spreading

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act by which something is spread. countable,uncountable
    — Small numbers [of meadowlarks] remain on farms in the southern counties throughout the winter, usually relying on fresh manure spreadings for food when snow covers the fields.
  2. The act of spreading (speedreading). uncountable
    — Chief among the strategies exploiting this rule was "spreading" (a combination of "speed" and "reading"), where debaters would rattle off arguments at a blistering pace. Their speeches often exceeded 300 words per minute. (A conversational pace is about 60 per minute.)
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of spread form-of,gerund,participle,present
    — And so, unfortunately, this great and spreading network of railways, that recently showed such promise as a major instrument in the modern development of China, must be left for the time being in the melting-pot of Armageddon.
  2. present participle and gerund of spread form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

spreadings plural

词源

词源 1
By surface analysis, spread + -ing.
词源 2
Blend of speed + reading.
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