v
(transitive) To sow; sow all around or about; scatter; disperse; plant.
v
(transitive) To spread over; to cover with.
v
(transitive, agriculture, horticulture, archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.
adj
Highly concentrated, or packed into a small space.
v
To recombine radio signals that have been spread or distributed.
v
(obsolete) To spread out; to expand.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
v
(archaic, rare) To spread out, to extend.
n
(archaic) One who spreads or propagates.
v
Alternative form of dispread [(archaic, rare) To spread out, to extend.]
v
(transitive) To layer with scales.
v
Obsolete form of instrew. [(transitive) To strew about; scatter in or upon; spread.]
adj
(obsolete) Spread wide; outspread.
n
A type of transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image.
v
To spread out into the shape of a fan
v
(intransitive) To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
n
(very rare) That which is spread or laid out before.
v
(transitive, intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To spread; extend.
v
(slang) To undergo a glow-up.
v
To rise or become larger.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To spread, especially in a destructive manner.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To grow quickly to a large size.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To spread out; expand; extend.
v
(poetic) To excel in shining; to outshine.
v
(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, silver.
v
(intransitive) To be spread or scattered about.
v
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
v
(transitive) To be in every part of; to spread through.
adj
(entomology, botany) stretched out or forward
v
(transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
n
(rare) The flowing or moving outward in abundance.
v
(figuratively) To spread abroad; to propagate.
v
(intransitive) To become, or appear to become longer and thinner.
v
(transitive) To extend through the distance between or across.
v
Obsolete form of spread. [(transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.]
v
(transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
v
(intransitive, simile) To spread or disseminate rapidly or uncontrollably.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To place items further apart.
v
(transitive) To put into a spread-eagle position, with arms and legs extended and spread.
n
(rare) That which is being spread on; the target of spreading.
n
An object or person who spreads.
n
(informal) A spreadsheet.
v
Obsolete form of spread. [(transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.]
v
Obsolete form of spread. [(transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.]
v
Obsolete form of spread. [(transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.]
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in.
v
(transitive) To make steeper.
n
(uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
n
The act by which something is stretched.
v
(transitive, archaic) To spread abroad; to disseminate.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To pour (something) over or on something else.
adj
Narrowing gradually towards a point.
n
(physics, engineering) Force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on, in, or of, e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).
v
To progress cyclically through various phases.
n
Alternative form of etendue. [(optics) A conserved property of the light in an optical system which characterizes how "spread out" the light is in terms of angle and area: it is the product of its cross-sectional area (normal to the direction of propagation) and the solid angle it subtends.]
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