spread
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(noun) act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time |
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Synonyms: spreading |
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Related Words: decentralisation, decentralization, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, extension, scatter, scattering, strewing |
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(verb) distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country" |
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Synonyms: distribute |
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Related Words: deploy, diffuse, discharge, fan out, generalize, metastasize, propagate, redistribute, sprawl, spread, spread out, straggle, straw, strew |
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Antonyms: gather |
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(verb) become distributed or widespread; "the infection spread"; "Optimism spread among the population" |
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Related Words: catch, move |
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(verb) distribute over a surface in a layer; "bread cheese on a piece of bread" |
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(verb) cover by spreading something over; "spread the bread with cheese" |
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Related Words: cover, slather |
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(verb) strew or distribute over an area; "He spread fertilizer over the lawn"; "scatter cards across the table" |
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Synonyms: scatter, spread out |
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Related Words: birdlime, circulate, circumfuse, distribute, lime, manure, muck, pass around, pass on |
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(satellite adjective) prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out; "a table spread with food" |
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(verb) spread across or over; "A big oil spot spread across the water" |
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Synonyms: overspread |
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Related Words: cover, extend |
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(noun) two facing pages of a book or other publication |
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Synonyms: facing pages, spreadhead |
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Related Words: page |
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(noun) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space |
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Synonyms: spreading |
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Related Words: change of location, diffusion, dispersion, scattering, travel |
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(noun) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers |
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Synonyms: paste |
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Related Words: anchovy butter, cheese spread, condiment, fishpaste, garlic butter, lobster butter, margarin, margarine, marge, marshmallow fluff, nut butter, oleo, oleomargarine, onion butter, pate, peanut butter, pimento butter, shrimp butter, tapenade |
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(satellite adjective) distributed or spread over a considerable extent; "has ties with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe" |
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Synonyms: dispersed |
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(verb) of information |
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Synonyms: circulate, go around |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, travel |
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(verb) spread out or open from a folded state; "open the map" |
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Synonyms: open, spread out, unfold |
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Related Words: divaricate, exfoliate, grass, splay, uncross, undo |
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(satellite adjective) fully extended in width; "outspread wings"; "with arms spread wide" |
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Synonyms: outspread |
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(verb) move outward; "The soldiers fanned out" |
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Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread out |
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Related Words: bleed, creep, distribute, grow over, mantle, percolate, run, spread |
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(noun) a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) |
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Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, ranch |
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Related Words: farm |
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(noun) a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures: "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread between lending and borrowing costs" |
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Synonyms: gap |
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Related Words: disparity |
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(noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions |
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Synonyms: scatter |
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Related Words: diffuseness, dispersion, distribution |
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(noun) decorative cover for a bed |
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Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, bedspread, counterpane |
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Related Words: bed clothing, bedclothes, bedding, coverlet, quilted bedspread |
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(verb) as of information |
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Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate |
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Related Words: air, bandy about, bare, carry, popularize, publicise, publicize, run, sough, sow, vulgarize |
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