Definition of spread in English:

spread

verb sprɛdsprɛd

1with object Open out (something) so as to extend its surface area, width, or length.
I spread a towel on the sand and sat down
she helped Colin to spread out the map
Example sentencesExamples
- During such occasions it is usually the flag dancer who handles the flag or explains it in the presence of others in the company, who may help him spread it out.
Synonyms
lay out, open out, unfurl, unroll, roll out, shake out
straighten out, fan out
stretch out, extend
literary outspread
1. 1.1 Stretch out (arms, legs, hands, fingers, or wings) so that they are far apart.
  with object and complement Bobby spread his arms wide
  Example sentencesExamples
  She looks upward, her wide eyes and almost-open lips seeming vulnerable, her elegant fingers spread and wrists bent outward in front of her so that her hands frame the strong bones of her face.
  Their pudgy little hands are variously balled for punches, or raised in preparation for an opened-handed smack, fingers spread wide.
  An enormous phoenix emerges from this skeletal volcano and spreads its wings.
  To make a roll, spread the fingers of the opposite hand wide apart and make them rigid.
  They are spreading their bodies out, their weight is differently distributed.
  At the end, the entire cast advanced toward the audience, arms spread wide to envelop us in their Romantic reverie.
  Upstairs on the third floor landing she is waiting for him, arms spread wide in greeting.
  You saw it when he walked along the street, his arms spread wide.
  When it kicked at night and woke her, Emma spread her fingertips over the foreign swell that was her own body and imagined the baby spoke to her in a secret, atonal humming.
  Wings spread, it appears poised for flight, ready to soar over Lake Michigan, an opalescent blue in early summer.
  Radio 1 presenter Sara Cox spreads her legs and gets stuck into a skateboarding simulation.
  In this work, filled with vigorous movement, the eagle rises with its wings spread across the width of the sheet, exhaling smoke as it drags a metal trap clamped to its talon and tied to a broken branch.
  At times, Adamma leapt up in the air with knees still bent and spread her arms wide.
  Changing to tabletop position, place the palms of your hands - fingers spread, pointing away from the wall - where your heels were.
  His hands - fingers spread - graze the surface of the quiet water while his eyes, black and narrow, attest to the mystery of childhood.
  And both men, talking to Marion, make a long, strong movement with their hands - Sam spreads both arms wide to agree with her, Norman's right arm will reach to a small, stuffed, nocturnal bird.
  They fashion a diamond shape between them by spreading their legs slightly and joining the soles of their feet.
2no object, with adverbial Extend over a large or increasing area.
rain over north-west Scotland will spread south-east during the day
Example sentencesExamples
- Lavarack Barracks is bound to the south by the imposing outcrop of Mt Stuart, with its range of foothills, and spreads northwards across a flat plain to the east-west axis of University Drive.
- Disease then develops in the stalk and rapidly spreads up the stalk and into the leaves.
- The appeal of football spreads wider yet and wider beyond the nation's boundaries.
- This invasive weed from southeast Asia covers more than 7 million U.S. acres and spreads across about 120,000 more each year.
- From the mid-'80s on, the number of growers expanded and the retail service area spread up and down the West Coast from San Francisco to Seattle and inland as far as Bend.
- Belly hair spreads over the area between belly-button and top pants button.
- Around them spreads not a desert but an opulent terrain.
Synonyms
grow, increase, escalate, advance, develop, broaden, expand, widen, proliferate, mushroom
Medicine metastasize
1. 2.1spread out (of a group of people) move apart so as to cover a wider area.
  the Marines spread out across the docks
  Example sentencesExamples
  Each member of the family spreads out into the community where they encounter other people that are equally unhappy.
  The fleet spreads out over the sea and orders are given to raise the anchors and run the sails up the masts.
  By spreading out, the band try to claim the stage, however with only ten performances under their belts, what lacks in self-assurance is certainly compensated for in mystifyingly thunderous guitars.
  As the bodies spread apart and crowd back together, they resemble characters continually rearranging themselves into words and sentences.
  ‘Our group and the Florida team,’ Goolsby says, ‘are spreading out all over the globe to find the best biological controls to use against climbing fern.’
  Poignantly stated and played, the two guitarists spread out and cover the space.
2. 2.2with object and adverbial Distribute or disperse (something) over an area.
  volcanic eruptions spread dust high into the stratosphere
  Example sentencesExamples
  The living quarters and studio spaces are spread around these two main parts.
  Manure can be spread as a solid or semi-solid in a box or flail spreader.
  Livestock are grazed to maintain and enhance perennial plant communities and spread manure over the ground.
  Frequently observed in connection with cabin groups is a tendency to spread the effects of their presence over a needlessly large area.
  Farmers commonly spread manure on their lands, a practice that often results in excess phosphorus being applied.
  He began by collecting cow manure from the village, which he spread on his fields - an uncommon practice in the area.
  ‘The wider the coverage, the less light the bulb projects because you are spreading the same amount of output over a larger area,’ explained Scott.
  Synonyms
  scatter, strew, disperse
  literary bestrew
3. 2.3 Gradually reach or cause to reach a wider area or more people.
  no object the violence spread from the city centre to the suburbs
  with object she's always spreading rumours
  Example sentencesExamples
  This might be a good venue to spread your propaganda.
  However, the conference definitely fulfilled its role of connecting people and spreading news, methods, and strategies.
  These are all effective ways of spreading the good news.
  There is merely an earnest desire to spread some Yuletide fun and to tell a straightforward story of devotion, determination, and delight.
  But beware, there could be someone out there spreading impurities about our profession.
  Chuck a few flyers around select shops, harass the eardrums of certain people ‘in the know’ who will spread the word to the right people, then sit back and let the ensuing hype escalate.
  Moreover, most of these exhibitions are accompanied by major catalogues that confirm the status of these photographers while spreading their reputation still further.
  The program is all about young people like Holder being trained to speak with brutal honesty, and then to spread the message to literally thousands of students that there is a way out of violence.
  Visitors from America, Australia, and Canada, and from Japan as well, received a lot of negative coverage of the disease in the media, and some people decided not to visit the UK to avoid spreading the infection.
  When you do write criticism, are you looking for more notoriety, or to spread your opinions, or just to earn money, or is it something else?
  It's about systematically spreading this cultural idea of artists and writers having a space where intellectual publics can work together.
  You're going to spread your gospel the best you can.
  I just think it really spreads the word for our designs.
  And we, his children, simply by being his disciples and spreading the word, had became the first generation of kids to validate and popularize a comedy genius.
  In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on.
  Surviving into his 90th year, he got nearly four decades, post-Warner, to spread the good word about classical cartooning and to hear quite a few thrown his way.
  I note above the importance of textiles in spreading the message that the Mongols had created an empire.
  So then, if the electorate is tending to think in and act on smaller and smaller (not to say, more concise) messages, why not spread the word on T-shirts?
  Already people are volunteering to work with him on it, and once word spreads it seems likely that Johnnie will have more cast and crew than he knows what to do with.
  I am beginning to realize that one of my major beefs with mixing design and politics stems from celebrities using their platform to spread their propaganda.
  Synonyms
  disseminate, circulate, pass on, put about, communicate, diffuse, make public, make known, purvey, broadcast, publicize, propagate, promulgate
  repeat
  literary bruit about/abroad
4. 2.4 (of people, animals, or plants) become distributed over a large or larger area.
  the owls have spread as far north as Kuala Lumpur
  Example sentencesExamples
  They use a rotation schedule in rooms, separating new bags from older ones, so that pests don't spread.
  ‘This perennial garden plant has become a noxious weed and is spreading rapidly throughout North America,’ says Farr.
  He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.
  In several areas, they have escaped the planting sites and have begun to spread and outcompete native plants.
  I wrote saying that peacocks were a very good thing, and that wild ones were spreading across Somerset.
  In tact, climbing fern is spreading so rapidly that it's now the state's worst invasive weed.
  Plant and animal species alien to our ecosystem are spreading at ever-increasing rates throughout the land.
  Such corridors allow links between ecologically protected areas, so that plants and animals can spread from one to another and form a network.
5. 2.5with object and adverbial Distribute in a specified way.
  you can spread the payments over as long a period as you like
  Example sentencesExamples
  Splitting the gig up into an acoustic and an electric set gave them the opportunity to spread the gig over two hours.
  In fairness, he spreads his venom equally between her and the other subjects of his book.
3with object and adverbial Apply (a substance) to an object or surface in an even layer.
he sighed, spreading jam on a croissant
Example sentencesExamples
- The 3D printer spreads one thin layer of powder over the print bed, then passes over the powder just as an inkjet printer head passes over paper.
Synonyms
smear, daub, plaster, slather, lather, apply, put
smooth, rub
1. 3.1 Cover (a surface) with a substance in an even layer.
  spread each slice thinly with mayonnaise
  Synonyms
  cover, coat, layer, daub, smother
  butter
2. 3.2no object, with adverbial Be able to be applied in an even layer.
  a tub of unsalted butter that spreads so well
  Example sentencesExamples
  New Land O'Lakes Spreadable Butter with Canola oil is ready to spread right out of the refrigerator, with no need to soften.
4archaic with object Lay (a table) for a meal.
Example sentencesExamples
- On November 25, 2003, we sat down with family and friends around a table spread with food we grew and said thanks.

noun sprɛdsprɛd

1mass noun The fact or process of spreading over an area.
warmer temperatures could help reduce the spread of the disease
the spread of the urban population into rural areas
Example sentencesExamples
- It is not yet known whether consumer resistance to GM food crops, such as rice, wheat, and food maize will be an obstacle to the spread of those crops.
- The rise and spread of theory was just one development.
- Fungicides can be applied when disease symptoms first appear to reduce their spread.
- Therefore, removal of a tree killed by pine wilt is essential to limit the spread of this disease.
- For decades, the UN has led efforts to control the development and spread of such weapons.
- To prevent the spread of potential disease, all eggs should come from the same source.
- Live bird markets have also played a role in the spread of epidemics.
- If plant pulling is not feasible, flower head removal helps reduce the spread of the seeds.
- Working with the fungus in noninfected areas is restricted to guard against potential spread.
- By a skilful use of maps and charts the author traces the development and spread of various religious movements, from the early Spanish Franciscans to the latest absurd creation.
- With the emergence and spread of AIDS in Japan in the 1980s, insensitivity toward gay men heightened.
- This knowledge is key to checking the spread of the disease and eradicating it from infected areas.
- But years of heavy rains in the area following the formation of the co-op caused the spread of a plant blight known as scab.
- The spread of journalism also created new problems for the authorities.
- New measures to help prevent the spread of Avian Influenza have been agreed by the European Commission.
- A more material reason for the recent spread of campus farms is probably the rise of community-supported agriculture.
- This feed is thought to have been responsible for the spread of BSE among cattle.
- In order to stop the fire's rapid spread, which was being fanned by strong easterly winds, King Charles II ordered that all houses in the fire's path be blown up or pulled down.
- In other words, precautionary killings to prohibit the spread of infection are becoming commonplace.
- Fortunately, researchers have discovered different strategies to control the spread of the virus.
Synonyms
expansion, proliferation, extension, growth, mushrooming, increase, escalation, buildout, advance, advancement, development
dissemination, diffusion, transmission, propagation
2The extent, width, or area covered by something.
the male's antlers can attain a spread of six feet
Example sentencesExamples
- The planting hole should be larger than the spread of the root mass.
Synonyms
span, width, extent, stretch, reach
1. 2.1 The wingspan of a bird.
  the red-tailed hawk has a four-and-a-half-foot spread
2. 2.2 An expanse or amount of something.
  the green spread of the park
  Synonyms
  expanse, area, sweep, stretch
3. 2.3North American A large farm or ranch.
3The range or variety of something.
a wide spread of ages
Example sentencesExamples
- Maybe that means greater audience spread and fewer must-see shows.
- Faces in the Crowd offers a wonderfully various and intelligently chosen spread of images.
Synonyms
range, span, spectrum, sweep
variety
1. 3.1 The difference between two rates or prices.
  the very narrow spread between borrowing and deposit rates
  Example sentencesExamples
  This should narrow the spread among grape and wine prices so evident in the 1990s.
  This is mainly because of the larger gains in rollover spreads.
  Financial industry debt spreads were widening meaningfully as well.
  Fluctuations in price spreads suggest relative variation in consumer demand and cattle supply entering the food chain.
  The study will look at retail prices, price spreads and movement of livestock markets.
2. 3.2
  short for point spread
4A soft paste that can be applied in a layer to bread or other food.
low-fat spreads
mass noun cheese spread
Example sentencesExamples
- Touted for their cholesterol-lowering properties, phytosterols are found in commercially prepared margarines and spreads.
- Do not eat refrigerated pates or meat spreads.
- It's thought to be a beneficial fat and, in these analyses, ranged from 19 percent in one of the store brands to 27 percent in one of the natural-type spreads.
- In the spreads category, Lactoprot is developing upscale, high-end flavor profiles with cheese spreads in flavor combinations such as pepper and bacon or cheddar and smoked turkey.
- The cheese might be intended for individual slices, blocks or loaves for shredding, spreads, sauces, fillings, pastes or as industrial food ingredients.
- Process cheese can be coaxed into shapes or spreads and also is a featured ingredient in many other food products.
- In large part, that's due to scientific findings on the dangers of trans-fatty acids, prevalent in most margarines and spreads.
- According to product claims, these spreads lower cholesterol by as much as 10 to 14 percent.
- Butter processors are keeping a close eye on this new sub-category to determine if there's enough interest to add a similar spread to their own product lines.
- For pasteurized cheese spreads, the trend is to reduce cheese solids and add dairy solids such as whey protein.
- Several others are use patents for direct incorporation into human foods as ingredients or spreads.
- Products manufactured across the board include butter, dry and cultured products, spreads, cheese and cheese sauces.
- Adding a gum system to processed cheese spreads or artificial cheese products helps modify textural difficulties and helps the end product maintain desirable functional properties.
- Today's cheese and cheese spreads boast flavors that go far beyond the traditional smoke and bacon.
- Processed cheese food and processed cheese spread include additional ingredients such as dairy proteins and/or gums.
- But these spreads came with their own set of usability problems, particularly when it came to cooking or baking.
- Fay says he has seen the introduction this year of more peripheral items, such as cheese spreads.
- These spreads do not contain trans fatty acids.
- It helped boost sales of cheese spreads by more than 600 percent.
- Retailers can sell more bagels and bread with the spread at a convenient reach, creating an impulse purchase.
Synonyms
pâté
5An article or advertisement covering several columns or pages of a newspaper or magazine, especially one on two facing pages.
a double-page spread
Example sentencesExamples
- Nevertheless, he does show how Jeff Miller's student color studies became the foundation for three Speak magazine spreads.
- There are, however, several colored double-page spreads on which she has ‘hung’ her images.
- Printed as double-page spreads, the 47 photos are accompanied by poems and short stories selected by the artist to reflect her watery theme.
- Each building is presented in a double-page spread, with a brief descriptive text, an image or two and, of course, the plans, sections and elevations of the title.
- All the covers are faithfully reproduced here, together with page layouts and spreads.
- Why was this a great spread in Vanity Fair, or in Smithsonian or National Geographic?
- Additionally, Seventeen will run spreads in two issues touting the program.
- Recent runways and magazine spreads have featured luscious florals from Dolce & Gabbana, Bill Blass, Christian Lacroix and Prada.
- Running as part of an extensive magazine spread, the newspaper speculated that Foster was about to become Britain's first sidewalk surfing tycoon.
- Segal recently signed artist David Mann, who is well known for his recurring spreads in Easyriders magazine, to put out limited-edition prints from his original paintings.
- But in the end, House & Garden got the nod, running an eight-page spread in the February issue.
- He engages the entire article, not merely the flashy opening spread.
- And then we see Double Game's final two pages: a color spread of Calle's smile.
- Most ineffective was a large section of the exhibit in which framed spreads from the magazines jutted out from the wall.
- The book dummies, storyboards, jacket covers, and double page spreads were proudly displayed, still smelling strongly of glue and fixatives.
- Magazine spreads were next, then adult films, then drugs.
- He has the appearance and acting talent of a male underwear model lifted from a magazine spread.
- It owes something to the magazine page, the studio shot, and the fashion spread.
- The glacially cool images were published in the fashion spreads of such magazines as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in New York and Caballero in Mexico City.
- The Guardian's pages, on the other hand, though reduced in size, still feel big and expansive when you are looking at a spread and the quality of the design obviously helps here.
6informal A large and impressively elaborate meal.
his mother laid on a huge spread
Example sentencesExamples
- Yes, she's gone to an awful lot of trouble to assemble all your favourite people and prepare a lavish spread.
- Empty tummies don't make for a productive workforce so call in your mother or a friend to act as catering manager and do a spread rather than forking out at the chip shop.
- Fiftyish, 350-pound art dealers in suits ‘eat’ huge banquet spreads, gorging themselves with the sloppy abandon of famished Vikings, only to discover the food is merely a hallucination.
- The organizer of the event promises laughter and ‘a good spread of food and drink.’
Synonyms
large/elaborate meal, feast, banquet, repast
informal blowout, nosh
7North American A bedspread.
a patchwork spread
Example sentencesExamples
- She covered his body with the chenille spread and went inside to phone the undertaker.
Synonyms
bedspread, bedcover, cover, coverlet, throw, afghan
British eiderdown
North American comforter
dated counterpane

Phrases

spread oneself too thin

Be involved in so many different activities that one's time and energy are not used to good effect.
Example sentencesExamples
- Both have formed partnerships with larger companies in order to take on big projects without spreading themselves too thin.
- As awesome as it is to be the girl who does it all, spreading yourself too thin will only leave you overstressed and underproductive.
- But it can't do that effectively if it spread itself too thin.
- We were able to meet the needs of a customer without bringing on more employees, spreading ourselves too thin or charging too much.
- If morale and motivation are poor, consider the possibility that you are simply spreading yourself too thin.
- There is a sense of having spread ourselves too thin.
- Do you worry about spreading yourself too thin?
- But I'm reading scripts all the time, because it is something that I would like to do, but I'm aware of spreading myself too thin.
- My colleagues sense this struggle, and often caution me about spreading myself too thin.
- Sadly, even Jones realised you can spread yourself too thin, often leading to poor choices.

Derivatives

spreadable

adjective

Fruit butters are made from fruit pulp cooked with sugar until thickened to a spreadable consistency.
Example sentencesExamples
- Transfer frosting to a bowl and cool, stirring occasionally, until spreadable.
- It was flavoursome without being heavy and spreadable without being too soft, said my dining partner.
- This spreadable cheese is cured in crocks and used like butter.
- In natural peanut butter, some of the peanut oil rises to the top of the jar, and stirring it back in does more than make the peanut butter creamy and spreadable.

Origin

Old English -sprǣdan (used in combinations), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch spreiden and German spreiten.

Rhymes

abed, ahead, bed, behead, Birkenhead, bled, bread, bred, coed, cred, crossbred, dead, dread, Ed, embed, Enzed, fed, fled, Fred, gainsaid, head, infrared, ked, lead, led, Med, misled, misread, Ned, outspread, premed, pure-bred, read, red, redd, said, samoyed, shed, shred, sked, sled, sped, Spithead, stead, ted, thread, tread, underbred, underfed, wed

Definition of spread in US English:

spread

verbspredsprɛd

1with object Open out (something) so as to extend its surface area, width, or length.
I spread a towel on the sand and sat down
she helped Chris to spread out the map
Example sentencesExamples
- During such occasions it is usually the flag dancer who handles the flag or explains it in the presence of others in the company, who may help him spread it out.
Synonyms
lay out, open out, unfurl, unroll, roll out, shake out
1. 1.1 Stretch out (arms, legs, hands, fingers, or wings) so that they are far apart.
  the swan spread its wings
  Example sentencesExamples
  In this work, filled with vigorous movement, the eagle rises with its wings spread across the width of the sheet, exhaling smoke as it drags a metal trap clamped to its talon and tied to a broken branch.
  Radio 1 presenter Sara Cox spreads her legs and gets stuck into a skateboarding simulation.
  They fashion a diamond shape between them by spreading their legs slightly and joining the soles of their feet.
  An enormous phoenix emerges from this skeletal volcano and spreads its wings.
  And both men, talking to Marion, make a long, strong movement with their hands - Sam spreads both arms wide to agree with her, Norman's right arm will reach to a small, stuffed, nocturnal bird.
  Their pudgy little hands are variously balled for punches, or raised in preparation for an opened-handed smack, fingers spread wide.
  They are spreading their bodies out, their weight is differently distributed.
  To make a roll, spread the fingers of the opposite hand wide apart and make them rigid.
  When it kicked at night and woke her, Emma spread her fingertips over the foreign swell that was her own body and imagined the baby spoke to her in a secret, atonal humming.
  At the end, the entire cast advanced toward the audience, arms spread wide to envelop us in their Romantic reverie.
  Wings spread, it appears poised for flight, ready to soar over Lake Michigan, an opalescent blue in early summer.
  At times, Adamma leapt up in the air with knees still bent and spread her arms wide.
  Changing to tabletop position, place the palms of your hands - fingers spread, pointing away from the wall - where your heels were.
  His hands - fingers spread - graze the surface of the quiet water while his eyes, black and narrow, attest to the mystery of childhood.
  Upstairs on the third floor landing she is waiting for him, arms spread wide in greeting.
  You saw it when he walked along the street, his arms spread wide.
  She looks upward, her wide eyes and almost-open lips seeming vulnerable, her elegant fingers spread and wrists bent outward in front of her so that her hands frame the strong bones of her face.
2no object, with adverbial Extend over a large or increasing area.
she stood at the window looking at the town spread out below
Example sentencesExamples
- The appeal of football spreads wider yet and wider beyond the nation's boundaries.
- Belly hair spreads over the area between belly-button and top pants button.
- Disease then develops in the stalk and rapidly spreads up the stalk and into the leaves.
- Lavarack Barracks is bound to the south by the imposing outcrop of Mt Stuart, with its range of foothills, and spreads northwards across a flat plain to the east-west axis of University Drive.
- From the mid-'80s on, the number of growers expanded and the retail service area spread up and down the West Coast from San Francisco to Seattle and inland as far as Bend.
- This invasive weed from southeast Asia covers more than 7 million U.S. acres and spreads across about 120,000 more each year.
- Around them spreads not a desert but an opulent terrain.
Synonyms
grow, increase, escalate, advance, develop, broaden, expand, widen, proliferate, mushroom
1. 2.1spread out (of a group of people) move apart so as to cover a wider area.
  the Marines spread out across the docks
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the bodies spread apart and crowd back together, they resemble characters continually rearranging themselves into words and sentences.
  The fleet spreads out over the sea and orders are given to raise the anchors and run the sails up the masts.
  Each member of the family spreads out into the community where they encounter other people that are equally unhappy.
  By spreading out, the band try to claim the stage, however with only ten performances under their belts, what lacks in self-assurance is certainly compensated for in mystifyingly thunderous guitars.
  Poignantly stated and played, the two guitarists spread out and cover the space.
  ‘Our group and the Florida team,’ Goolsby says, ‘are spreading out all over the globe to find the best biological controls to use against climbing fern.’
2. 2.2with object and adverbial Distribute or disperse (something) over a certain area.
  volcanic eruptions spread dust high into the stratosphere
  Example sentencesExamples
  The living quarters and studio spaces are spread around these two main parts.
  ‘The wider the coverage, the less light the bulb projects because you are spreading the same amount of output over a larger area,’ explained Scott.
  Livestock are grazed to maintain and enhance perennial plant communities and spread manure over the ground.
  Frequently observed in connection with cabin groups is a tendency to spread the effects of their presence over a needlessly large area.
  He began by collecting cow manure from the village, which he spread on his fields - an uncommon practice in the area.
  Manure can be spread as a solid or semi-solid in a box or flail spreader.
  Farmers commonly spread manure on their lands, a practice that often results in excess phosphorus being applied.
  Synonyms
  scatter, strew, disperse
3. 2.3 Gradually reach or cause to reach a larger and larger area or more and more people.
  no object the violence spread from the city to the suburbs
  with object she's always spreading rumors about other people
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's about systematically spreading this cultural idea of artists and writers having a space where intellectual publics can work together.
  Chuck a few flyers around select shops, harass the eardrums of certain people ‘in the know’ who will spread the word to the right people, then sit back and let the ensuing hype escalate.
  In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on.
  However, the conference definitely fulfilled its role of connecting people and spreading news, methods, and strategies.
  Surviving into his 90th year, he got nearly four decades, post-Warner, to spread the good word about classical cartooning and to hear quite a few thrown his way.
  I am beginning to realize that one of my major beefs with mixing design and politics stems from celebrities using their platform to spread their propaganda.
  Already people are volunteering to work with him on it, and once word spreads it seems likely that Johnnie will have more cast and crew than he knows what to do with.
  Moreover, most of these exhibitions are accompanied by major catalogues that confirm the status of these photographers while spreading their reputation still further.
  I just think it really spreads the word for our designs.
  And we, his children, simply by being his disciples and spreading the word, had became the first generation of kids to validate and popularize a comedy genius.
  But beware, there could be someone out there spreading impurities about our profession.
  So then, if the electorate is tending to think in and act on smaller and smaller (not to say, more concise) messages, why not spread the word on T-shirts?
  Visitors from America, Australia, and Canada, and from Japan as well, received a lot of negative coverage of the disease in the media, and some people decided not to visit the UK to avoid spreading the infection.
  The program is all about young people like Holder being trained to speak with brutal honesty, and then to spread the message to literally thousands of students that there is a way out of violence.
  I note above the importance of textiles in spreading the message that the Mongols had created an empire.
  There is merely an earnest desire to spread some Yuletide fun and to tell a straightforward story of devotion, determination, and delight.
  You're going to spread your gospel the best you can.
  These are all effective ways of spreading the good news.
  This might be a good venue to spread your propaganda.
  When you do write criticism, are you looking for more notoriety, or to spread your opinions, or just to earn money, or is it something else?
  Synonyms
  disseminate, circulate, pass on, put about, communicate, diffuse, make public, make known, purvey, broadcast, publicize, propagate, promulgate
4. 2.4 (of people, animals, or plants) become distributed over a large or larger area.
  the owls have spread as far north as Yellowknife
  Example sentencesExamples
  In several areas, they have escaped the planting sites and have begun to spread and outcompete native plants.
  Plant and animal species alien to our ecosystem are spreading at ever-increasing rates throughout the land.
  ‘This perennial garden plant has become a noxious weed and is spreading rapidly throughout North America,’ says Farr.
  He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.
  Such corridors allow links between ecologically protected areas, so that plants and animals can spread from one to another and form a network.
  In tact, climbing fern is spreading so rapidly that it's now the state's worst invasive weed.
  They use a rotation schedule in rooms, separating new bags from older ones, so that pests don't spread.
  I wrote saying that peacocks were a very good thing, and that wild ones were spreading across Somerset.
5. 2.5with object and adverbial Distribute (something) in a specified way.
  you can spread the payments over as long a period as you like
  Example sentencesExamples
  Splitting the gig up into an acoustic and an electric set gave them the opportunity to spread the gig over two hours.
  In fairness, he spreads his venom equally between her and the other subjects of his book.
3with object and adverbial Apply (a substance) to an object or surface in an even layer.
he sighed, spreading jam on a croissant
Example sentencesExamples
- The 3D printer spreads one thin layer of powder over the print bed, then passes over the powder just as an inkjet printer head passes over paper.
Synonyms
smear, daub, plaster, slather, lather, apply, put
1. 3.1 Cover (a surface) with a substance in an even layer.
  spread each slice thinly with mayonnaise
  Synonyms
  cover, coat, layer, daub, smother
2. 3.2no object, with adverbial Be able to be applied in an even layer.
  the whipped butter spreads easily
  Example sentencesExamples
  New Land O'Lakes Spreadable Butter with Canola oil is ready to spread right out of the refrigerator, with no need to soften.
4archaic with object Lay (a table) for a meal.
Example sentencesExamples
- On November 25, 2003, we sat down with family and friends around a table spread with food we grew and said thanks.

nounspredsprɛd

1The fact or process of spreading over an area.
warmer temperatures could help reduce the spread of the disease
the spread of the urban population into rural areas
Example sentencesExamples
- With the emergence and spread of AIDS in Japan in the 1980s, insensitivity toward gay men heightened.
- In other words, precautionary killings to prohibit the spread of infection are becoming commonplace.
- In order to stop the fire's rapid spread, which was being fanned by strong easterly winds, King Charles II ordered that all houses in the fire's path be blown up or pulled down.
- But years of heavy rains in the area following the formation of the co-op caused the spread of a plant blight known as scab.
- Fungicides can be applied when disease symptoms first appear to reduce their spread.
- This feed is thought to have been responsible for the spread of BSE among cattle.
- It is not yet known whether consumer resistance to GM food crops, such as rice, wheat, and food maize will be an obstacle to the spread of those crops.
- New measures to help prevent the spread of Avian Influenza have been agreed by the European Commission.
- By a skilful use of maps and charts the author traces the development and spread of various religious movements, from the early Spanish Franciscans to the latest absurd creation.
- The spread of journalism also created new problems for the authorities.
- The rise and spread of theory was just one development.
- A more material reason for the recent spread of campus farms is probably the rise of community-supported agriculture.
- To prevent the spread of potential disease, all eggs should come from the same source.
- Therefore, removal of a tree killed by pine wilt is essential to limit the spread of this disease.
- If plant pulling is not feasible, flower head removal helps reduce the spread of the seeds.
- Fortunately, researchers have discovered different strategies to control the spread of the virus.
- This knowledge is key to checking the spread of the disease and eradicating it from infected areas.
- For decades, the UN has led efforts to control the development and spread of such weapons.
- Live bird markets have also played a role in the spread of epidemics.
- Working with the fungus in noninfected areas is restricted to guard against potential spread.
Synonyms
expansion, proliferation, extension, growth, mushrooming, increase, escalation, buildout, advance, advancement, development
2The extent, width, or area covered by something.
the male's antlers can attain a spread of six feet
Example sentencesExamples
- The planting hole should be larger than the spread of the root mass.
Synonyms
span, width, extent, stretch, reach
1. 2.1 The wingspan of a bird.
2. 2.2 An expanse or amount of something.
  the green spread of the park
  Synonyms
  expanse, area, sweep, stretch
3. 2.3North American A large farm or ranch.
3The range or variety of something.
a wide spread of ages
Example sentencesExamples
- Maybe that means greater audience spread and fewer must-see shows.
- Faces in the Crowd offers a wonderfully various and intelligently chosen spread of images.
Synonyms
range, span, spectrum, sweep
1. 3.1 The difference between two rates or prices.
  the very narrow spread between borrowing and deposit rates
  Example sentencesExamples
  Fluctuations in price spreads suggest relative variation in consumer demand and cattle supply entering the food chain.
  Financial industry debt spreads were widening meaningfully as well.
  This is mainly because of the larger gains in rollover spreads.
  The study will look at retail prices, price spreads and movement of livestock markets.
  This should narrow the spread among grape and wine prices so evident in the 1990s.
2. 3.2
  short for point spread
4A soft paste that can be applied in a layer to bread or other food.
Example sentencesExamples
- Several others are use patents for direct incorporation into human foods as ingredients or spreads.
- In large part, that's due to scientific findings on the dangers of trans-fatty acids, prevalent in most margarines and spreads.
- In the spreads category, Lactoprot is developing upscale, high-end flavor profiles with cheese spreads in flavor combinations such as pepper and bacon or cheddar and smoked turkey.
- According to product claims, these spreads lower cholesterol by as much as 10 to 14 percent.
- Today's cheese and cheese spreads boast flavors that go far beyond the traditional smoke and bacon.
- It helped boost sales of cheese spreads by more than 600 percent.
- The cheese might be intended for individual slices, blocks or loaves for shredding, spreads, sauces, fillings, pastes or as industrial food ingredients.
- Fay says he has seen the introduction this year of more peripheral items, such as cheese spreads.
- But these spreads came with their own set of usability problems, particularly when it came to cooking or baking.
- Do not eat refrigerated pates or meat spreads.
- Process cheese can be coaxed into shapes or spreads and also is a featured ingredient in many other food products.
- Retailers can sell more bagels and bread with the spread at a convenient reach, creating an impulse purchase.
- Products manufactured across the board include butter, dry and cultured products, spreads, cheese and cheese sauces.
- For pasteurized cheese spreads, the trend is to reduce cheese solids and add dairy solids such as whey protein.
- Adding a gum system to processed cheese spreads or artificial cheese products helps modify textural difficulties and helps the end product maintain desirable functional properties.
- Processed cheese food and processed cheese spread include additional ingredients such as dairy proteins and/or gums.
- It's thought to be a beneficial fat and, in these analyses, ranged from 19 percent in one of the store brands to 27 percent in one of the natural-type spreads.
- These spreads do not contain trans fatty acids.
- Touted for their cholesterol-lowering properties, phytosterols are found in commercially prepared margarines and spreads.
- Butter processors are keeping a close eye on this new sub-category to determine if there's enough interest to add a similar spread to their own product lines.
Synonyms
pâté
5An article or advertisement covering several columns or pages of a newspaper or magazine, especially one on two facing pages.
a double-page spread
Example sentencesExamples
- Running as part of an extensive magazine spread, the newspaper speculated that Foster was about to become Britain's first sidewalk surfing tycoon.
- The glacially cool images were published in the fashion spreads of such magazines as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in New York and Caballero in Mexico City.
- Nevertheless, he does show how Jeff Miller's student color studies became the foundation for three Speak magazine spreads.
- He has the appearance and acting talent of a male underwear model lifted from a magazine spread.
- All the covers are faithfully reproduced here, together with page layouts and spreads.
- It owes something to the magazine page, the studio shot, and the fashion spread.
- Magazine spreads were next, then adult films, then drugs.
- Additionally, Seventeen will run spreads in two issues touting the program.
- Why was this a great spread in Vanity Fair, or in Smithsonian or National Geographic?
- But in the end, House & Garden got the nod, running an eight-page spread in the February issue.
- The Guardian's pages, on the other hand, though reduced in size, still feel big and expansive when you are looking at a spread and the quality of the design obviously helps here.
- There are, however, several colored double-page spreads on which she has ‘hung’ her images.
- Most ineffective was a large section of the exhibit in which framed spreads from the magazines jutted out from the wall.
- Each building is presented in a double-page spread, with a brief descriptive text, an image or two and, of course, the plans, sections and elevations of the title.
- The book dummies, storyboards, jacket covers, and double page spreads were proudly displayed, still smelling strongly of glue and fixatives.
- Recent runways and magazine spreads have featured luscious florals from Dolce & Gabbana, Bill Blass, Christian Lacroix and Prada.
- Segal recently signed artist David Mann, who is well known for his recurring spreads in Easyriders magazine, to put out limited-edition prints from his original paintings.
- And then we see Double Game's final two pages: a color spread of Calle's smile.
- Printed as double-page spreads, the 47 photos are accompanied by poems and short stories selected by the artist to reflect her watery theme.
- He engages the entire article, not merely the flashy opening spread.
6informal A large and impressively elaborate meal.
Example sentencesExamples
- Fiftyish, 350-pound art dealers in suits ‘eat’ huge banquet spreads, gorging themselves with the sloppy abandon of famished Vikings, only to discover the food is merely a hallucination.
- Empty tummies don't make for a productive workforce so call in your mother or a friend to act as catering manager and do a spread rather than forking out at the chip shop.
- The organizer of the event promises laughter and ‘a good spread of food and drink.’
- Yes, she's gone to an awful lot of trouble to assemble all your favourite people and prepare a lavish spread.
Synonyms
elaborate meal, large meal, feast, banquet, repast
7North American A bedspread.
Example sentencesExamples
- She covered his body with the chenille spread and went inside to phone the undertaker.
Synonyms
bedspread, bedcover, cover, coverlet, throw, afghan

Phrases

spread oneself too thin

Be involved in so many different activities or projects that one's time and energy are not used to good effect.
Example sentencesExamples
- We were able to meet the needs of a customer without bringing on more employees, spreading ourselves too thin or charging too much.
- But I'm reading scripts all the time, because it is something that I would like to do, but I'm aware of spreading myself too thin.
- Do you worry about spreading yourself too thin?
- If morale and motivation are poor, consider the possibility that you are simply spreading yourself too thin.
- As awesome as it is to be the girl who does it all, spreading yourself too thin will only leave you overstressed and underproductive.
- Sadly, even Jones realised you can spread yourself too thin, often leading to poor choices.
- There is a sense of having spread ourselves too thin.
- But it can't do that effectively if it spread itself too thin.
- Both have formed partnerships with larger companies in order to take on big projects without spreading themselves too thin.
- My colleagues sense this struggle, and often caution me about spreading myself too thin.

Origin

Old English -sprǣdan (used in combinations), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch spreiden and German spreiten.

单词	spread
释义	Definition of spread in English: spread verb sprɛdsprɛd 1with object Open out (something) so as to extend its surface area, width, or length. I spread a towel on the sand and sat down she helped Colin to spread out the map Example sentencesExamples During such occasions it is usually the flag dancer who handles the flag or explains it in the presence of others in the company, who may help him spread it out. Synonyms lay out, open out, unfurl, unroll, roll out, shake out straighten out, fan out stretch out, extend literary outspread 1.1 Stretch out (arms, legs, hands, fingers, or wings) so that they are far apart. with object and complement Bobby spread his arms wide Example sentencesExamples She looks upward, her wide eyes and almost-open lips seeming vulnerable, her elegant fingers spread and wrists bent outward in front of her so that her hands frame the strong bones of her face. Their pudgy little hands are variously balled for punches, or raised in preparation for an opened-handed smack, fingers spread wide. An enormous phoenix emerges from this skeletal volcano and spreads its wings. To make a roll, spread the fingers of the opposite hand wide apart and make them rigid. They are spreading their bodies out, their weight is differently distributed. At the end, the entire cast advanced toward the audience, arms spread wide to envelop us in their Romantic reverie. Upstairs on the third floor landing she is waiting for him, arms spread wide in greeting. You saw it when he walked along the street, his arms spread wide. When it kicked at night and woke her, Emma spread her fingertips over the foreign swell that was her own body and imagined the baby spoke to her in a secret, atonal humming. Wings spread, it appears poised for flight, ready to soar over Lake Michigan, an opalescent blue in early summer. Radio 1 presenter Sara Cox spreads her legs and gets stuck into a skateboarding simulation. In this work, filled with vigorous movement, the eagle rises with its wings spread across the width of the sheet, exhaling smoke as it drags a metal trap clamped to its talon and tied to a broken branch. At times, Adamma leapt up in the air with knees still bent and spread her arms wide. Changing to tabletop position, place the palms of your hands - fingers spread, pointing away from the wall - where your heels were. His hands - fingers spread - graze the surface of the quiet water while his eyes, black and narrow, attest to the mystery of childhood. And both men, talking to Marion, make a long, strong movement with their hands - Sam spreads both arms wide to agree with her, Norman's right arm will reach to a small, stuffed, nocturnal bird. They fashion a diamond shape between them by spreading their legs slightly and joining the soles of their feet. 2no object, with adverbial Extend over a large or increasing area. rain over north-west Scotland will spread south-east during the day Example sentencesExamples Lavarack Barracks is bound to the south by the imposing outcrop of Mt Stuart, with its range of foothills, and spreads northwards across a flat plain to the east-west axis of University Drive. Disease then develops in the stalk and rapidly spreads up the stalk and into the leaves. The appeal of football spreads wider yet and wider beyond the nation's boundaries. This invasive weed from southeast Asia covers more than 7 million U.S. acres and spreads across about 120,000 more each year. From the mid-'80s on, the number of growers expanded and the retail service area spread up and down the West Coast from San Francisco to Seattle and inland as far as Bend. Belly hair spreads over the area between belly-button and top pants button. Around them spreads not a desert but an opulent terrain. Synonyms grow, increase, escalate, advance, develop, broaden, expand, widen, proliferate, mushroom Medicine metastasize 2.1spread out (of a group of people) move apart so as to cover a wider area. the Marines spread out across the docks Example sentencesExamples Each member of the family spreads out into the community where they encounter other people that are equally unhappy. The fleet spreads out over the sea and orders are given to raise the anchors and run the sails up the masts. By spreading out, the band try to claim the stage, however with only ten performances under their belts, what lacks in self-assurance is certainly compensated for in mystifyingly thunderous guitars. As the bodies spread apart and crowd back together, they resemble characters continually rearranging themselves into words and sentences. ‘Our group and the Florida team,’ Goolsby says, ‘are spreading out all over the globe to find the best biological controls to use against climbing fern.’ Poignantly stated and played, the two guitarists spread out and cover the space. 2.2with object and adverbial Distribute or disperse (something) over an area. volcanic eruptions spread dust high into the stratosphere Example sentencesExamples The living quarters and studio spaces are spread around these two main parts. Manure can be spread as a solid or semi-solid in a box or flail spreader. Livestock are grazed to maintain and enhance perennial plant communities and spread manure over the ground. Frequently observed in connection with cabin groups is a tendency to spread the effects of their presence over a needlessly large area. Farmers commonly spread manure on their lands, a practice that often results in excess phosphorus being applied. He began by collecting cow manure from the village, which he spread on his fields - an uncommon practice in the area. ‘The wider the coverage, the less light the bulb projects because you are spreading the same amount of output over a larger area,’ explained Scott. Synonyms scatter, strew, disperse literary bestrew 2.3 Gradually reach or cause to reach a wider area or more people. no object the violence spread from the city centre to the suburbs with object she's always spreading rumours Example sentencesExamples This might be a good venue to spread your propaganda. However, the conference definitely fulfilled its role of connecting people and spreading news, methods, and strategies. These are all effective ways of spreading the good news. There is merely an earnest desire to spread some Yuletide fun and to tell a straightforward story of devotion, determination, and delight. But beware, there could be someone out there spreading impurities about our profession. Chuck a few flyers around select shops, harass the eardrums of certain people ‘in the know’ who will spread the word to the right people, then sit back and let the ensuing hype escalate. Moreover, most of these exhibitions are accompanied by major catalogues that confirm the status of these photographers while spreading their reputation still further. The program is all about young people like Holder being trained to speak with brutal honesty, and then to spread the message to literally thousands of students that there is a way out of violence. Visitors from America, Australia, and Canada, and from Japan as well, received a lot of negative coverage of the disease in the media, and some people decided not to visit the UK to avoid spreading the infection. When you do write criticism, are you looking for more notoriety, or to spread your opinions, or just to earn money, or is it something else? It's about systematically spreading this cultural idea of artists and writers having a space where intellectual publics can work together. You're going to spread your gospel the best you can. I just think it really spreads the word for our designs. And we, his children, simply by being his disciples and spreading the word, had became the first generation of kids to validate and popularize a comedy genius. In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on. Surviving into his 90th year, he got nearly four decades, post-Warner, to spread the good word about classical cartooning and to hear quite a few thrown his way. I note above the importance of textiles in spreading the message that the Mongols had created an empire. So then, if the electorate is tending to think in and act on smaller and smaller (not to say, more concise) messages, why not spread the word on T-shirts? Already people are volunteering to work with him on it, and once word spreads it seems likely that Johnnie will have more cast and crew than he knows what to do with. I am beginning to realize that one of my major beefs with mixing design and politics stems from celebrities using their platform to spread their propaganda. Synonyms disseminate, circulate, pass on, put about, communicate, diffuse, make public, make known, purvey, broadcast, publicize, propagate, promulgate repeat literary bruit about/abroad 2.4 (of people, animals, or plants) become distributed over a large or larger area. the owls have spread as far north as Kuala Lumpur Example sentencesExamples They use a rotation schedule in rooms, separating new bags from older ones, so that pests don't spread. ‘This perennial garden plant has become a noxious weed and is spreading rapidly throughout North America,’ says Farr. He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough. In several areas, they have escaped the planting sites and have begun to spread and outcompete native plants. I wrote saying that peacocks were a very good thing, and that wild ones were spreading across Somerset. In tact, climbing fern is spreading so rapidly that it's now the state's worst invasive weed. Plant and animal species alien to our ecosystem are spreading at ever-increasing rates throughout the land. Such corridors allow links between ecologically protected areas, so that plants and animals can spread from one to another and form a network. 2.5with object and adverbial Distribute in a specified way. you can spread the payments over as long a period as you like Example sentencesExamples Splitting the gig up into an acoustic and an electric set gave them the opportunity to spread the gig over two hours. In fairness, he spreads his venom equally between her and the other subjects of his book. 3with object and adverbial Apply (a substance) to an object or surface in an even layer. he sighed, spreading jam on a croissant Example sentencesExamples The 3D printer spreads one thin layer of powder over the print bed, then passes over the powder just as an inkjet printer head passes over paper. Synonyms smear, daub, plaster, slather, lather, apply, put smooth, rub 3.1 Cover (a surface) with a substance in an even layer. spread each slice thinly with mayonnaise Synonyms cover, coat, layer, daub, smother butter 3.2no object, with adverbial Be able to be applied in an even layer. a tub of unsalted butter that spreads so well Example sentencesExamples New Land O'Lakes Spreadable Butter with Canola oil is ready to spread right out of the refrigerator, with no need to soften. 4archaic with object Lay (a table) for a meal. Example sentencesExamples On November 25, 2003, we sat down with family and friends around a table spread with food we grew and said thanks. noun sprɛdsprɛd 1mass noun The fact or process of spreading over an area. warmer temperatures could help reduce the spread of the disease the spread of the urban population into rural areas Example sentencesExamples It is not yet known whether consumer resistance to GM food crops, such as rice, wheat, and food maize will be an obstacle to the spread of those crops. The rise and spread of theory was just one development. Fungicides can be applied when disease symptoms first appear to reduce their spread. Therefore, removal of a tree killed by pine wilt is essential to limit the spread of this disease. For decades, the UN has led efforts to control the development and spread of such weapons. To prevent the spread of potential disease, all eggs should come from the same source. Live bird markets have also played a role in the spread of epidemics. If plant pulling is not feasible, flower head removal helps reduce the spread of the seeds. Working with the fungus in noninfected areas is restricted to guard against potential spread. By a skilful use of maps and charts the author traces the development and spread of various religious movements, from the early Spanish Franciscans to the latest absurd creation. With the emergence and spread of AIDS in Japan in the 1980s, insensitivity toward gay men heightened. This knowledge is key to checking the spread of the disease and eradicating it from infected areas. But years of heavy rains in the area following the formation of the co-op caused the spread of a plant blight known as scab. The spread of journalism also created new problems for the authorities. New measures to help prevent the spread of Avian Influenza have been agreed by the European Commission. A more material reason for the recent spread of campus farms is probably the rise of community-supported agriculture. This feed is thought to have been responsible for the spread of BSE among cattle. In order to stop the fire's rapid spread, which was being fanned by strong easterly winds, King Charles II ordered that all houses in the fire's path be blown up or pulled down. In other words, precautionary killings to prohibit the spread of infection are becoming commonplace. Fortunately, researchers have discovered different strategies to control the spread of the virus. Synonyms expansion, proliferation, extension, growth, mushrooming, increase, escalation, buildout, advance, advancement, development dissemination, diffusion, transmission, propagation 2The extent, width, or area covered by something. the male's antlers can attain a spread of six feet Example sentencesExamples The planting hole should be larger than the spread of the root mass. Synonyms span, width, extent, stretch, reach 2.1 The wingspan of a bird. the red-tailed hawk has a four-and-a-half-foot spread 2.2 An expanse or amount of something. the green spread of the park Synonyms expanse, area, sweep, stretch 2.3North American A large farm or ranch. 3The range or variety of something. a wide spread of ages Example sentencesExamples Maybe that means greater audience spread and fewer must-see shows. Faces in the Crowd offers a wonderfully various and intelligently chosen spread of images. Synonyms range, span, spectrum, sweep variety 3.1 The difference between two rates or prices. the very narrow spread between borrowing and deposit rates Example sentencesExamples This should narrow the spread among grape and wine prices so evident in the 1990s. This is mainly because of the larger gains in rollover spreads. Financial industry debt spreads were widening meaningfully as well. Fluctuations in price spreads suggest relative variation in consumer demand and cattle supply entering the food chain. The study will look at retail prices, price spreads and movement of livestock markets. 3.2 short for point spread 4A soft paste that can be applied in a layer to bread or other food. low-fat spreads mass noun cheese spread Example sentencesExamples Touted for their cholesterol-lowering properties, phytosterols are found in commercially prepared margarines and spreads. Do not eat refrigerated pates or meat spreads. It's thought to be a beneficial fat and, in these analyses, ranged from 19 percent in one of the store brands to 27 percent in one of the natural-type spreads. In the spreads category, Lactoprot is developing upscale, high-end flavor profiles with cheese spreads in flavor combinations such as pepper and bacon or cheddar and smoked turkey. The cheese might be intended for individual slices, blocks or loaves for shredding, spreads, sauces, fillings, pastes or as industrial food ingredients. Process cheese can be coaxed into shapes or spreads and also is a featured ingredient in many other food products. In large part, that's due to scientific findings on the dangers of trans-fatty acids, prevalent in most margarines and spreads. According to product claims, these spreads lower cholesterol by as much as 10 to 14 percent. Butter processors are keeping a close eye on this new sub-category to determine if there's enough interest to add a similar spread to their own product lines. For pasteurized cheese spreads, the trend is to reduce cheese solids and add dairy solids such as whey protein. Several others are use patents for direct incorporation into human foods as ingredients or spreads. Products manufactured across the board include butter, dry and cultured products, spreads, cheese and cheese sauces. Adding a gum system to processed cheese spreads or artificial cheese products helps modify textural difficulties and helps the end product maintain desirable functional properties. Today's cheese and cheese spreads boast flavors that go far beyond the traditional smoke and bacon. Processed cheese food and processed cheese spread include additional ingredients such as dairy proteins and/or gums. But these spreads came with their own set of usability problems, particularly when it came to cooking or baking. Fay says he has seen the introduction this year of more peripheral items, such as cheese spreads. These spreads do not contain trans fatty acids. It helped boost sales of cheese spreads by more than 600 percent. Retailers can sell more bagels and bread with the spread at a convenient reach, creating an impulse purchase. Synonyms pâté 5An article or advertisement covering several columns or pages of a newspaper or magazine, especially one on two facing pages. a double-page spread Example sentencesExamples Nevertheless, he does show how Jeff Miller's student color studies became the foundation for three Speak magazine spreads. There are, however, several colored double-page spreads on which she has ‘hung’ her images. Printed as double-page spreads, the 47 photos are accompanied by poems and short stories selected by the artist to reflect her watery theme. Each building is presented in a double-page spread, with a brief descriptive text, an image or two and, of course, the plans, sections and elevations of the title. All the covers are faithfully reproduced here, together with page layouts and spreads. Why was this a great spread in Vanity Fair, or in Smithsonian or National Geographic? Additionally, Seventeen will run spreads in two issues touting the program. Recent runways and magazine spreads have featured luscious florals from Dolce & Gabbana, Bill Blass, Christian Lacroix and Prada. Running as part of an extensive magazine spread, the newspaper speculated that Foster was about to become Britain's first sidewalk surfing tycoon. Segal recently signed artist David Mann, who is well known for his recurring spreads in Easyriders magazine, to put out limited-edition prints from his original paintings. But in the end, House & Garden got the nod, running an eight-page spread in the February issue. He engages the entire article, not merely the flashy opening spread. And then we see Double Game's final two pages: a color spread of Calle's smile. Most ineffective was a large section of the exhibit in which framed spreads from the magazines jutted out from the wall. The book dummies, storyboards, jacket covers, and double page spreads were proudly displayed, still smelling strongly of glue and fixatives. Magazine spreads were next, then adult films, then drugs. He has the appearance and acting talent of a male underwear model lifted from a magazine spread. It owes something to the magazine page, the studio shot, and the fashion spread. The glacially cool images were published in the fashion spreads of such magazines as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in New York and Caballero in Mexico City. The Guardian's pages, on the other hand, though reduced in size, still feel big and expansive when you are looking at a spread and the quality of the design obviously helps here. 6informal A large and impressively elaborate meal. his mother laid on a huge spread Example sentencesExamples Yes, she's gone to an awful lot of trouble to assemble all your favourite people and prepare a lavish spread. Empty tummies don't make for a productive workforce so call in your mother or a friend to act as catering manager and do a spread rather than forking out at the chip shop. Fiftyish, 350-pound art dealers in suits ‘eat’ huge banquet spreads, gorging themselves with the sloppy abandon of famished Vikings, only to discover the food is merely a hallucination. The organizer of the event promises laughter and ‘a good spread of food and drink.’ Synonyms large/elaborate meal, feast, banquet, repast informal blowout, nosh 7North American A bedspread. a patchwork spread Example sentencesExamples She covered his body with the chenille spread and went inside to phone the undertaker. Synonyms bedspread, bedcover, cover, coverlet, throw, afghan British eiderdown North American comforter dated counterpane Phrases spread oneself too thin Be involved in so many different activities that one's time and energy are not used to good effect. Example sentencesExamples Both have formed partnerships with larger companies in order to take on big projects without spreading themselves too thin. As awesome as it is to be the girl who does it all, spreading yourself too thin will only leave you overstressed and underproductive. But it can't do that effectively if it spread itself too thin. We were able to meet the needs of a customer without bringing on more employees, spreading ourselves too thin or charging too much. If morale and motivation are poor, consider the possibility that you are simply spreading yourself too thin. There is a sense of having spread ourselves too thin. Do you worry about spreading yourself too thin? But I'm reading scripts all the time, because it is something that I would like to do, but I'm aware of spreading myself too thin. My colleagues sense this struggle, and often caution me about spreading myself too thin. Sadly, even Jones realised you can spread yourself too thin, often leading to poor choices. Derivatives spreadable adjective Fruit butters are made from fruit pulp cooked with sugar until thickened to a spreadable consistency. Example sentencesExamples Transfer frosting to a bowl and cool, stirring occasionally, until spreadable. It was flavoursome without being heavy and spreadable without being too soft, said my dining partner. This spreadable cheese is cured in crocks and used like butter. In natural peanut butter, some of the peanut oil rises to the top of the jar, and stirring it back in does more than make the peanut butter creamy and spreadable. Origin Old English -sprǣdan (used in combinations), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch spreiden and German spreiten. Rhymes abed, ahead, bed, behead, Birkenhead, bled, bread, bred, coed, cred, crossbred, dead, dread, Ed, embed, Enzed, fed, fled, Fred, gainsaid, head, infrared, ked, lead, led, Med, misled, misread, Ned, outspread, premed, pure-bred, read, red, redd, said, samoyed, shed, shred, sked, sled, sped, Spithead, stead, ted, thread, tread, underbred, underfed, wed verb.1 phr. Definition of spread in US English: spread verbspredsprɛd 1with object Open out (something) so as to extend its surface area, width, or length. I spread a towel on the sand and sat down she helped Chris to spread out the map Example sentencesExamples During such occasions it is usually the flag dancer who handles the flag or explains it in the presence of others in the company, who may help him spread it out. Synonyms lay out, open out, unfurl, unroll, roll out, shake out 1.1 Stretch out (arms, legs, hands, fingers, or wings) so that they are far apart. the swan spread its wings Example sentencesExamples In this work, filled with vigorous movement, the eagle rises with its wings spread across the width of the sheet, exhaling smoke as it drags a metal trap clamped to its talon and tied to a broken branch. Radio 1 presenter Sara Cox spreads her legs and gets stuck into a skateboarding simulation. They fashion a diamond shape between them by spreading their legs slightly and joining the soles of their feet. An enormous phoenix emerges from this skeletal volcano and spreads its wings. And both men, talking to Marion, make a long, strong movement with their hands - Sam spreads both arms wide to agree with her, Norman's right arm will reach to a small, stuffed, nocturnal bird. Their pudgy little hands are variously balled for punches, or raised in preparation for an opened-handed smack, fingers spread wide. They are spreading their bodies out, their weight is differently distributed. To make a roll, spread the fingers of the opposite hand wide apart and make them rigid. When it kicked at night and woke her, Emma spread her fingertips over the foreign swell that was her own body and imagined the baby spoke to her in a secret, atonal humming. At the end, the entire cast advanced toward the audience, arms spread wide to envelop us in their Romantic reverie. Wings spread, it appears poised for flight, ready to soar over Lake Michigan, an opalescent blue in early summer. At times, Adamma leapt up in the air with knees still bent and spread her arms wide. Changing to tabletop position, place the palms of your hands - fingers spread, pointing away from the wall - where your heels were. His hands - fingers spread - graze the surface of the quiet water while his eyes, black and narrow, attest to the mystery of childhood. Upstairs on the third floor landing she is waiting for him, arms spread wide in greeting. You saw it when he walked along the street, his arms spread wide. She looks upward, her wide eyes and almost-open lips seeming vulnerable, her elegant fingers spread and wrists bent outward in front of her so that her hands frame the strong bones of her face. 2no object, with adverbial Extend over a large or increasing area. she stood at the window looking at the town spread out below Example sentencesExamples The appeal of football spreads wider yet and wider beyond the nation's boundaries. Belly hair spreads over the area between belly-button and top pants button. Disease then develops in the stalk and rapidly spreads up the stalk and into the leaves. Lavarack Barracks is bound to the south by the imposing outcrop of Mt Stuart, with its range of foothills, and spreads northwards across a flat plain to the east-west axis of University Drive. From the mid-'80s on, the number of growers expanded and the retail service area spread up and down the West Coast from San Francisco to Seattle and inland as far as Bend. This invasive weed from southeast Asia covers more than 7 million U.S. acres and spreads across about 120,000 more each year. Around them spreads not a desert but an opulent terrain. Synonyms grow, increase, escalate, advance, develop, broaden, expand, widen, proliferate, mushroom 2.1spread out (of a group of people) move apart so as to cover a wider area. the Marines spread out across the docks Example sentencesExamples As the bodies spread apart and crowd back together, they resemble characters continually rearranging themselves into words and sentences. The fleet spreads out over the sea and orders are given to raise the anchors and run the sails up the masts. Each member of the family spreads out into the community where they encounter other people that are equally unhappy. By spreading out, the band try to claim the stage, however with only ten performances under their belts, what lacks in self-assurance is certainly compensated for in mystifyingly thunderous guitars. Poignantly stated and played, the two guitarists spread out and cover the space. ‘Our group and the Florida team,’ Goolsby says, ‘are spreading out all over the globe to find the best biological controls to use against climbing fern.’ 2.2with object and adverbial Distribute or disperse (something) over a certain area. volcanic eruptions spread dust high into the stratosphere Example sentencesExamples The living quarters and studio spaces are spread around these two main parts. ‘The wider the coverage, the less light the bulb projects because you are spreading the same amount of output over a larger area,’ explained Scott. Livestock are grazed to maintain and enhance perennial plant communities and spread manure over the ground. Frequently observed in connection with cabin groups is a tendency to spread the effects of their presence over a needlessly large area. He began by collecting cow manure from the village, which he spread on his fields - an uncommon practice in the area. Manure can be spread as a solid or semi-solid in a box or flail spreader. Farmers commonly spread manure on their lands, a practice that often results in excess phosphorus being applied. Synonyms scatter, strew, disperse 2.3 Gradually reach or cause to reach a larger and larger area or more and more people. no object the violence spread from the city to the suburbs with object she's always spreading rumors about other people Example sentencesExamples It's about systematically spreading this cultural idea of artists and writers having a space where intellectual publics can work together. Chuck a few flyers around select shops, harass the eardrums of certain people ‘in the know’ who will spread the word to the right people, then sit back and let the ensuing hype escalate. In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on. However, the conference definitely fulfilled its role of connecting people and spreading news, methods, and strategies. Surviving into his 90th year, he got nearly four decades, post-Warner, to spread the good word about classical cartooning and to hear quite a few thrown his way. I am beginning to realize that one of my major beefs with mixing design and politics stems from celebrities using their platform to spread their propaganda. Already people are volunteering to work with him on it, and once word spreads it seems likely that Johnnie will have more cast and crew than he knows what to do with. Moreover, most of these exhibitions are accompanied by major catalogues that confirm the status of these photographers while spreading their reputation still further. I just think it really spreads the word for our designs. And we, his children, simply by being his disciples and spreading the word, had became the first generation of kids to validate and popularize a comedy genius. But beware, there could be someone out there spreading impurities about our profession. So then, if the electorate is tending to think in and act on smaller and smaller (not to say, more concise) messages, why not spread the word on T-shirts? Visitors from America, Australia, and Canada, and from Japan as well, received a lot of negative coverage of the disease in the media, and some people decided not to visit the UK to avoid spreading the infection. The program is all about young people like Holder being trained to speak with brutal honesty, and then to spread the message to literally thousands of students that there is a way out of violence. I note above the importance of textiles in spreading the message that the Mongols had created an empire. There is merely an earnest desire to spread some Yuletide fun and to tell a straightforward story of devotion, determination, and delight. You're going to spread your gospel the best you can. These are all effective ways of spreading the good news. This might be a good venue to spread your propaganda. When you do write criticism, are you looking for more notoriety, or to spread your opinions, or just to earn money, or is it something else? Synonyms disseminate, circulate, pass on, put about, communicate, diffuse, make public, make known, purvey, broadcast, publicize, propagate, promulgate 2.4 (of people, animals, or plants) become distributed over a large or larger area. the owls have spread as far north as Yellowknife Example sentencesExamples In several areas, they have escaped the planting sites and have begun to spread and outcompete native plants. Plant and animal species alien to our ecosystem are spreading at ever-increasing rates throughout the land. ‘This perennial garden plant has become a noxious weed and is spreading rapidly throughout North America,’ says Farr. He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough. Such corridors allow links between ecologically protected areas, so that plants and animals can spread from one to another and form a network. In tact, climbing fern is spreading so rapidly that it's now the state's worst invasive weed. They use a rotation schedule in rooms, separating new bags from older ones, so that pests don't spread. I wrote saying that peacocks were a very good thing, and that wild ones were spreading across Somerset. 2.5with object and adverbial Distribute (something) in a specified way. you can spread the payments over as long a period as you like Example sentencesExamples Splitting the gig up into an acoustic and an electric set gave them the opportunity to spread the gig over two hours. In fairness, he spreads his venom equally between her and the other subjects of his book. 3with object and adverbial Apply (a substance) to an object or surface in an even layer. he sighed, spreading jam on a croissant Example sentencesExamples The 3D printer spreads one thin layer of powder over the print bed, then passes over the powder just as an inkjet printer head passes over paper. Synonyms smear, daub, plaster, slather, lather, apply, put 3.1 Cover (a surface) with a substance in an even layer. spread each slice thinly with mayonnaise Synonyms cover, coat, layer, daub, smother 3.2no object, with adverbial Be able to be applied in an even layer. the whipped butter spreads easily Example sentencesExamples New Land O'Lakes Spreadable Butter with Canola oil is ready to spread right out of the refrigerator, with no need to soften. 4archaic with object Lay (a table) for a meal. Example sentencesExamples On November 25, 2003, we sat down with family and friends around a table spread with food we grew and said thanks. nounspredsprɛd 1The fact or process of spreading over an area. warmer temperatures could help reduce the spread of the disease the spread of the urban population into rural areas Example sentencesExamples With the emergence and spread of AIDS in Japan in the 1980s, insensitivity toward gay men heightened. In other words, precautionary killings to prohibit the spread of infection are becoming commonplace. In order to stop the fire's rapid spread, which was being fanned by strong easterly winds, King Charles II ordered that all houses in the fire's path be blown up or pulled down. But years of heavy rains in the area following the formation of the co-op caused the spread of a plant blight known as scab. Fungicides can be applied when disease symptoms first appear to reduce their spread. This feed is thought to have been responsible for the spread of BSE among cattle. It is not yet known whether consumer resistance to GM food crops, such as rice, wheat, and food maize will be an obstacle to the spread of those crops. New measures to help prevent the spread of Avian Influenza have been agreed by the European Commission. By a skilful use of maps and charts the author traces the development and spread of various religious movements, from the early Spanish Franciscans to the latest absurd creation. The spread of journalism also created new problems for the authorities. The rise and spread of theory was just one development. A more material reason for the recent spread of campus farms is probably the rise of community-supported agriculture. To prevent the spread of potential disease, all eggs should come from the same source. Therefore, removal of a tree killed by pine wilt is essential to limit the spread of this disease. If plant pulling is not feasible, flower head removal helps reduce the spread of the seeds. Fortunately, researchers have discovered different strategies to control the spread of the virus. This knowledge is key to checking the spread of the disease and eradicating it from infected areas. For decades, the UN has led efforts to control the development and spread of such weapons. Live bird markets have also played a role in the spread of epidemics. Working with the fungus in noninfected areas is restricted to guard against potential spread. Synonyms expansion, proliferation, extension, growth, mushrooming, increase, escalation, buildout, advance, advancement, development 2The extent, width, or area covered by something. the male's antlers can attain a spread of six feet Example sentencesExamples The planting hole should be larger than the spread of the root mass. Synonyms span, width, extent, stretch, reach 2.1 The wingspan of a bird. 2.2 An expanse or amount of something. the green spread of the park Synonyms expanse, area, sweep, stretch 2.3North American A large farm or ranch. 3The range or variety of something. a wide spread of ages Example sentencesExamples Maybe that means greater audience spread and fewer must-see shows. Faces in the Crowd offers a wonderfully various and intelligently chosen spread of images. Synonyms range, span, spectrum, sweep 3.1 The difference between two rates or prices. the very narrow spread between borrowing and deposit rates Example sentencesExamples Fluctuations in price spreads suggest relative variation in consumer demand and cattle supply entering the food chain. Financial industry debt spreads were widening meaningfully as well. This is mainly because of the larger gains in rollover spreads. The study will look at retail prices, price spreads and movement of livestock markets. This should narrow the spread among grape and wine prices so evident in the 1990s. 3.2 short for point spread 4A soft paste that can be applied in a layer to bread or other food. Example sentencesExamples Several others are use patents for direct incorporation into human foods as ingredients or spreads. In large part, that's due to scientific findings on the dangers of trans-fatty acids, prevalent in most margarines and spreads. In the spreads category, Lactoprot is developing upscale, high-end flavor profiles with cheese spreads in flavor combinations such as pepper and bacon or cheddar and smoked turkey. According to product claims, these spreads lower cholesterol by as much as 10 to 14 percent. Today's cheese and cheese spreads boast flavors that go far beyond the traditional smoke and bacon. It helped boost sales of cheese spreads by more than 600 percent. The cheese might be intended for individual slices, blocks or loaves for shredding, spreads, sauces, fillings, pastes or as industrial food ingredients. Fay says he has seen the introduction this year of more peripheral items, such as cheese spreads. But these spreads came with their own set of usability problems, particularly when it came to cooking or baking. Do not eat refrigerated pates or meat spreads. Process cheese can be coaxed into shapes or spreads and also is a featured ingredient in many other food products. Retailers can sell more bagels and bread with the spread at a convenient reach, creating an impulse purchase. Products manufactured across the board include butter, dry and cultured products, spreads, cheese and cheese sauces. For pasteurized cheese spreads, the trend is to reduce cheese solids and add dairy solids such as whey protein. Adding a gum system to processed cheese spreads or artificial cheese products helps modify textural difficulties and helps the end product maintain desirable functional properties. Processed cheese food and processed cheese spread include additional ingredients such as dairy proteins and/or gums. It's thought to be a beneficial fat and, in these analyses, ranged from 19 percent in one of the store brands to 27 percent in one of the natural-type spreads. These spreads do not contain trans fatty acids. Touted for their cholesterol-lowering properties, phytosterols are found in commercially prepared margarines and spreads. Butter processors are keeping a close eye on this new sub-category to determine if there's enough interest to add a similar spread to their own product lines. Synonyms pâté 5An article or advertisement covering several columns or pages of a newspaper or magazine, especially one on two facing pages. a double-page spread Example sentencesExamples Running as part of an extensive magazine spread, the newspaper speculated that Foster was about to become Britain's first sidewalk surfing tycoon. The glacially cool images were published in the fashion spreads of such magazines as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in New York and Caballero in Mexico City. Nevertheless, he does show how Jeff Miller's student color studies became the foundation for three Speak magazine spreads. He has the appearance and acting talent of a male underwear model lifted from a magazine spread. All the covers are faithfully reproduced here, together with page layouts and spreads. It owes something to the magazine page, the studio shot, and the fashion spread. Magazine spreads were next, then adult films, then drugs. Additionally, Seventeen will run spreads in two issues touting the program. Why was this a great spread in Vanity Fair, or in Smithsonian or National Geographic? But in the end, House & Garden got the nod, running an eight-page spread in the February issue. The Guardian's pages, on the other hand, though reduced in size, still feel big and expansive when you are looking at a spread and the quality of the design obviously helps here. There are, however, several colored double-page spreads on which she has ‘hung’ her images. Most ineffective was a large section of the exhibit in which framed spreads from the magazines jutted out from the wall. Each building is presented in a double-page spread, with a brief descriptive text, an image or two and, of course, the plans, sections and elevations of the title. The book dummies, storyboards, jacket covers, and double page spreads were proudly displayed, still smelling strongly of glue and fixatives. Recent runways and magazine spreads have featured luscious florals from Dolce & Gabbana, Bill Blass, Christian Lacroix and Prada. Segal recently signed artist David Mann, who is well known for his recurring spreads in Easyriders magazine, to put out limited-edition prints from his original paintings. And then we see Double Game's final two pages: a color spread of Calle's smile. Printed as double-page spreads, the 47 photos are accompanied by poems and short stories selected by the artist to reflect her watery theme. He engages the entire article, not merely the flashy opening spread. 6informal A large and impressively elaborate meal. Example sentencesExamples Fiftyish, 350-pound art dealers in suits ‘eat’ huge banquet spreads, gorging themselves with the sloppy abandon of famished Vikings, only to discover the food is merely a hallucination. Empty tummies don't make for a productive workforce so call in your mother or a friend to act as catering manager and do a spread rather than forking out at the chip shop. The organizer of the event promises laughter and ‘a good spread of food and drink.’ Yes, she's gone to an awful lot of trouble to assemble all your favourite people and prepare a lavish spread. Synonyms elaborate meal, large meal, feast, banquet, repast 7North American A bedspread. Example sentencesExamples She covered his body with the chenille spread and went inside to phone the undertaker. Synonyms bedspread, bedcover, cover, coverlet, throw, afghan Phrases spread oneself too thin Be involved in so many different activities or projects that one's time and energy are not used to good effect. Example sentencesExamples We were able to meet the needs of a customer without bringing on more employees, spreading ourselves too thin or charging too much. But I'm reading scripts all the time, because it is something that I would like to do, but I'm aware of spreading myself too thin. Do you worry about spreading yourself too thin? If morale and motivation are poor, consider the possibility that you are simply spreading yourself too thin. As awesome as it is to be the girl who does it all, spreading yourself too thin will only leave you overstressed and underproductive. Sadly, even Jones realised you can spread yourself too thin, often leading to poor choices. There is a sense of having spread ourselves too thin. But it can't do that effectively if it spread itself too thin. Both have formed partnerships with larger companies in order to take on big projects without spreading themselves too thin. My colleagues sense this struggle, and often caution me about spreading myself too thin. Origin Old English -sprǣdan (used in combinations), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch spreiden and German spreiten. verb.1 phr.
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