. A numerical difference.
  6. The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
  7. The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
  8. The difference between bidding and asking price.
  9. The difference between the prices of two similar items.
  10. The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
  11. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
  12. (slang) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
  13. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
  14. An expanse of land.
  15. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
  16. A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
  17. Something that has been spread.
  18. A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
  19. A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
  20. The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
  21. The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
  22. An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
  23. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
  24. Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
  25. An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
spread
/spɹiːd/

noun1

  1. An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).

verb1

  1. To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
forms

spreaded · spreadedst · sprad · spreading · spreadeth · spreads · spreadest

Phrases with spread

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