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noun
- The state of being dispersed.
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- spreading widely or driving off
- (physics) The separation of waves of different frequency in space or time; the amount of such separation.
- A process of dispersing.
- (medicine) The removal of inflammation.
- The degree of scatter of data.
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
verb
- distribute or disperse widely
- spread throughout a given area
- cause to become widely known
- be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses
- cause to be distributed
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- release a publication
- be mathematically distributive
- give to several people
- to arrange in a systematic order
- (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
- (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
- (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
- (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
- (transitive) To scatter or spread.
- (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
- (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
- (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
- (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
- (business) To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
- (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
verb
- distribute or disperse widely
- become distributed or widespread
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread across or over
- (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- (intransitive, transitive, debating slang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
- (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread
adj
noun
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- decorative cover for a bed
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The act of spreading.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
- (debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- A numerical difference.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- An expanse of land.
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
- (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
- (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
- (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- Something that has been spread.
- (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
noun
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
- spreading widely or driving off
- the act of scattering
- the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- (elections) The total number of votes awarded to nonmajor or unlisted candidates.
- (physics) The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.
verb
noun
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- A scattering.
- the act of sprinkling or splashing water
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
- The action of the verb to sprinkle.
- A light shower of rain.
- A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
verb
verb
- be dispersed or disseminated
- pass away rapidly
- display in the air or cause to float
- move quickly or suddenly
- change quickly from one emotional state to another
- hit a fly
- travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- cause to fly or float
- travel in an airplane
- run away quickly
- decrease rapidly and disappear
- operate an airplane
- transport by aeroplane
- travel through the air; be airborne
- (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
- (intransitive, entomology, of a type of moth or butterfly) To be in the winged adult stage.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
- (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
- (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
- (intransitive) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
- (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
- (intransitive) To proceed with great success.
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
adj
noun
- fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
- an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
- (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
- two-winged insects characterized by active flight
- (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- An act of flying.
- (historical) A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
- (American football) Ellipsis of fly route.
- The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- The moving portion of an extendable ladder.
- Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”).
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
- (cotton manufacture) Waste cotton.
- (finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).
- One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
- (baseball) A fly ball.
- (rustic, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
- The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
- Ellipsis of flywheel.
- The free edge of a flag.
- (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
noun
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
- (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
- the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
- The result of distributing; arrangement.
- (rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
- (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
- (mathematics, differential geometry) A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.
- An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
- The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
- (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
- (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
- (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
- An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
- The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
- (card games) The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
- (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
- (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
- Anything distributed; portion; share.
- (software) A set of bundled software components.
- (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
adj
verb
- become distributed or widespread
- cause to become widely known
- transmit
- travel through the air
- cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering
- transmit or cause to broaden or spread
- transmit from one generation to the next
- multiply sexually or asexually
- (transitive) To generate; to produce.
- (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
- (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.
- (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
- (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.
- (intransitive) To be propagated; to travel.
- (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
- (transitive, computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
adj
- not widely distributed
- recurring only at long intervals
- marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind
- having low density
- (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside
- not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness
- (medicine, pathology) Small in number (but not unusual); infrequent; sparse.
- Very uncommon; scarce.
- (cooking) Particularly of meat, especially beefsteak: cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red.
- (of a gas) Thin; of low density.
- (UK, slang) Good; enjoyable.
noun
verb
adj
verb
- cause to become widely known
- spread or diffuse through
- move outward
- (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
- (transitive) To spread (something) over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
noun
- the property of being diffused or dispersed
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration
- the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another
- (physics, weather) Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
- The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
- (physics) The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.
- (marketing) The gradual spread and adoption of goods or services.
- (physics) The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.
- The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
- The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.
noun
- the property of being diffused or dispersed
- the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.
adj
verb
- distribute loosely
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
- cause to become widely known
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- separate (light) into spectral rays
adj
adj
verb
adv
adj
- (aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
- very narrow
- not dense
- (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
- of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
- lacking spirit or sincere effort
- relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
- lacking substance or significance
- lacking excess flesh
noun
verb
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
- To dilute.
- (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
- (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
- make thin or thinner
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- lose thickness; become thin or thinner
- take off weight
noun
- breaking up and scattering by dispersion
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
- A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
- A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
- (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.
adj
- of relatively large extent and density
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- slow and laborious because of weight
- prodigious
- full and loud and deep
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- darkened by clouds
- full of; bearing great weight
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- sharply inclined
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
- requiring or showing effort
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- of great intensity or power or force
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- (of a person) Heavyset: overweight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- (of weather) Hot and humid.
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- (of any physical thing) Having great weight.
- (oil industry) Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
- (of a topic) Serious, somber.
- (nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
- (of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
- (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
- (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
- (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- (of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- (slang) Armed.
- (finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Having the heaves.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- (of a rate of flow) High, great.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
noun
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
- (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
- (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
- (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
- (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.
- A prominent figure; a "major player".
adv
verb
noun
verb
- distribute loosely
- (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
- (transitive) To be dispersed upon.
- (slang, US) To leave.
- (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
- (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
- (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
- (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.
- cause to separate
- sow by scattering
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- strew or distribute over an area
adj
noun
verb
noun
- The state of being dispersed.
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- spreading widely or driving off
- (physics) The separation of waves of different frequency in space or time; the amount of such separation.
- A process of dispersing.
- (medicine) The removal of inflammation.
- The degree of scatter of data.
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
noun
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
- spreading widely or driving off
- the act of scattering
- the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- (elections) The total number of votes awarded to nonmajor or unlisted candidates.
- (physics) The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.
verb
noun
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- A scattering.
- the act of sprinkling or splashing water
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
- The action of the verb to sprinkle.
- A light shower of rain.
- A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
verb
noun
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
- (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
- the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
- The result of distributing; arrangement.
- (rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
- (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
- (mathematics, differential geometry) A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.
- An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
- The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
- (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
- (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
- (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
- An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
- The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
- (card games) The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
- (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
- (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
- Anything distributed; portion; share.
- (software) A set of bundled software components.
- (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
noun
- the property of being diffused or dispersed
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration
- the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another
- (physics, weather) Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
- The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
- (physics) The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.
- (marketing) The gradual spread and adoption of goods or services.
- (physics) The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.
- The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
- The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.
noun
- the property of being diffused or dispersed
- the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.
noun
- breaking up and scattering by dispersion
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
- A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
- A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
- (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.
noun
verb
- distribute loosely
- (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
- (transitive) To be dispersed upon.
- (slang, US) To leave.
- (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
- (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
- (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
- (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.
- cause to separate
- sow by scattering
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- strew or distribute over an area
verb
- distribute or disperse widely
- spread throughout a given area
- cause to become widely known
- be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses
- cause to be distributed
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- release a publication
- be mathematically distributive
- give to several people
- to arrange in a systematic order
- (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
- (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
- (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
- (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
- (transitive) To scatter or spread.
- (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
- (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
- (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
- (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
- (business) To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
- (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
verb
- distribute or disperse widely
- become distributed or widespread
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread across or over
- (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- (intransitive, transitive, debating slang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
- (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread
adj
noun
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- decorative cover for a bed
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The act of spreading.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
- (debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- A numerical difference.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- An expanse of land.
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
- (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
- (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
- (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- Something that has been spread.
- (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
verb
- be dispersed or disseminated
- pass away rapidly
- display in the air or cause to float
- move quickly or suddenly
- change quickly from one emotional state to another
- hit a fly
- travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- cause to fly or float
- travel in an airplane
- run away quickly
- decrease rapidly and disappear
- operate an airplane
- transport by aeroplane
- travel through the air; be airborne
- (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
- (intransitive, entomology, of a type of moth or butterfly) To be in the winged adult stage.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
- (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
- (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
- (intransitive) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
- (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
- (intransitive) To proceed with great success.
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
adj
noun
- fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
- an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
- (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
- two-winged insects characterized by active flight
- (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- An act of flying.
- (historical) A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
- (American football) Ellipsis of fly route.
- The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- The moving portion of an extendable ladder.
- Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”).
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
- (cotton manufacture) Waste cotton.
- (finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).
- One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
- (baseball) A fly ball.
- (rustic, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
- The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
- Ellipsis of flywheel.
- The free edge of a flag.
- (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
verb
- become distributed or widespread
- cause to become widely known
- transmit
- travel through the air
- cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering
- transmit or cause to broaden or spread
- transmit from one generation to the next
- multiply sexually or asexually
- (transitive) To generate; to produce.
- (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
- (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.
- (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
- (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.
- (intransitive) To be propagated; to travel.
- (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
- (transitive, computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
adj
verb
- distribute loosely
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
- cause to become widely known
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- separate (light) into spectral rays
noun
verb
- distribute loosely
- (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
- (transitive) To be dispersed upon.
- (slang, US) To leave.
- (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
- (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
- (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
- (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.
- cause to separate
- sow by scattering
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- strew or distribute over an area
adv
adj
- (aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
- very narrow
- not dense
- (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
- of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
- lacking spirit or sincere effort
- relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
- lacking substance or significance
- lacking excess flesh
noun
verb
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
- To dilute.
- (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
- (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
- make thin or thinner
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- lose thickness; become thin or thinner
- take off weight
verb
- distribute or disperse widely
- become distributed or widespread
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread across or over
- (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- (intransitive, transitive, debating slang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
- (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread
adj
noun
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- decorative cover for a bed
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The act of spreading.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
- (debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- A numerical difference.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- An expanse of land.
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
- (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
- (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
- (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- Something that has been spread.
- (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
adj
adj
- not widely distributed
- recurring only at long intervals
- marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind
- having low density
- (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside
- not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness
- (medicine, pathology) Small in number (but not unusual); infrequent; sparse.
- Very uncommon; scarce.
- (cooking) Particularly of meat, especially beefsteak: cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red.
- (of a gas) Thin; of low density.
- (UK, slang) Good; enjoyable.
noun
verb
adj
verb
- cause to become widely known
- spread or diffuse through
- move outward
- (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
- (transitive) To spread (something) over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
adj
verb
- distribute loosely
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
- cause to become widely known
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- separate (light) into spectral rays
adj
adj
verb
adj
- of relatively large extent and density
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- slow and laborious because of weight
- prodigious
- full and loud and deep
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- darkened by clouds
- full of; bearing great weight
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- sharply inclined
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
- requiring or showing effort
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- of great intensity or power or force
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- (of a person) Heavyset: overweight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- (of weather) Hot and humid.
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- (of any physical thing) Having great weight.
- (oil industry) Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
- (of a topic) Serious, somber.
- (nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
- (of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
- (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
- (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
- (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- (of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- (slang) Armed.
- (finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Having the heaves.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- (of a rate of flow) High, great.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
noun
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
- (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
- (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
- (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
- (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.
- A prominent figure; a "major player".