spread

Definitions

General English

General Science

  • verb to move out over a large

    area

Accounting

  • noun the difference between buying and selling prices, i.e. between the bid and offer prices
  • verb to space something out over a period of time

Agriculture

  • verb to put something such as

    manure

    ,

    fertiliser

    or

    mulch

    on an

    area

    of ground

Aviation

  • noun an extension of the

    area

    covered or affected by something

Construction

  • Mobile power

    equipment

    , such as a

    paving

    spread or earth-moving spread, under the direction of a

    superintendent

    .
  • Same as range; the difference between prices or bids.

Electronics

  • To extend, or to extend from a given point or

    location

    . Also, to have extended, or to be extended from a given point or location.
  • To

    distribute

    over a surface, or within a volume. Also, to have

    distributed

    over a surface, or within a volume.
  • To increase the size of a gap. Also, to have the size of a gap increased.
  • The limits within which a value fluctuation may occur. Also, the limits within which a value fluctuation actually occurs.

Food

  • A

    semi

    -solid

    savoury

    paste spread on bread for sandwiches or on toast for canapés, also any soft food item which can easily be spread

Marketing

  • noun two facing pages in a magazine or

    newspaper

    used by an advertiser for a single advertisement running across the two pages

Media Studies

  • noun an

    advertisement

    or

    story

    that occupies two or more columns in a

    newspaper

    or magazine
  • noun two facing pages in a

    newspaper

    , magazine or book, often with material printed across the fold

Medical

  • verb to go out over a large area, or to cause something to do this

Publishing

  • noun two facing pages in a book or magazine, which are treated as a single item and designed together
  • noun the tendency of ink to creep outwards by absorption into the paper
  • verb to thicken the lines of an image to make them reproduce better

Origin & History of “spread”

Spread is a general

west

Germanic word,

with

relatives in German spreiten and Dutch speiden.

these

point back to a common prehistoric

ancestor

*spraidjan.

where

that

came

from

is not clear, although it may

have

links with Latin spargere ‘scatter, sprinkle’ (source of

English

aspersion (16th c.) and sparse (18th c.)) and Greek speírein ‘sow’ (a relative of English sperm, spore, etc).
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