'SPREAD' definitions:
Definition of 'spread'
From: WordNet
adjective
Distributed or spread over a considerable extent; "has ties with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe" [syn: dispersed, spread]
adjective
Prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out; "a table spread with food"
adjective
Fully extended in width; "outspread wings"; "with arms spread wide" [syn: outspread, spread]
noun
Process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space [syn: spread, spreading]
noun
A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures; "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread between lending and borrowing costs" [syn: gap, spread]
noun
Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) [syn: ranch, spread, cattle ranch, cattle farm]
noun
A haphazard distribution in all directions [syn: scatter, spread]
noun
A tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes [syn: spread, paste]
noun
A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast"; "they put out quite a spread" [syn: banquet, feast, spread]
noun
Two facing pages of a book or other publication [syn: spread, spread head, spreadhead, facing pages]
noun
The expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age); "she exercised to avoid that middle-aged spread"
noun
noun
Act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time [syn: spread, spreading]
verb
Distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country" [syn: spread, distribute] [ant: collect, garner, gather, pull together]
verb
Become distributed or widespread; "the infection spread"; "Optimism spread among the population" [syn: spread, propagate]
verb
Spread across or over; "A big oil spot spread across the water" [syn: spread, overspread]
verb
Spread out or open from a closed or folded state; "open the map"; "spread your arms" [syn: unfold, spread, spread out, open] [ant: fold, fold up, turn up]
verb
Cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around]
verb
Become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" [syn: go around, spread, circulate]
verb
Strew or distribute over an area; "He spread fertilizer over the lawn"; "scatter cards across the table" [syn: spread, scatter, spread out]
verb
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"
Definition of 'Spread'
From: GCIDE
- Spread \Spread\ (spr[e^]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spread; p. pr. & vb. n. Spreading.] [OE. spreden, AS. spraedan; akin to D. spreiden, spreijen, LG. spreden, spreen, spreien, G. spreiten, Dan. sprede, Sw. sprida. Cf. Spray water flying in drops.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- He bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his tent. --Gen. xxxiii. 19. [1913 Webster]
- Here the Rhone Hath spread himself a couch. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or greater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space. [1913 Webster]
- Rose, as in a dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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 accompanied by abroad. [1913 Webster]
- They, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. --Matt. ix. 31. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table. [1913 Webster]
- Boiled the flesh, and spread the board. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- To spread cloth, to unfurl sail. [Obs.] --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To diffuse; propagate; disperse; publish; distribute; scatter; circulate; disseminate; dispense. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spread'
From: GCIDE
- Spread \Spread\ (spr[e^]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spread; p. pr. & vb. n. Spreading.] [OE. spreden, AS. spraedan; akin to D. spreiden, spreijen, LG. spreden, spreen, spreien, G. spreiten, Dan. sprede, Sw. sprida. Cf. Spray water flying in drops.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- He bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his tent. --Gen. xxxiii. 19. [1913 Webster]
- Here the Rhone Hath spread himself a couch. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or greater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space. [1913 Webster]
- Rose, as in a dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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 accompanied by abroad. [1913 Webster]
- They, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. --Matt. ix. 31. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table. [1913 Webster]
- Boiled the flesh, and spread the board. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- To spread cloth, to unfurl sail. [Obs.] --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To diffuse; propagate; disperse; publish; distribute; scatter; circulate; disseminate; dispense. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spread'
From: GCIDE
- Spread \Spread\, n.
- 1. Extent; compass. [1913 Webster]
- I have got a fine spread of improvable land. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Expansion of parts. [1913 Webster]
- No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 5. 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. [Brokers' Cant] [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Geom.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Finance) An arbitrage transaction operated by buying and selling simultaneously in two separate markets, as Chicago and New York, when there is an abnormal difference in price between the two markets. It is called a
- back spreadwhen the difference in price is less than the normal one. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 8. (Gems) Surface in proportion to the depth of a cut stone. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Spread'
From: GCIDE
- Spread \Spread\, v. i.
- 1. To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand. [1913 Webster]
- Plants, if they spread much, are seldom tall. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- Governor Winthrop, and his associates at Charlestown, had for a church a large, spreading tree. --B. Trumbull. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be made known more extensively, as news. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spread'
From: GCIDE
- Spread \Spread\, imp. & p. p. of Spread, v. [1913 Webster]
- Spread eagle. (a) An eagle with outspread wings, the national emblem of the United States. (b) The figure of an eagle, with its wings elevated and its legs extended; often met as a device upon military ornaments, and the like. (c) (Her.) An eagle displayed; an eagle with the wings and legs extended on each side of the body, as in the double-headed eagle of Austria and Russia. See Displayed, 2. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spread'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrate,
- aberration,
- accelerated,
- access,
- accessible,
- accession,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accrue,
- accruement,
- accumbent,
- accumulate,
- accumulation,
- acreage,
- addition,
- adjunct,
- advance,
- advertise,
- affirmed,
- afghan,
- aggrandized,
- aggrandizement,
- air,
- airing,
- ampliation,
- amplification,
- amplified,
- amplitude,
- announce,
- announced,
- apply,
- appreciate,
- appreciation,
- area,
- ascent,
- assign,
- attenuation,
- augmentation,
- augmented,
- balloon,
- ballooning,
- bandying,
- banner,
- banner head,
- banquet,
- barbecue,
- beam,
- become public,
- bed linen,
- bedaub,
- bedclothes,
- bedcover,
- bedding,
- bedsheet,
- bedspread,
- beefed-up,
- besmear,
- bestrew,
- bigness,
- blanket,
- bloat,
- bloated,
- bloating,
- board,
- body,
- book,
- boom,
- boost,
- boosted,
- boundaries,
- boundary,
- bounds,
- branch,
- branch out,
- bread,
- bread and butter,
- breadth,
- break,
- breed,
- broach,
- broadcast,
- broadcasting,
- broaden,
- broadened,
- broadening,
- broadness,
- brought to notice,
- bruit about,
- bruiting,
- bruiting about,
- buffalo robe,
- buildup,
- bulk,
- butter,
- buzz about,
- caliber,
- call,
- caption,
- carry,
- carry over,
- case,
- centrifugence,
- cheer,
- chink,
- circulate,
- circulated,
- circulation,
- circumfuse,
- circumfusion,
- cleave,
- cloak,
- clothes,
- coat,
- come forth,
- come out,
- comestibles,
- comfort,
- comforter,
- common knowledge,
- common property,
- communicate,
- communication,
- compass,
- conduction,
- confiture,
- conserve,
- consign,
- contagion,
- contour sheet,
- convection,
- couchant,
- couche,
- counterpane,
- cover,
- coverage,
- coverlet,
- coverlid,
- crack,
- crawling,
- creature comfort,
- crescendo,
- crevasse,
- cuisine,
- current,
- cut,
- cut open,
- dab,
- daily bread,
- daub,
- deal,
- deal in generalities,
- deal out,
- decentralization,
- declared,
- decumbent,
- deepen,
- deepened,
- deliver,
- delivery,
- deltoid,
- deploy,
- deployment,
- deport,
- deportation,
- depth,
- develop,
- developing,
- development,
- deviation,
- diameter,
- diapedesis,
- difference,
- diffract,
- diffraction,
- diffuse,
- diffused,
- diffusion,
- dilution,
- dimension,
- dimensions,
- dinner,
- discrete,
- dispart,
- dispel,
- dispensation,
- dispense,
- dispersal,
- disperse,
- dispersed,
- dispersion,
- display,
- dispread,
- disseminate,
- disseminated,
- dissemination,
- dissipate,
- dissipated,
- dissipation,
- distance,
- distance across,
- distribute,
- distributed,
- distribution,
- divaricate,
- divarication,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- divide,
- division,
- drag out,
- draped,
- draw out,
- drop head,
- dropline,
- eatables,
- ecumenicize,
- edema,
- edibles,
- eiderdown,
- elevated,
- elevation,
- emanate,
- emptiness,
- empty space,
- enamel,
- encompass,
- enhanced,
- enlarge,
- enlarged,
- enlargement,
- enlarging,
- entertainment,
- environ,
- epigraph,
- evaporation,
- evulgation,
- expand,
- expanded,
- expanding,
- expanse,
- expansion,
- expel,
- export,
- exportation,
- expulsion,
- extend,
- extended,
- extending,
- extension,
- extent,
- extradite,
- extradition,
- fan,
- fan out,
- fan-shape,
- fan-shaped,
- fanlike,
- fanned,
- fanning,
- fanning out,
- fare,
- farm,
- fast food,
- feast,
- feed,
- field,
- find vent,
- fissure,
- fitted sheet,
- flabelliform,
- flare,
- flared,
- flaring,
- flat,
- flood,
- fly about,
- fly open,
- food,
- food and drink,
- foodstuff,
- fragmentation,
- fullness,
- gain,
- gain strength,
- galactic space,
- gauge,
- generalize,
- get about,
- get abroad,
- get afloat,
- get ahead,
- get around,
- get exposure,
- gild,
- girth,
- glaze,
- globalize,
- gloss,
- go,
- go about,
- go away,
- go forth,
- go off,
- go out,
- go the rounds,
- go up,
- greatening,
- greatness,
- groveling,
- grow,
- growth,
- gush,
- hand forward,
- hand on,
- hand over,
- hanger,
- have currency,
- head,
- heading,
- headline,
- health food,
- height,
- heightened,
- herald,
- hike,
- hiked,
- hiking,
- hold,
- holding,
- homestead,
- impart,
- import,
- importation,
- in circulation,
- in print,
- incise,
- increase,
- increased,
- increasing,
- increment,
- infinite space,
- inflated,
- inflation,
- ingesta,
- intensified,
- intensify,
- interchange,
- interstellar space,
- issuance,
- issue,
- jam,
- jazzed up,
- jelly,
- jump,
- jump head,
- junk food,
- kitchen stuff,
- lacquer,
- landholding,
- lap robe,
- largeness,
- latitude,
- lay,
- lay on,
- lay open,
- lay out,
- layer,
- leap,
- legend,
- length,
- lie,
- limits,
- linen,
- lolling,
- lounging,
- lying,
- made public,
- magnification,
- magnified,
- magnitude,
- make a generalization,
- make known,
- make over,
- make public,
- mantle,
- margarine,
- mass,
- meal,
- measure,
- measurement,
- meat,
- mess,
- metastasis,
- metastasize,
- metathesis,
- metathesize,
- metempsychosis,
- migration,
- motto,
- mount,
- mounting,
- multiplication,
- multiplied,
- multiply,
- mushroom,
- mushrooming,
- mutual transfer,
- nothingness,
- oleo,
- ope,
- open,
- open up,
- osmosis,
- outer space,
- outspread,
- outstretch,
- outstretched,
- overgrow,
- overlay,
- overline,
- overrun,
- overscatter,
- oversow,
- overspread,
- paint,
- part,
- pass,
- pass on,
- pass over,
- pass the buck,
- passage,
- passing over,
- paste,
- patchwork quilt,
- patulous,
- peddle,
- peppering,
- perfuse,
- perfusion,
- periodical,
- pillow slip,
- pillowcase,
- place,
- plantation,
- plaster,
- plate,
- preserve,
- prime,
- printing,
- proclaimed,
- procumbent,
- productiveness,
- profusion,
- proliferate,
- proliferated,
- proliferating,
- proliferation,
- prolong,
- promulgate,
- promulgation,
- prone,
- pronounce,
- propagate,
- propagated,
- propagation,
- property,
- proportion,
- proportions,
- prostrate,
- protract,
- provender,
- provision,
- public,
- publication,
- publicize,
- publish,
- published,
- publishing,
- push,
- put,
- put and call,
- put apart,
- put out,
- quilt,
- radiate,
- radiation,
- radius,
- raise,
- raised,
- raising,
- ramify,
- ranch,
- range,
- ray,
- reach,
- reach out,
- recite,
- reclining,
- recumbent,
- refection,
- refreshment,
- regale,
- regalement,
- reinforced,
- relay,
- rent,
- repas,
- repast,
- repeat,
- reported,
- reposing,
- resupine,
- retail,
- rift,
- right,
- rip,
- rise,
- rive,
- robe,
- rub,
- rubric,
- rug,
- run,
- run up,
- running head,
- running title,
- scale,
- scarehead,
- scatter,
- scattered,
- scattering,
- scatterment,
- scope,
- screamer,
- see the light,
- separate,
- separation,
- set,
- shed,
- sheet,
- sheeting,
- shoot up,
- shotgun pattern,
- size,
- slap on,
- slather,
- slip,
- slit,
- smear,
- smear on,
- smooth,
- snowball,
- snowballing,
- sow,
- sow broadcast,
- sowing,
- space,
- span,
- sparse,
- spatial extension,
- spattering,
- sphere,
- splay,
- splayed,
- splaying,
- split,
- sporadic,
- spraddle,
- spraddled,
- spraddling,
- sprangle,
- sprangled,
- sprangling,
- sprawl,
- sprawled,
- sprawling,
- sprawly,
- spread about,
- spread like wildfire,
- spread on,
- spread out,
- spread with,
- spreadhead,
- spreading,
- spreading abroad,
- spreading out,
- spring open,
- sprinkling,
- stated,
- stiffened,
- stock option,
- straddle,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- strap,
- streamer,
- strengthen,
- strengthened,
- stretch,
- stretch out,
- stretched-out,
- strew,
- strewing,
- strewn,
- strip,
- strown,
- subhead,
- subheading,
- subtitle,
- superficial extension,
- superscription,
- supine,
- surface,
- surge,
- surround,
- sustenance,
- swaddle,
- sweep,
- swell,
- swelling,
- swing open,
- switch,
- swollen,
- table,
- take in,
- tap,
- tar,
- tear,
- tear open,
- telecast,
- telecasting,
- televise,
- televised,
- throw,
- throw open,
- thrust out,
- tightened,
- title,
- title page,
- tract,
- transduction,
- transfer,
- transfer of property,
- transfer property,
- transference,
- transfuse,
- transfusion,
- transit,
- transition,
- translate,
- translation,
- translocate,
- translocation,
- transmigration,
- transmigration of souls,
- transmission,
- transmit,
- transmittal,
- transmittance,
- transplace,
- transplacement,
- transplant,
- transplantation,
- transposal,
- transpose,
- transposition,
- travel,
- treat,
- trumpet,
- tucker,
- tumescence,
- turn over,
- undercoat,
- unfold,
- unfolded,
- unfurl,
- universalize,
- unroll,
- up,
- upping,
- upsurge,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- utter,
- varnish,
- vastness,
- ventilation,
- viands,
- victuals,
- vittles,
- void,
- volatilization,
- volume,
- wash,
- wax,
- waxing,
- wide-open,
- widen,
- widened,
- wideness,
- widening,
- widespread,
- width,
- wrap
Acronyms for 'SPREAD'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Systems, Programming, Review, Engineering And Development
Words containing 'SPREAD'
- Spreading,
- Spreadingly,
- spread out,
- spread over,
- Spread eagle,
- To spread cloth,
- back spread,
- center spread,
- centre spread,
- cheese spread,
- dispersed spread,
- spread head,
- spread-out,
- spreading adder,
- spreading bellflower,
- spreading dogbane,
- spreading factor,
- spreading fleabane,
- spreading pogonia,
- spread-eagle,
- spread-eagled