English Dictionary

spread

/spɹɛd/

noun

The act of spreading. / Something that has been spread. / (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading. / An expanse of land.

The spread of the virus is a major concern.

意味（1）

The act of spreading.

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

意味（2）

Something that has been spread.

意味（3）

(cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.

意味（4）

An expanse of land.

I have got a fine spread of improvable lands.

意味（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.

Can't wait till I get my own spread and won't have to put up with Joe Aguirre's crap no more. I'm savin' for a place myself.

意味（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.

意味（7）

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

意味（8）

(bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.

意味（9）

(military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.

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.

意味（10）

(prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.

意味（11）

An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.

意味（12）

Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.

意味（13）

A numerical difference.

意味（14）

(business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.

意味（15）

(trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.

意味（16）

(trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.

意味（17）

(trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.

意味（18）

(trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.

意味（19）

(trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.

意味（20）

(finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.

意味（21）

(geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.

意味（22）

The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

意味（23）

Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.