Spread

  • 41spread — 1. verb 1) he spread the map out Syn: lay out, open out, unfurl, unroll, roll out, straighten out, fan out, stretch out, extend 2) the landscape spread out below Syn: extend …

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  • 42spread — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. scatter, strew; disseminate, diffuse, circulate; cover; unfold, stretch; part, separate; show, display; expand, disperse, deploy. n. diffusion, expansion; extent, expanse; bedspread, coverlet; meal,… …

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  • 43spread — {{11}}spread (n.) 1690s, extent or expanse of something, from SPREAD (Cf. spread) (v.). Meaning copious meal dates from 1822; sense of food for spreading (butter, jam, etc.) is from 1812. Sense of bed cover is recorded from 1848, originally… …

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  • 44spread — v 1.Often spread out stretch, extend, enlarge, widen, broaden, augment, aggrandize, amplify; stretch out, draw out, lengthen, elongate, protract, prolongate, drag out; expand, dilate, distend, swell, bloat; grow, develop, increase, advance,… …

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  • 45spread — be·spread; di·spread; spread; spread·abil·i·ty; spread·able; spread·ing·ly; …

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  • 46spread — Synonyms and related words: aberrate, aberration, accelerated, access, accessible, accession, accretion, accrual, accrue, accruement, accumbent, accumulate, accumulation, acreage, addition, adjunct, advance, advertise, affirmed, afghan,… …

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  • 47Spread —   The difference between two or more prices. Three types of spread have other names:   Alligator spread. A profit made on an option where all of the profit is taken by the broker as commission.   Bid offer spread. The difference between the bid… …

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  • 48spread — verb (past and past participle spread) 1》 open out so as to increase in surface area, width, or length.     ↘stretch out (limbs, hands, fingers, or wings) so that they are far apart. 2》 extend or distribute over a wide area or a specified period… …

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  • 49spread —   Hāli i, laha.   Also: a ai (as a sore); a ama (the fingers); apakau (as sunlight); hāli i pili (as rain over pili grass); hela (as the arms); hola, hohola, pāhola, uhola, holopapa, hihi, hihina; pa ahihi, malele (here and there); pāhihi, oha,… …

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  • 50spread — 1. verb /spɹɛd/ a) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space. He spread his newspaper on the table. b) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.… …

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