spreadverb詞源 1/spɹɛd/

• 1

  To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.

  • He spread his newspaper on the table.
• 2

  To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread

  • I spread my arms wide and welcomed him home.
• 3

  To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.

  • I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor.
• 4

  To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.

  • 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.
  • As the Erzurum affair indicated, the janissaries in the provinces and in the capital city were in close touch, and thus the movements were quick to spread to Istanbul.
• 5

  To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.

  • The missionaries quickly spread their new message across the country.
• 6

  To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.

  • I dropped my glass; the water spread quickly over the tiled floor.
• 7

  To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.

  • She liked to spread butter on her toast while it was still hot.
• 8

  To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.

  • He always spreads his toast with peanut butter and strawberry jam.

spreadnoun詞源 1/spɹɛd/

• 1

  The act of spreading.

  • No flower hath that kind of spread that the woodbine hath.
• 2

  Something that has been spread.

• 3

  cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismA layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.

• 4

  An expanse of land.

  • November 29, 1712, Andrew Freeport, a letter to The Spectator I have got a fine spread of improvable lands.
• 5

  A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.

  • - Can't wait till I get my own spread and won't have to put up with Joe Aguirre's crap no more.
• 6

  A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).

  • Linen shawls and spreads show up in secondhand clothing stores like those in the row on St. Marks Place in New York City.
• 7

  A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.

• 8

  Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.

  • 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.

spreadverb詞源 2/spɹiːd/

• 1

  To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.

  • You're assuming that if someone spreads they aren't a good orator. That's flawed logic.
  • In my first year on the circuit, I learned to spread and did decently well. I won most of my rounds, not that I could tell you how I did it.

spreadnoun詞源 2/spɹiːd/

• 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.
  • It's one L ur chillin just keep practicing read the ballets figure what you did wrong and practice with improvements in mind, get better at spreads and k theory debates.