spread

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /spɹiːd/    美 /spɹid/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
    — If debate is a game, then the execution of a "spread" is like a well-timed blitz in football. Convincing a judge that your opponents' arguments would cause human extinction is equivalent to a successful Hail Mary pass.
  2. The act of spreading. countable,uncountable
    — No flower hath that kind of spread that the woodbine hath.
  3. Something that has been spread. countable,uncountable
  4. A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading. countable,uncountable
  5. An expanse of land. countable,uncountable
    — November 29, 1712, Andrew Freeport, a letter to The Spectator I have got a fine spread of improvable lands.
  6. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch. countable,uncountable
    — - Can't wait till I get my own spread and won't have to put up with Joe Aguirre's crap no more.
  7. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread). countable,uncountable
    — Linen shawls and spreads show up in secondhand clothing stores like those in the row on St. Marks Place in New York City.
  8. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table. countable,uncountable
  9. Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams. countable,uncountable,usually
    — Ferd liked to experiment with sandwich spreads ― the one he liked most was cream-cheese, olives, anchovy and avocado, mashed up with a little mayonnaise ― but Oscar always had the same pink luncheon-meat.
  10. A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships. countable,uncountable
    — Johnston, meanwhile, has managed to get within five miles of its target, and fires a full spread of ten torpedoes. Minutes later, at least two, possibly three, tear the bow off the hapless cruiser Kumano. First blood, unbelievably, therefore, goes to the Americans.
  11. Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food. slang,uncountable
  12. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page. countable,uncountable
  13. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc. countable,uncountable
  14. A numerical difference. countable,uncountable
  15. A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average. countable,uncountable
    — The spread is usually measured using standard deviation and variance.
  16. The difference between the wholesale and retail prices. countable,uncountable
  17. The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity. countable,uncountable
  18. The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity. countable,uncountable
  19. The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity. countable,uncountable
  20. An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies. countable,uncountable
  21. The difference between bidding and asking price. countable,uncountable
  22. The difference between the prices of two similar items. countable,uncountable
  23. An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points. countable,uncountable
  24. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone. countable,uncountable
  25. Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper. countable,uncountable
  26. The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match. countable,uncountable
    — College basketball games don't lack for gambling propositions—the moneyline, a straightforward wager on which team will win; the over-under gamble on the total number of points scored by both teams—but the most popular wager is the spread. The spread represents the predicted difference between the two teams in the final score of the game.
动词 v.
  1. To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space. transitive
    — He spread his newspaper on the table.
  2. To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace. intransitive,transitive
    — You're assuming that if someone spreads they aren't a good orator. That's flawed logic.
  3. To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread transitive
    — I spread my arms wide and welcomed him home.
  4. To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area. transitive
    — I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor.
  5. To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated. intransitive
    — Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
  6. To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present. transitive
    — The missionaries quickly spread their new message across the country.
  7. To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended. intransitive
    — I dropped my glass; the water spread quickly over the tiled floor.
  8. To smear, to distribute in a thin layer. transitive
    — She liked to spread butter on her toast while it was still hot.
  9. To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter. transitive
    — He always spreads his toast with peanut butter and strawberry jam.
  10. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
    — to spread a table
  11. To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours. intransitive,slang
    — This often sounds like the rap of a demented DJ: the way she moves has got to be good news, can't get loose till I feel the juice— suck and spread, bitch, yeah bounce for me baby.

词形变化

spreads present,singular,third-person spreading participle,present spread participle,past spread past spreads plural spreads present,singular,third-person spreading participle,present spread participle,past spread past spreads plural

词汇关系

近义词
disseminate circulate propagate diffuse put about straddle
衍生词
antispread antispreader aspread bandspread bear spread bedspread bespread bespreading bid-ask spread broadspread broadspreading calendar spread center spread centerspread centre spread cheese spread chocolate spread community spread credit spread cytospread despread despreading diagonal spread dispread dispreader dispreading double-page spread double spread flame spread forespread forspread landspreading manspreading middle-age spread midspread misspread muckspreader muck spreader nonspreadable outspread outspreading outspreadingly overspread overspreadest overspreadeth overspreading photospread ratio spread re-spread respread respreading reverse ratio spread ribbon spread rune spread sandwich spread sea-floor spreading seafloor spreading secretary spread spark spread spraddle spreadability spreadable spreadably spreadation spread bet spread betting spreadboard spread-eagle spreadeagle spread eagle spread-eagled spreadeagling spreadee spreader spreadest spreadeth Spreadhead spreadin' spreading spreading elm spreading gooseberry spreadingly spreadingness spread it on thick spread like wildfire spread limit spreadly spreadmart spread oneself thin spread oneself too thin spread one's legs spread one's net wide spread one's wings spread operator spread out spreadsheet spreadsheeting spreadsheetlike spread spectrum communication spread syntax spread tail spread the bed spread the word spreadwing spready superspreader TED spread time spread underspread unspread unspreadable upspread widerspread widespread wide-spread widespreadness wingspread

词源

词源 1
From Middle English spreden, from Old English sprǣdan (“to spread, expand”), from Proto-Germanic *spraidijaną (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian spreede (“to spread”), West Frisian spriede (“to spread”), North Frisian spriedjen (“to spread”), Dutch spreiden (“to spread”), Low German spreden (“to spread”), German spreiten (“to spread, spread out”), Danish sprede (“to spread”), Norwegian spre, spreie (“to spread, disseminate”), Swedish sprida (“to spread”), Latin spernō, spargō, Ancient Greek σπείρω (speírō), Persian سپردن (sepordan, “to deposit”), English spurn.
词源 2
Blend of speed + read.
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