Spread
Definitions
- An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
- The act of spreading.
- Something that has been spread.
- A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- An expanse of land.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
- Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- A numerical difference.
- A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
- The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- The difference between bidding and asking price.
- The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
Conjugation
Browse the table or drill it — all tenses, moods, and persons of Spread.
Equivalents
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Cymraegtaeniad
فارسیافشاندن
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Հայերենքսել
ქართულიავრცელებს
Latviešusviests
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Polskibufetpodzielićrozłożyćrozprzestrzeniaćrozprzestrzeniać sięrozsmarowaćrozsmarowywaćsmarowaćsmarowidłospread
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اردوپھیلاو
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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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