Word Finder - spread

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The act of spreading.

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Something that has been spread.

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A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.

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An expanse of land.

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A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.

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A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).

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A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.

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(bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.

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Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.

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• swole

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An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.

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Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.

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A numerical difference.

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The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.

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The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.

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The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.

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The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.

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An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.

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The difference between bidding and asking price.

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The difference between the prices of two similar items.

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An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.

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The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

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To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.

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He spread his newspaper on the table.

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To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.

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I spread my arms wide and welcomed him home.

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To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.

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I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor.

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To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.

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To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.

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The missionaries quickly spread their new message across the country.

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To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.

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I dropped my glass; the water spread quickly over the tiled floor.

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To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.

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She liked to spread butter on her toast while it was still hot.

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To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.

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He always spreads his toast with peanut butter and strawberry jam.

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To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.

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to spread a table

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To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.

The table was spread and supper was ready.

He took the blanket from her and spread it on the ground.

A smile spread across Elisabeth's face as Jackson crooned, "Nice dog."

Supply chains are spread across the world.

Spread everyone out and have them start searching.

His lips spread into a grim line.

I wonder if she remembers how eagerly and gladly they spread their wings and flew away.

They did another x-ray this morning and the infection has spread to the other lung.

A flush spread across the woman's face, and anger glittered in her eyes.

And that that same technology would allow his questions to be spread across Europe, thereby igniting the Protestant Reformation?

The word spread on the street that the family was hot after Billie and Willie Wassermann.

The vase had a very small neck, and spread out at the top like a bowl.

They spread their wings and opened their mouths to show that they understood his words.

Sarah's smile spread far as it would go.

He piled ham, sandwich spread, lettuce, a tomato and bread in his arms and allowed the door to shut on its own.

The space underneath the roof, where they stood, permitted them to see on all sides of the tall building, and they looked with much curiosity at the city spread out beneath them.

If we were to spread any false crumbs, she would be the best source.

Iggy found a temporary solution to stop the spread, and I sealed the area around the town.

On two sides black curling clouds of smoke rose and spread from the fires.

He injected the gel into her arm, and warmth spread through her.

One school of thought held that he was a victim of unproven rumors about Billy Langstrom's accident, spread to Denver by Billy's high school friends.

Edith Shipton's jaw dropped and a panicked look spread across her white face.

I thought you said they were getting ready to spread Shipton's body parts around to the sick and needy and then plant what was left.

She continued to laugh, "Don't you worry that news will spread, and the townspeople will come after you with torches and stakes?"

Even so, you want to be wary of the spread of radiation in the aquifers.

We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

A slow smile spread over his mouth and spilled into his eyes.

Her green eyes pierced him to the core, and a light flush spread across her skin.

A soggy parking ticket was spread over his windshield by the first sweep of the wipers.

The threads used in making elastic webbing are usually cut from spread sheets.

Molten glass is spread upon a large iron plate of the required shape and dimensions.

Copper, too, was worked with skill; indeed, it is possible that Babylonia was the original home of copper-working, which spread westward with the civilization to which it belonged.

The crowd spread out again more evenly, and the clerk led Petya--pale and breathless--to the Tsar-cannon.

Deidre flung herself into his arms, pulling his face down to spread kisses across his features.

They are evenly spread, though heavier in the north.

About the same time the art was introduced into England by French refugees, and soon afterwards it spread also to America.

Peter Bihari and Maurice Kai-man have in various writings spread the ideas of Herbart.

Their sect however continued to spread in Bulgaria, where in 969 John Zimiskes settled a new colony of them at Philippopolis.

The Cretaceous beds form a band along each side of the Cordillera and along the southern flank of the Caribbean chain, and they spread over the greater part of the provinces of Falcon and Lara.

The confusion spread to the troops behind them, and the action ended in wild flight and slaughter.

The doctrines of Sylvius became widely spread in Holland and Germany; less so in France and Italy.

C. Girtanner (1760-1800) first began to spread the new ideas (though giving them out as his own), but Weikard was the first avowed advocate of the system.

On his death the Witan which had attended his funeral elected to succeed him Harold, the foremost man in England, and the leader who had attempted to check the spread of the Norman influence fostered by the Confessor.

Silver oxide, mixed as a paint and spread on the surface of a piece of glass and heated, gives a permanent yellow stain.

The blower then heats the end of the cylinder again and rapidly spins the pipe about its axis; the centrifugal effect is sufficient to spread the soft glass at the end to a radius equal to that of the rest of the cylinder.

In the 16th century the fashion for using glass vessels of ornamental character spread from Italy into France and England.

The operations of the army were extended in 1880 to the United States, in 1881 to Australia, and spread to the European continent, to India, Ceylon and elsewhere, "General" Booth himself being an indefatigable traveller, organizer and speaker.

Here in Akkad the first Semitic empire was founded, Semitic conquerors or settlers spread from Sippara to Susa, Khana to the east of the Tigris was occupied by " West Semitic " tribes, and " out of " Babylonia " went forth the Assyrian."

The friar's sermons against ecclesiastical corruption, and especially against the pope, resulted in his excommunication by the latter, in consequence of which he lost much of his influence and immorality spread once more.

Even in the 19th century reports were spread of communities in which Indian blood was supposedly still plainly dominant; but the conclusion of the competent scientists who have investigated such rumours has been that at least absolutely nothing of the language and traditions of the aborigines has survived.