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noun
- equality of distribution
- equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
- (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
- a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a weight that balances another weight
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
- a state of equilibrium
- (uncountable) The overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately "weighs" more than others.
- (watchmaking) A device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.
- (uncountable) Mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.
- (accounting) A list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.
- (uncountable) A state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.
- (uncountable) Apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.).
- (literally or figuratively) Something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium; counterweight.
- A pair of scales.
- (law, business, statistics) The remainder.
- (accounting) The result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.
- (uncountable) Awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity.
verb
- compute credits and debits of an account
- hold or carry in equilibrium
- be in equilibrium
- bring into balance or equilibrium
- (transitive) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
- (transitive) To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling.
- (transitive, figurative) To make (concepts) agree.
- (transitive) To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.
- (intransitive) To be in equilibrium.
- (transitive, nautical) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.
- (intransitive) To have matching credits and debits.
- (transitive) To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.
- (transitive, dance) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.
noun
verb
noun
- equality of distribution
- a stable situation in which forces cancel one another
- a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates
- a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head
- (chemistry) The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
- Mental balance.
- The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
- (physics) The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.
verb
- distribute loosely
- 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
- (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.
adj
verb
- distribute loosely
- mark with a dot
- scatter or intersperse like dots or studs
- make a dot or dots
- (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
- (colloquial) To punch (a person).
- To mark by means of dots or small spots.
- To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
- (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
noun
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- a very small circular shape
- (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
- (MLE, slang, rare) confinement facility
- A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
- (MLE) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
- One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
- (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
- in musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%.
- A small, round spot.
- (computing) Clipping of dotfile
- (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
- (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
- Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
prep
verb
- distribute loosely
- remove the dust from
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
noun
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
verb
- distribute loosely
- 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
- (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.
noun
verb
- distribute loosely
- cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
- scatter with liquid; wet lightly
- rain gently
- (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
- (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
- (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
- (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
- (intransitive) To rain very lightly outside.
noun
verb
- To divide and distribute.
- To tell to another.
- (networking) To allow public or private sharing of resources in a network, or content on social media.
- To have or use in common.
- To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
- communicate
- use jointly or in common
- have in common
- give out as one's portion or share
- have, give, or receive a share of
noun
- A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
- (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
- (social media) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
- (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
- (anatomy) The sharebone or pubis.
- (agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil
- any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate
adj
- Relating to distribution.
- Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
- serving to distribute or allot or disperse
- (logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
- (mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
- (grammar) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
noun
noun
- The result of distributing; arrangement.
- the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
- (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.
- (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 spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
adj
- distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose
- having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions
- separated into parts or pieces
- having conflicting opinions, interests or emotions
- (US) (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median
- separated or split into pieces
- disunited
verb
verb
- (transitive) To apportion out, distribute.
- (transitive, medicine) To give (a drug, to a patient), be it orally or by any other means.
- (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
- (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
- To give, as an oath.
- (intransitive) To minister (to).
- perform (a church sacrament) ritually
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- give or apply (medications)
- direct the taking of
- work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of
verb
- to distribute systematically or strategically
- (transitive, ergative) To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
- (transitive, intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
- (computing) To install, test and implement a computer system or application.
noun
verb
- to distribute systematically or strategically
- straighten by unrolling
- flatten or spread with a roller
- officially distribute a new product or service to the public
- (intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finish strongly.
- (intransitive, informal) To leave a place at a leisurely pace.
- (transitive, intransitive) To deploy or release (a new film or software, etc.); to launch (a product or service), especially in a gradual fashion across multiple regions.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see roll, out.
noun
noun
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
- a share set aside for a specific purpose
- (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
- (embryology) Restriction of an embryonic cell and its clonal descendants to a particular cell type or body region.
- The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
- That which is allocated; allowance, entitlement.
noun
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
- a share set aside for a specific purpose
- The act of allotting.
- (law) The allowance of a specific amount of money or other credit of a particular thing to a particular person.
- Something allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed
- (British) A plot of land rented from the council for growing fruit and vegetables.
noun
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
- (US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.
- The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
- (US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
noun
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
- a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
- An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
- The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
- A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
noun
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
- (more specifically) The division of land into parcels.
- The manner in which something is structured or packaged for sale, including the use of a specific size, material, color, font, etc.
- A system for dividing something up.
- (nautical) One of the long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used also in mousing on the stays, etc.
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
- be mathematically distributive
- distribute or disperse widely
- cause to be distributed
- (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
- (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
- (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.
- cause to become widely known
- be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- release a publication
- spread throughout a given area
- give to several people
- to arrange in a systematic order
noun
verb
noun
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- 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
- distribute or disperse widely
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- become distributed or widespread
- 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
- Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
- A boundary; a landmark.
- Alternative form of dhole (“Asian wild dog”).
- (British, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
- (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
- Money or other goods given as charity.
- (law, Scotland) Dolus.
- a share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given
- money received from the state
verb
noun
- a proportional share assigned to each participant
- a limitation on imports
- a prescribed number
- A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
- (business, economics) A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.
- A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.
adj
- (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
- (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
- having an oblique or slanting direction or position
adv
noun
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
- (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- (chiefly Cornwall) A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
- (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
verb
- (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
- (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- turn or place at an angle
noun
- the act of apportioning or distributing something
- an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each
- the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement)
- the act of distributing playing cards
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- a plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
- wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a particular instance of buying or selling
- (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
- (in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
- An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
- (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
- (card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
- (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
- A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
- (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
- (slang, of a person) A personality trait, especially a negative one, and the underlying cause of it.
verb
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- behave in a certain way towards others
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- give (a specific card) to a player
- sell (especially of illegal material)
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
- distribute cards to the players in a game
- give out as one's portion or share
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- take action with respect to (someone or something)
- direct the course of; manage or control
- (ambitransitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
- (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
- (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
- (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
- (intransitive, with “with”) To handle, to manage, to cope.
- (transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
- (ambitransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- (baseball) To pitch.
- (transitive) : To take action with regard to someone or something.
- (intransitive) To be concerned with.
adj
adj
- Seemingly randomly distributed.
- (meteorology, of clouds) Covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
- (meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.
- Dispersed, spread apart into disunited units.
- occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space
- lacking orderly continuity
verb
noun
noun
noun
- equality of distribution
- equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
- (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
- a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a weight that balances another weight
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
- a state of equilibrium
- (uncountable) The overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately "weighs" more than others.
- (watchmaking) A device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.
- (uncountable) Mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.
- (accounting) A list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.
- (uncountable) A state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.
- (uncountable) Apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.).
- (literally or figuratively) Something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium; counterweight.
- A pair of scales.
- (law, business, statistics) The remainder.
- (accounting) The result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.
- (uncountable) Awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity.
verb
- compute credits and debits of an account
- hold or carry in equilibrium
- be in equilibrium
- bring into balance or equilibrium
- (transitive) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
- (transitive) To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling.
- (transitive, figurative) To make (concepts) agree.
- (transitive) To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.
- (intransitive) To be in equilibrium.
- (transitive, nautical) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.
- (intransitive) To have matching credits and debits.
- (transitive) To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.
- (transitive, dance) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.
noun
verb
noun
- equality of distribution
- a stable situation in which forces cancel one another
- a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates
- a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head
- (chemistry) The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
- Mental balance.
- The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
- (physics) The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.
noun
- The result of distributing; arrangement.
- the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
- (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.
- (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 spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
noun
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
- a share set aside for a specific purpose
- (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
- (embryology) Restriction of an embryonic cell and its clonal descendants to a particular cell type or body region.
- The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
- That which is allocated; allowance, entitlement.
noun
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
- a share set aside for a specific purpose
- The act of allotting.
- (law) The allowance of a specific amount of money or other credit of a particular thing to a particular person.
- Something allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed
- (British) A plot of land rented from the council for growing fruit and vegetables.
noun
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
- (US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.
- The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
- (US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
noun
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
- a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
- An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
- The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
- A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
noun
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
- (more specifically) The division of land into parcels.
- The manner in which something is structured or packaged for sale, including the use of a specific size, material, color, font, etc.
- A system for dividing something up.
- (nautical) One of the long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used also in mousing on the stays, etc.
verb
noun
noun
verb
verb
- distribute loosely
- 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
- (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.
noun
noun
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- 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
- distribute or disperse widely
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- become distributed or widespread
- 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
- Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
- A boundary; a landmark.
- Alternative form of dhole (“Asian wild dog”).
- (British, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
- (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
- Money or other goods given as charity.
- (law, Scotland) Dolus.
- a share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given
- money received from the state
verb
noun
- a proportional share assigned to each participant
- a limitation on imports
- a prescribed number
- A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
- (business, economics) A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.
- A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.
noun
- the act of apportioning or distributing something
- an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each
- the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement)
- the act of distributing playing cards
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- a plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
- wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a particular instance of buying or selling
- (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
- (in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
- An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
- (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
- (card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
- (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
- A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
- (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
- (slang, of a person) A personality trait, especially a negative one, and the underlying cause of it.
verb
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- behave in a certain way towards others
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- give (a specific card) to a player
- sell (especially of illegal material)
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
- distribute cards to the players in a game
- give out as one's portion or share
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- take action with respect to (someone or something)
- direct the course of; manage or control
- (ambitransitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
- (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
- (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
- (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
- (intransitive, with “with”) To handle, to manage, to cope.
- (transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
- (ambitransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- (baseball) To pitch.
- (transitive) : To take action with regard to someone or something.
- (intransitive) To be concerned with.
adj
noun
noun
verb
- distribute loosely
- 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
- (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.
adj
verb
- distribute loosely
- mark with a dot
- scatter or intersperse like dots or studs
- make a dot or dots
- (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
- (colloquial) To punch (a person).
- To mark by means of dots or small spots.
- To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
- (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
noun
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- a very small circular shape
- (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
- (MLE, slang, rare) confinement facility
- A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
- (MLE) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
- One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
- (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
- in musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%.
- A small, round spot.
- (computing) Clipping of dotfile
- (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
- (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
- Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
prep
verb
- distribute loosely
- remove the dust from
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
noun
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
verb
- distribute loosely
- 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
- (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.
noun
verb
- distribute loosely
- cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
- scatter with liquid; wet lightly
- rain gently
- (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
- (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
- (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
- (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
- (intransitive) To rain very lightly outside.
noun
verb
- To divide and distribute.
- To tell to another.
- (networking) To allow public or private sharing of resources in a network, or content on social media.
- To have or use in common.
- To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
- communicate
- use jointly or in common
- have in common
- give out as one's portion or share
- have, give, or receive a share of
noun
- A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
- (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
- (social media) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
- (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
- (anatomy) The sharebone or pubis.
- (agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil
- any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate
verb
- (transitive) To apportion out, distribute.
- (transitive, medicine) To give (a drug, to a patient), be it orally or by any other means.
- (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
- (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
- To give, as an oath.
- (intransitive) To minister (to).
- perform (a church sacrament) ritually
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- give or apply (medications)
- direct the taking of
- work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of
verb
- to distribute systematically or strategically
- (transitive, ergative) To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
- (transitive, intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
- (computing) To install, test and implement a computer system or application.
noun
verb
- to distribute systematically or strategically
- straighten by unrolling
- flatten or spread with a roller
- officially distribute a new product or service to the public
- (intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finish strongly.
- (intransitive, informal) To leave a place at a leisurely pace.
- (transitive, intransitive) To deploy or release (a new film or software, etc.); to launch (a product or service), especially in a gradual fashion across multiple regions.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see roll, out.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
- be mathematically distributive
- distribute or disperse widely
- cause to be distributed
- (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
- (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
- (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.
- cause to become widely known
- be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- release a publication
- spread throughout a given area
- give to several people
- to arrange in a systematic order
noun
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- 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
- distribute or disperse widely
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- become distributed or widespread
- 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
adj
- Relating to distribution.
- Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
- serving to distribute or allot or disperse
- (logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
- (mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
- (grammar) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
noun
adj
- distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose
- having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions
- separated into parts or pieces
- having conflicting opinions, interests or emotions
- (US) (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median
- separated or split into pieces
- disunited
verb
adj
- (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
- (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
- having an oblique or slanting direction or position
adv
noun
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
- (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- (chiefly Cornwall) A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
- (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
verb
- (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
- (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- turn or place at an angle
adj
- Seemingly randomly distributed.
- (meteorology, of clouds) Covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
- (meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.
- Dispersed, spread apart into disunited units.
- occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space
- lacking orderly continuity
verb
noun
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- 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
- distribute or disperse widely
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- become distributed or widespread
- 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