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Spread   /sprɛd/   Listen
Spread

verb
(past & past part. spread; pres. part. spreading)
1.
Distribute or disperse widely.  Synonym: distribute.
2.
Become distributed or widespread.  Synonym: propagate.  "Optimism spread among the population"
3.
Spread across or over.  Synonym: overspread.
4.
Spread out or open from a closed or folded state.  Synonyms: open, spread out, unfold.  "Spread your arms"
5.
Cause to become widely known.  Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate.  "Circulate a rumor" , "Broadcast the news"
6.
Become widely known and passed on.  Synonyms: circulate, go around.  "The story went around in the office"
7.
Strew or distribute over an area.  Synonyms: scatter, spread out.  "Scatter cards across the table"
8.
Move outward.  Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread out.
9.
Cover by spreading something over.
10.
Distribute over a surface in a layer.
noun
1.
Process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space.  Synonym: spreading.
2.
A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.  Synonym: gap.  "The spread between lending and borrowing costs"
3.
Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).  Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, ranch.
4.
A haphazard distribution in all directions.  Synonym: scatter.
5.
A tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes.  Synonym: paste.
6.
A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed.  Synonyms: banquet, feast.  "The Thanksgiving feast" , "They put out quite a spread"
7.
Two facing pages of a book or other publication.  Synonyms: facing pages, spread head, spreadhead.
8.
The expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age).
9.
Decorative cover for a bed.  Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, bedspread, counterpane.
10.
Act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time.  Synonym: spreading.
adjective
1.
Distributed or spread over a considerable extent.  Synonym: dispersed.  "Eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe"
2.
Prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out.
3.
Fully extended in width.  Synonym: outspread.  "With arms spread wide"



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"Spread" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the other Christian churches have seen the wisdom of appealing to, and availing themselves of, the child-power in social and socio-religious questions. Not a little of the great spread of the temperance movement in America and Europe of recent years is due to the formation of children's societies,—Bands of Hope, Blue Ribbon Clubs, Junior Temperance Societies and Prohibition Clubs, Young Templars' Associations, Junior Father Matthew Leagues, and the like,— where ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... thus to love he gave his days In loyal worship, scorning praise, How spread their lures for him in vain, Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain! He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty than live ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... age liked the butter spread thick, and Erasmus' was the best butter. He relieved his mind the same day in a letter to Batt—which he did not shrink from publishing in the same volume with his effusion to the Lady Anne: 'It is now a year since the money was promised, and yet all you can say is, "I ...
— The Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London • P. S. Allen
... be reveng'd upon your enemies? Or to snare those who spread their snares for you? —Alas! why have not I your youth and beauty, ...
— The Comedies of Terence • Publius Terentius Afer
... himself of the skill of Peter Blood. The doctor went to work zealously and zestfully, and wrought so ably that, by his ministrations and by improving the condition of his fellow-captives, he checked the spread of the disease. ...
— Captain Blood • Rafael Sabatini


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