Spread
[spred] or [sprɛd]
Definition
(noun.) act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time.
(noun.) the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age); 'she exercised to avoid that middle-aged spread'.
(noun.) two facing pages of a book or other publication.
(noun.) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space.
(noun.) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes.
(verb.) distribute or disperse widely; 'The invaders spread their language all over the country'.
(verb.) become distributed or widespread; 'the infection spread'; 'Optimism spread among the population'.
(verb.) strew or distribute over an area; 'He spread fertilizer over the lawn'; 'scatter cards across the table'.
(verb.) spread across or over; 'A big oil spot spread across the water'.
(verb.) cover by spreading something over; 'spread the bread with cheese'.
(verb.) distribute over a surface in a layer; 'spread cheese on a piece of bread'.
(adj.) prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out; 'a table spread with food' .
Editor: Stephen--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Spread
(v. t.) To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.
(v. t.) To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.
(v. t.) To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad.
(v. t.) To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.
(v. t.) To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
(v. t.) To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.
(v. t.) To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.
(v. i.) To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.
(v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.
(v. i.) To be made known more extensively, as news.
(v. i.) To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.
(n.) Extent; compass.
(n.) Expansion of parts.
(n.) A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
(n.) A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.
(n.) A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.
(n.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
(-) imp. & p. p. of Spread, v.
Editor: Ramon
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Extend, expand, mantle, stretch, dilate.[2]. Disperse, scatter, distribute, diffuse.[3]. Publish, divulge, propagate, disseminate, circulate, promulgate, make known, make public, spread abroad.[4]. Unfold, unfurl, open.[5]. Cover, overspread.
v. n. [1]. Extend, be expanded.[2]. Be dispersed, be scattered.[3]. Circulate, be circulated, be spread abroad.
n. [1]. Extent, reach, compass.[2]. Dissemination, circulation, propagation.
Typed by Chloe
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Extend, stretch, expand, open, unfurl, divulge, propagate, publish, disperse,diffuse, overlay, distribute, scatter, circulate, disseminate, ramify
ANT:Contract, furl, gather, fold, close, shut, secrete, suppress, confine,restrict, repress, hush, conceal, recal, collect, stagnate, concentrate,localize
Checker: Lorenzo
Definition
v.t. to scatter abroad or in all directions: to stretch: to extend: to overlay: to shoot out as branches: to circulate as news: to cause to affect numbers as a disease: to diffuse: to set with provisions as a table.—v.i. to extend or expand in all directions: to be extended or stretched: to be propagated or circulated:—pa.t. and pa.p. spread.—n. extent: compass: expansion of parts: that which is spread out a feast: a cover for a bed or a table.—adj. having a broad surface: shallower than the standard.—adj. Spread′-ea′gle like an eagle with the wings stretched out bombastic boastful.—n. (naut.) a person seized in the rigging a passenger thus made to pay his entrance forfeit.—ns. Spread′-ea′gleism a bombastic and frothy patriotism; Spread′er one who or that which spreads one who publishes or extends: any machine or implement for helping to scatter.—p.adj. Spread′ing.—adv. Spread′ingly increasingly.—Spread a fleet to keep more open order.
Edited by Edith
Examples
- These got fairly to work at the beginning of the century, and the uses of machinery spread to the treatment of leather. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A people called the Cimmerians appear in the districts of Lake Urumiya and Van, and shortly after Aryans have spread from Armenia to Elam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her perpetual study was to relieve us from labour and to spread ease and even elegance over our altered mode of life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Meanwhile the water strains through the wire cloth, leaving a thin layer of moist interlaced fibre spread in a white sheet over the surface of the belt. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The word was taken up by the students of Harvard University, and gradually spread throughout the whole country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I watched to see whether it would spread: but no; as it did not diminish, so it did not enlarge. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The fund was, of course, for the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their maintenance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The buffalo-skins, doubled in fours, were spread all along one side, and four men, with great difficulty, lifted the heavy form of Tom into it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Replacing her daughter on the couch, she smoothed the pillow and spread the sheet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He made these of honey, of barley, and, as the Aryan tribes spread southward, of the grape. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When the bed is finished, the strips are clamped with steel clamps, the turned-up ends of which firmly grip the sides of the bed, thus preventing warping or spreading. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Brotherhood through sorrow, sorrow for common sufferings and for irreparable mutual injuries, is spreading and increasing throughout the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Indeed, you are doing a very unkind thing in spreading the report, and you will find that you have though you will not believe me now. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- This cross wall should be so worked into the side walls as to hold them securely, and thus prevent the silo from spreading on the sides. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- But how your practice is spreading! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- One of the difficulties in silo construction is to avoid spreading of the building, which sometimes occurs through lateral pressure of the contents when settling. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Its top is spreading, and is ornamented with a thick and glossy foliage. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If well spiked there will be no danger from spreading at the corners. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It almost made him sick to see the wave of a table-cloth when the servants were spreading it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In semi-civilised countries, with little free communication, the spreading of a new sub-breed will be a slow process. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It stands up high and spreads far abroad, and is unfathomably deep. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Here it is certain, the imagination spreads out the whole figure. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Through all the world spreads the suspicion that this scheme of things might be remade, and remade better, and that our present evils need not be. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What am I to do to fill the interval of time which spreads between me and the grave? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It roots deeply where it spreads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Dull Englishman as you are, the land of romance spreads her wonders in vain for you. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- There was a spreading, though, as a cobra's hood spreads. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The flame soon spreads from the wick to the overflowing oil and in consequence the lamp blazes and an explosion may result. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- All culture begins with private men and spreads outward from them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Tell the grand inquisitor and his council from me to be at their posts, and to lay the axe at the root of the evil before it spreads further. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: McDonald