Spread

Verb

 * 1)  To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
 * 2)  To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
 * 3)  To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
 * 4)  To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
 * 5)  To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
 * 6)  To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
 * 7)  To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
 * 8)  To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
 * 9)  To open one’s legs.

Noun

 * 1) The act of spreading or something that has been spread.
 * 2) An expanse of land.
 * 3) A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
 * 4) A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
 * 5) Any form of food designed to be spread onto a slice of bread etc.
 * 6) An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
 * 7) A numerical difference.
 * 8)  The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
 * 9)  The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
 * 10)  The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
 * 11)  The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
 * 12)  An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
 * 13)  The difference between bidding and asking price.
 * 14)  The difference between the prices of two similar items.

Adjectives for Spread
stunning; mortal; cloudless; dainty; solemn; delicious; immeasurable; tasty; delectable; eye-filling.

Verbs for Spread
augment—; confine—; diminish—; enhance—; enlarge—; exaggerate—; expand—; extend—; extenuate—; heighten—; intensify—; limit—; magnify—; prevent—; reduce—; swell—; —embraces; —ranges.

Adverbs for Spread
insidiously; contagiously; swiftly; maliciously.

Synonyms
straddle; disseminate; circulate; propagate; put about;

Derived terms
spread betting

Thesaurus
cover, extent, aberrate, aberration, accelerated, access, accessible, accession, accretion, accrual, accrue, accruement, accumbent, accumulate, accumulation, acreage, addition, adjunct, advance, advertise, affirmed, afghan, aggrandized, aggrandizement, air, airing, ampliation, amplification, amplified, amplitude, announce, announced, apply, appreciate, appreciation, area, ascent, assign, attenuation, augmentation, augmented, balloon, ballooning, bandying, banner, banner head, banquet, barbecue, beam, become public, bed linen, bedaub, bedclothes, bedcover, bedding, bedsheet, bedspread, beefed-up, besmear, bestrew, bigness, blanket, bloat, bloated, bloating, board, body, book, boom, boost, boosted, boundaries, boundary, bounds, branch, branch out, bread, bread and butter, breadth, break, breed, broach, broadcast, broadcasting, broaden, broadened, broadening, broadness, brought to notice, bruit about, bruiting, bruiting about, buffalo robe, buildup, bulk, butter, buzz about, caliber, call, caption, carry, carry over, case, centrifugence, cheer, chink, circulate, circulated, circulation, circumfuse, circumfusion, cleave, cloak, clothes, coat, come forth, come out, comestibles, comfort, comforter, common knowledge, common property, communicate, communication, compass, conduction, confiture, conserve, consign, contagion, contour sheet, convection, couchant, couche, counterpane, cover, coverage, coverlet, coverlid, crack, crawling, creature comfort, crescendo, crevasse, cuisine, current, cut, cut open, dab, daily bread, daub, deal, deal in generalities, deal out, decentralization, declared, decumbent, deepen, deepened, deliver, delivery, deltoid, deploy, deployment, deport, deportation, depth, develop, developing, development, deviation, diameter, diapedesis, difference, diffract, diffraction, diffuse, diffused, diffusion, dilution, dimension, dimensions, dinner, discrete, dispart, dispel, dispensation, dispense, dispersal, disperse, dispersed, dispersion, display, dispread, disseminate, disseminated, dissemination, dissipate, dissipated, dissipation, distance, distance across, distribute, distributed, distribution, divaricate, divarication, diverge, divergence, divergency, divide, division, drag out, draped, draw out, drop head, dropline, eatables, ecumenicize, edema, edibles, eiderdown, elevated, elevation, emanate, emptiness, empty space, enamel, encompass, enhanced, enlarge, enlarged, enlargement, enlarging, entertainment, environ, epigraph, evaporation, evulgation, expand, expanded, expanding, expanse, expansion, expel, export, exportation, expulsion, extend, extended, extending, extension, extent, extradite, extradition, fan, fan out, fan-shape, fan-shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, fanning out, fare, farm, fast food, feast, feed, field, find vent, fissure, fitted sheet, flabelliform, flare, flared, flaring, flat, flood, fly about, fly open, food, food and drink, foodstuff, fragmentation, fullness, gain, gain strength, galactic space, gauge, generalize, get about, get abroad, get afloat, get ahead, get around, get exposure, gild, girth, glaze, globalize, gloss, go, go about, go away, go forth, go off, go out, go the rounds, go up, greatening, greatness, groveling, grow, growth, gush, hand forward, hand on, hand over, hanger, have currency, head, heading, headline, health food, height, heightened, herald, hike, hiked, hiking, hold, holding, homestead, impart, import, importation, in circulation, in print, incise, increase, increased, increasing, increment, infinite space, inflated, inflation, ingesta, intensified, intensify, interchange, interstellar space, issuance, issue, jam, jazzed up, jelly, jump, jump head, junk food, kitchen stuff, lacquer, landholding, lap robe, largeness, latitude, lay, lay on, lay open, lay out, layer, leap, legend, length, lie, limits, linen, lolling, lounging, lying, made public, magnification, magnified, magnitude, make a generalization, make known, make over, make public, mantle, margarine, mass, meal, measure, measurement, meat, mess, metastasis, metastasize, metathesis, metathesize, metempsychosis, migration, motto, mount, mounting, multiplication, multiplied, multiply, mushroom, mushrooming, mutual transfer, nothingness, oleo, ope, open, open up, osmosis, outer space, outspread, outstretch, outstretched, overgrow, overlay, overline, overrun, overscatter, oversow, overspread, paint, part, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, passage, passing over, paste, patchwork quilt, patulous, peddle, peppering, perfuse, perfusion, periodical, pillow slip, pillowcase, place, plantation, plaster, plate, preserve, prime, printing, proclaimed, procumbent, productiveness, profusion, proliferate, proliferated, proliferating, proliferation, prolong, promulgate, promulgation, prone, pronounce, propagate, propagated, propagation, property, proportion, proportions, prostrate, protract, provender, provision, public, publication, publicize, publish, published, publishing, push, put, put and call, put apart, put out, quilt, radiate, radiation, radius, raise, raised, raising, ramify, ranch, range, ray, reach, reach out, recite, reclining, recumbent, refection, refreshment, regale, regalement, reinforced, relay, rent, repas, repast, repeat, reported, reposing, resupine, retail, rift, right, rip, rise, rive, robe, rub, rubric, rug, run, run up, running head, running title, scale, scarehead, scatter, scattered, scattering, scatterment, scope, screamer, see the light, separate, separation, set, shed, sheet, sheeting, shoot up, shotgun pattern, size, slap on, slather, slip, slit, smear, smear on, smooth, snowball, snowballing, sow, sow broadcast, sowing, space, span, sparse, spatial extension, spattering, sphere, splay, splayed, splaying, split, sporadic, spraddle, spraddled, spraddling, sprangle, sprangled, sprangling, sprawl, sprawled, sprawling, sprawly, spread about, spread like wildfire, spread on, spread out, spread with, spreadhead, spreading, spreading abroad, spreading out, spring open, sprinkling, stated, stiffened, stock option, straddle, straggling, straggly, strap, streamer, strengthen, strengthened, stretch, stretch out, stretched-out, strew, strewing, strewn, strip, strown, subhead, subheading, subtitle, superficial extension, superscription, supine, surface, surge, surround, sustenance, swaddle, sweep, swell, swelling, swing open, switch, swollen, table, take in, tap, tar, tear, tear open, telecast, telecasting, televise, televised, throw, throw open, thrust out, tightened, title, title page, tract, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transfer property, transference, transfuse, transfusion, transit, transition, translate, translation, translocate, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmit, transmittal, transmittance, transplace, transplacement, transplant, transplantation, transposal, transpose, transposition, travel, treat, trumpet, tucker, tumescence, turn over, undercoat, unfold, unfolded, unfurl, universalize, unroll, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, utter, varnish, vastness, ventilation, viands, victuals, vittles, void, volatilization, volume, wash, wax, waxing, wide-open, widen, widened, wideness, widening, widespread, width, wrap

Etymology
*undefined: (attested in compounds), of uncertain ultimate origin; cognate with West Frisian spriede:, Dutch spreiden:, German spreiten:.

Verb

 * Bulgarian: разделям
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 裂く


 * Macedonian: поделува
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: așterne, întinde
 * Russian: распространять, распространить
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: sprida, vidga
 * Turkish: yaymak


 * Danish: sprede
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 開かせる,


 * Korean: 다리를 벌리다
 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: шири, раширува
 * Polish: rozłożyć
 * Russian: раздвигать, раздвинуть
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: sprida, sträcka


 * Arabic: نشر
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 散布,  散開,  散开
 * Danish: sprede, strø
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,  ,
 * German: ausstreuen


 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 散らす, ばら撒く
 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: растура, расфрла
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: раскидывать, раскидать
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: sprida, skingra


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: smøre
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: auftragen, beschmieren, bestreichen
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian:, намачкува,  премачкува,  размачкува
 * Polish: smarować, rozsmarować, rozsmarowywać
 * Russian: намазывать, намазать
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: sprida, breda
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: نشر
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 擴大, 扩大
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sprede, udbrede
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,  ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: распространува,
 * Polish: rozprzestrzeniać, rozprzestrzeniać się
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: распространять, распространить
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: sprida, utsprida
 * Turkish: yaymak


 * Czech: šířit se, rozšířit se
 * Danish: brede sig, sprede sig
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, s'étendre
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: се распространува, се простира
 * Polish: rozprzestrzeniać się
 * Portuguese: espalhar,  alastrar
 * Russian:, распространиться
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: sprida
 * Turkish: yayılmak


 * : menyebar, menyiarkan, menyebarluaskan
 * (1) 벌리다 (beollida)
 * (3) 뿌리다 (ppurida)
 * (2,4,5) 펴다 (pyeoda)
 * (6) 퍼지다 (peojida)
 * (6) 퍼지다 (peojida)


 * : extender, desplegar
 * : sprida
 * : చాపు (chaapu) (1), పరచు (parachu) (2)

Noun

 * Danish: spredning, udbredelse
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: levitys, levittäminen
 * Japanese: 拡散, 展開


 * Macedonian:, простирање
 * Russian: распространение, простирание
 * Swahili:, eneza
 * Swedish: spridning, vidgning


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: 拡散, 展開


 * Swahili:, eneza


 * Macedonian:


 * Swahili:, eneza


 * Danish: opredning (bedspread), opdækning (a spreaded table)
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: 掛け
 * Macedonian: прекривка, простирка


 * Russian: покрывало
 * Swahili:, eneza
 * Swedish: pålägg, bredbar


 * Danish: opdækning, festmåltid
 * Italian: imbandigione


 * Macedonian: трпеза
 * Swahili:, eneza


 * Danish: smørepålæg
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Macedonian:
 * Swahili:, eneza
 * Swedish: pålägg


 * Swahili:, eneza


 * Swedish: uppslag, bokuppslag, tidningsuppslag, mittuppslag


 * Danish: spændvidde, omfang
 * Finnish:


 * Swahili:, eneza
 * Swedish: spridning

Anagrams

 * drapes
 * dreaps
 * padres
 * parsed
 * rasped
 * spader
 * spared