Meaning of Spread | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
2. The act of spreading.
   countable, uncountable
3. Something that has been spread.
   countable, uncountable
4. A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
   countable, uncountable
5. An expanse of land.
   countable, uncountable
6. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
   countable, uncountable
7. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
   countable, uncountable
8. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
   countable, uncountable
9. Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
   countable, uncountable, usually
10. A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
    countable, uncountable
11. Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
    slang, uncountable
12. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
    countable, uncountable
13. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
    countable, uncountable
14. A numerical difference.
    countable, uncountable
15. A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
    countable, uncountable
16. The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
    countable, uncountable
17. The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
    countable, uncountable
18. The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
    countable, uncountable
19. The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
    countable, uncountable
20. An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
    countable, uncountable
21. The difference between bidding and asking price.
    countable, uncountable
22. The difference between the prices of two similar items.
    countable, uncountable
23. An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
    countable, uncountable
24. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
    countable, uncountable
25. Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
    countable, uncountable
26. The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“No flower hath that kind of spread that the woodbine hath.”

“November 29, 1712, Andrew Freeport, a letter to The Spectator I have got a fine spread of improvable lands.”

“- Can't wait till I get my own spread and won't have to put up with Joe Aguirre's crap no more.”

“Linen shawls and spreads show up in secondhand clothing stores like those in the row on St. Marks Place in New York City.”

“Ferd liked to experiment with sandwich spreads ― the one he liked most was cream-cheese, olives, anchovy and avocado, mashed up with a little mayonnaise ― but Oscar always had the same pink luncheon-meat.”

“Johnston, meanwhile, has managed to get within five miles of its target, and fires a full spread of ten torpedoes. Minutes later, at least two, possibly three, tear the bow off the hapless cruiser Kumano. First blood, unbelievably, therefore, goes to the Americans.”

“The spread is usually measured using standard deviation and variance.”

“College basketball games don't lack for gambling propositions—the moneyline, a straightforward wager on which team will win; the over-under gamble on the total number of points scored by both teams—but the most popular wager is the spread. The spread represents the predicted difference between the two teams in the final score of the game.”

“If debate is a game, then the execution of a "spread" is like a well-timed blitz in football. Convincing a judge that your opponents' arguments would cause human extinction is equivalent to a successful Hail Mary pass.”

“It's one L ur chillin just keep practicing read the ballets figure what you did wrong and practice with improvements in mind, get better at spreads and k theory debates.”

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