Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SPREAD

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Definitions of SPREAD

1. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
2. The act of spreading.
3. Something that has been spread.
4. An expanse of land.
5. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
6. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
7. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
8. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
9. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
10. A numerical difference.
11. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
12. Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
13. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space. [from 13th c.]
14. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area. [from 13th c.]
15. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated. [from 13th c.]
16. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present. [from 14th c.]
17. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended. [from 14th c.]
18. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer. [from 16th c.]
19. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter. [from 16th c.]
20. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours. [from 20th c.]
21. (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
22. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
23. (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
24. (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
25. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
26. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
27. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
28. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
29. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
30. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
31. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
32. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
33. (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
34. (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
35. (intransitive, transitive, debatingslang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
36. (debatingslang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
37. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. [from 13th c.] inflection of spread

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Examples of Using SPREAD in a Sentence

• A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in following decades, developing a large domestic audience.
• Cycling is key to the city's modern character, and there are numerous biking paths and lanes spread throughout.
• The title had its origin in the monasteries of Egypt and Syria, spread through the eastern Mediterranean, and soon became accepted generally in all languages as the designation of the head of a monastery.
• A patron of Buddhism, he is credited with playing an important role in the spread of Buddhism across ancient Asia.
• He proved instrumental in the political spread of Protestantism in its early stage, ruling the Prussian lands for nearly six decades (1510–1568).
• The language also spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and settlement and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, included 470–570 million people, about a quarter of the world's population.
• In optics, aberration is a property of optical systems, such as lenses, that causes light to be spread out over some region of space rather than focused to a point.
• It spread throughout the Pyrenees to areas where languages similar to modern Basque might have been previously spoken.
• During this period, Bengal's rule and influence spread to Assam, Arakan, Tripura, Bihar, and Orissa.
• A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers.
• It proposes that Celtic culture spread westward and southward from these areas by diffusion or migration.
• Following the spread of Christianity from the Levant to Europe and North Africa during the early Roman Empire, Christendom has been divided in the pre-existing Greek East and Latin West.
• It is rarely used as a therapeutic medical procedure, such as when cancer has developed in or spread to the clitoris.
• To permit this without undue interference between the users, CDMA employs spread spectrum technology and a special coding scheme (where each transmitter is assigned a code).
• Colonialism developed as a concept describing European colonial empires of the modern era, which spread globally from the 15th century to the mid-20th century, spanning 35% of Earth's land by 1800 and peaking at 84% by the beginning of World War I.
• The first significant evolutionary radiation of life on land occurred during the Devonian, as free-sporing land plants (pteridophytes) began to spread across dry land, forming extensive coal forests which covered the continents.
• Within a few years, the movement had spread to New York City and a variety of artistic centers in Europe and Asia.
• The migration rate accelerated during the period of 1979 to 1981, this marked the beginning of the civil unrest and the spread of political killings.
• The family is large, with about 4,250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it the 14th most species-rich family of flowering plants.
• He was originally the patron god of the city of Eridu, but later the influence of his cult spread throughout Mesopotamia and to the Canaanites, Hittites and Hurrians.

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