English words for 'Scattered or spread out.'
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adj
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (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 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
- distribute loosely
adj
adj
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- cause to become widely known
- 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
noun
verb
verb
- spread open or apart
- To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.
- To spread out awkwardly; to sprawl.
- move out of position
- turn outward
- To have, or lie in, an oblique or slanted position.
- (chiefly architecture) To construct a bevel or slope on (something, such as the frame or jamb of a door or window); to bevel, to slant, to slope.
- (pathology) To dislocate (a body part such as a shoulder bone).
- (transitive, obsolete except Ireland, Lincolnshire, Shropshire) Synonym of spay (“to destroy or remove the ovaries and/or uterus (of a female animal) to prevent pregnancy”).
- (computing theory) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
adj
noun
- an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
- A widening of a minor road where it forms a junction with a major road to ensure that the view of traffic on the major road by drivers on the minor road is not obstructed.
- An outward spread of an object such as a bowl or cup.
- The view to the left or right which a driver on a minor road has of traffic on the major road; also, a plan showing this.
- The amount of such a bevel, slant, or slope.
- A bevel, slant, or slope, especially of the frame or jamb of a door or window, by which an opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
adv
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
- spread throughout a given area
- distribute or disperse widely
- (transitive) To scatter or spread.
- 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 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
noun
verb
- spread across or over
- distribute or disperse widely
- strew or distribute over an area
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- become distributed or widespread
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- (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
noun
- A female guinea pig.
- A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
- (derogatory, slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.
- A female bear, she-bear.
- (military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
- A female pig.
- A sowbug.
- A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
- an adult female hog
verb
noun
- An ungainly sprawling posture.
- A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
- (wrestling, martial arts) A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.
- an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
- an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.
- (intransitive) To act in a disorderly and irregular way.
- To move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front.
- go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
- wander from a direct or straight course
noun
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- The state of being dispersed.
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- 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.
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.
verb
- strew or distribute over an area
- cause to separate
- sow by scattering
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- 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.
noun
verb
- strew or distribute over an area
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series
- turn outward
- extend in one or more directions
- move outward
- move away from each other
- (idiomatic, intransitive) Become further apart.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To place items further apart.
adj
adj
verb
adj
verb
noun
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
- the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions
- the act of scattering
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- spreading widely or driving off
- (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
noun
- (colloquial) A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.
- An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
- (engineering) A stud bolt.
- (jewelry) A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.
- (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
- (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
- A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
- A cleat on a shoe.
- (by extension, collective) A group of such animals, also of locomotives.
- (poker) A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.
- A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
- (LGBTQ, slang) A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
- A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
- Clipping of student.
- poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt
- an upright in house framing
- a man who is virile and sexually active
- ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
- adult male horse kept for breeding
adj
- (not comparable) Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
- (not comparable) Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
- (not comparable) Numbered with an odd number.
- Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- (not comparable) Used or employed for odd jobs.
- (not comparable) Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- (not comparable) Not regular or planned.
- Out of the way, secluded.
- Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
- (not comparable) Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
- (not comparable, in combination with a number) About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
- (sports) On the left.
- (mathematics, not comparable) Numerically indivisible by two.
- of the remaining member of a pair
- not divisible by two
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- not used up
- not easily explained
- an indefinite quantity more than that specified
noun
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
- (transitive) To form a disorderly sprawl; to spread out irregularly.
- (transitive) To be on both sides of something; to have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.
- (transitive) To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.
- (intransitive) To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
- (transitive) To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.
- (economics) To execute a commodities market spread.
- (military) To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range (the term "bracket" is often used instead).
- (poker) To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).
- range or extend over; occupy a certain area
- sit or stand astride of
- be noncommittal
adv
noun
- A posture in which one straddles something.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on the same security at the same strike price, giving a non-directional position sensitive to volatility.
- (poker) A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.
- (mining) A vertical mine-timber supporting a set.
- (military) A pair or salvo of successive artillery shots falling both in front of and behind a target.
- A part of a harness placed on the back of a beast of burden (such as a horse or donkey) to carry the weight of a load.
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options
- a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
- a noncommittal or equivocal position
verb
noun
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
verb
- To be diffused; to spread.
- To exhaust, to wear out.
- (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
- To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- (ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
- (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
- To consume, to use up (time).
- spend completely
- pay out
- use up a period of time in a specific way
noun
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- suffuse with color
- fill, soak, or imbue totally
- (transitive) To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
- (transitive) To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.
- In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
- come to understand
- insert the penis into the vagina or anus of
- make one's way deeper into or through
- pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
- (chess) To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- pass through
- penetrate mutually or be interlocked
- (transitive) To enter and spread through; to pervade.
- (transitive) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture
noun
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- speak in riddles
- explain a riddle
- pierce with many holes
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- (figuratively) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
noun
- a difficult problem
- a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.
- (intransitive) To act in a disorderly and irregular way.
- To move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front.
- go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
- wander from a direct or straight course
noun
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- The state of being dispersed.
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- 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.
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
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
- the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions
- the act of scattering
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- spreading widely or driving off
- (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
- strew or distribute over an area
- cause to separate
- sow by scattering
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- 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.
noun
verb
- spread open or apart
- To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.
- To spread out awkwardly; to sprawl.
- move out of position
- turn outward
- To have, or lie in, an oblique or slanted position.
- (chiefly architecture) To construct a bevel or slope on (something, such as the frame or jamb of a door or window); to bevel, to slant, to slope.
- (pathology) To dislocate (a body part such as a shoulder bone).
- (transitive, obsolete except Ireland, Lincolnshire, Shropshire) Synonym of spay (“to destroy or remove the ovaries and/or uterus (of a female animal) to prevent pregnancy”).
- (computing theory) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
adj
noun
- an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
- A widening of a minor road where it forms a junction with a major road to ensure that the view of traffic on the major road by drivers on the minor road is not obstructed.
- An outward spread of an object such as a bowl or cup.
- The view to the left or right which a driver on a minor road has of traffic on the major road; also, a plan showing this.
- The amount of such a bevel, slant, or slope.
- A bevel, slant, or slope, especially of the frame or jamb of a door or window, by which an opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
adv
verb
- spread throughout a given area
- distribute or disperse widely
- (transitive) To scatter or spread.
- 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 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
noun
verb
- spread across or over
- distribute or disperse widely
- strew or distribute over an area
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- become distributed or widespread
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- (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
noun
- A female guinea pig.
- A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
- (derogatory, slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.
- A female bear, she-bear.
- (military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
- A female pig.
- A sowbug.
- A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
- an adult female hog
verb
noun
- An ungainly sprawling posture.
- A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
- (wrestling, martial arts) A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.
- an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
- an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about
verb
- strew or distribute over an area
- cause to separate
- sow by scattering
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- 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.
noun
verb
- strew or distribute over an area
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series
- turn outward
- extend in one or more directions
- move outward
- move away from each other
- (idiomatic, intransitive) Become further apart.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To place items further apart.
adj
verb
noun
- (colloquial) A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.
- An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
- (engineering) A stud bolt.
- (jewelry) A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.
- (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
- (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
- A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
- A cleat on a shoe.
- (by extension, collective) A group of such animals, also of locomotives.
- (poker) A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.
- A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
- (LGBTQ, slang) A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
- A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
- Clipping of student.
- poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt
- an upright in house framing
- a man who is virile and sexually active
- ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
- adult male horse kept for breeding
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
- (transitive) To form a disorderly sprawl; to spread out irregularly.
- (transitive) To be on both sides of something; to have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.
- (transitive) To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.
- (intransitive) To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
- (transitive) To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.
- (economics) To execute a commodities market spread.
- (military) To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range (the term "bracket" is often used instead).
- (poker) To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).
- range or extend over; occupy a certain area
- sit or stand astride of
- be noncommittal
adv
noun
- A posture in which one straddles something.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on the same security at the same strike price, giving a non-directional position sensitive to volatility.
- (poker) A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.
- (mining) A vertical mine-timber supporting a set.
- (military) A pair or salvo of successive artillery shots falling both in front of and behind a target.
- A part of a harness placed on the back of a beast of burden (such as a horse or donkey) to carry the weight of a load.
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options
- a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
- a noncommittal or equivocal position
verb
noun
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
verb
- To be diffused; to spread.
- To exhaust, to wear out.
- (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
- To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- (ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
- (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
- To consume, to use up (time).
- spend completely
- pay out
- use up a period of time in a specific way
noun
adj
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (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 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
- distribute loosely
adj
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- cause to become widely known
- 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.
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- suffuse with color
- fill, soak, or imbue totally
- (transitive) To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
- (transitive) To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.
- In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
- come to understand
- insert the penis into the vagina or anus of
- make one's way deeper into or through
- pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
- (chess) To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- pass through
- penetrate mutually or be interlocked
- (transitive) To enter and spread through; to pervade.
- (transitive) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture
noun
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- speak in riddles
- explain a riddle
- pierce with many holes
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- (figuratively) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
noun
- a difficult problem
- a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
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
adj
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (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 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
- distribute loosely
adj
adj
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- cause to become widely known
- 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
noun
verb
verb
- spread across or over
- distribute or disperse widely
- strew or distribute over an area
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- become distributed or widespread
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- (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
verb
adj
verb
adj
- (not comparable) Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
- (not comparable) Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
- (not comparable) Numbered with an odd number.
- Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- (not comparable) Used or employed for odd jobs.
- (not comparable) Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- (not comparable) Not regular or planned.
- Out of the way, secluded.
- Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
- (not comparable) Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
- (not comparable, in combination with a number) About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
- (sports) On the left.
- (mathematics, not comparable) Numerically indivisible by two.
- of the remaining member of a pair
- not divisible by two
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- not used up
- not easily explained
- an indefinite quantity more than that specified
noun
verb
- spread open or apart
- To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.
- To spread out awkwardly; to sprawl.
- move out of position
- turn outward
- To have, or lie in, an oblique or slanted position.
- (chiefly architecture) To construct a bevel or slope on (something, such as the frame or jamb of a door or window); to bevel, to slant, to slope.
- (pathology) To dislocate (a body part such as a shoulder bone).
- (transitive, obsolete except Ireland, Lincolnshire, Shropshire) Synonym of spay (“to destroy or remove the ovaries and/or uterus (of a female animal) to prevent pregnancy”).
- (computing theory) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
adj
noun
- an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
- A widening of a minor road where it forms a junction with a major road to ensure that the view of traffic on the major road by drivers on the minor road is not obstructed.
- An outward spread of an object such as a bowl or cup.
- The view to the left or right which a driver on a minor road has of traffic on the major road; also, a plan showing this.
- The amount of such a bevel, slant, or slope.
- A bevel, slant, or slope, especially of the frame or jamb of a door or window, by which an opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.