spreads

noun

The act of spreading.

Something that has been spread.

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

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

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

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

(military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.

(prison slang, uncountable) 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.

(business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.

(trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.

(finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.

(statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.

(trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.

(trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.

(trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.

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

(debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).

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

An expanse of land.

(geometry) 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.

(gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.

verb

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

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

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

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

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

(transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread

(transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.

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

(intransitive, transitive, debating slang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.

(intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.

To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.

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