'To spread again.'的English词汇
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- The act of spreading.
- Something that has been spread.
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- 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.
- (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.
- 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
verb
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- become distributed or widespread
- (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 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
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- distribute or disperse widely
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread across or over
adj
adj
- tending to spread quickly
- characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
- having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
- Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
- (finance) Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
- (especially programming, of a method or process) Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
- (US, LGBTQ, Black lesbian slang) Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.
- (pathology, of a tumour or disease) That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
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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
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- spread gradually
- prepare in a percolator
- pass through
- cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent
- permeate or penetrate gradually
- gain or regain energy
- (intransitive, figuratively) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.
- (intransitive) (of coffee) to be prepared by percolation; (of a coffee pot) to brew coffee in this way.
- (intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance.
- (transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator.
- (transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
noun
noun
- spreading widely or driving off
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- (physics) The separation of waves of different frequency in space or time; the amount of such separation.
- A process of dispersing.
- (medicine) The removal of inflammation.
- The degree of scatter of data.
- The state of being dispersed.
noun
- spreading widely or driving off
- 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
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
- (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.
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verb
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- 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
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.
verb
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- (intransitive, country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- (UK, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- (ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- (transitive) To arrange (type).
- (ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- (transitive) To adjust.
- (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
- (intransitive, now dialectal) To sit or lie (easily etc.) on the stomach; to be digested in a certain manner.
- (intransitive) To solidify.
- (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- (transitive) To determine or settle.
- (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
- (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- (Scotland) To suit; to become.
- urge to attack someone
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- equip with sails or masts
- set in type
- arrange attractively
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- become gelatinous
- disappear beyond the horizon
- set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly
- give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor
- insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- produce fruit
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- put into a position that will restore a normal state
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- locate
- adapt for performance in a different way
- decide upon or fix definitely
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- fix in a border
- apply or start
- estimate
adj
- Intent, determined (to do something).
- Rigid, solidified.
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in position.
- Ready, prepared.
- (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- Prearranged.
- determined or decided upon as by an authority
- situated in a particular spot or position
- set down according to a plan
- fixed and unmoving
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
- (usually followed by ‘to’ or ‘for’) on the point of or strongly disposed
- being below the horizon
noun
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of people, usually meeting socially or connected through some shared interest, activity, attribute, etc.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- An object made up of several parts.
- A tool for dressing forged iron.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- (UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”).
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”).
- (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”).
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- several exercises intended to be done in series
- (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
- (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- the act of putting something in position
- the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon
- a unit of play in tennis or squash
- any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals
- representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production
verb
verb
- To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.
- To spread out awkwardly; to sprawl.
- 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.
- move out of position
- spread open or apart
- turn outward
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noun
- 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.
- an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
verb
- spread throughout a given area
- cause to become widely known
- be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses
- cause to be distributed
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- release a publication
- be mathematically distributive
- give to several people
- distribute or disperse widely
- to arrange in a systematic order
- (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
- (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
- (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
- (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
- (transitive) To scatter or spread.
- (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
- (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
- (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
- (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
- (business) To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
- (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
adj
- easily spread
- of or relating to infection
- caused by infection or capable of causing infection
- (pathology, of an illness) Caused by an agent that enters the host's body (such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion); often, also, transmitted among hosts via any of various routes (for example, contact, droplet-borne, airborne, waterborne, foodborne, fomite-borne, or bloodborne).
- (informal) Memorable and invoking excitement or interest.
- (pathology, typically of a person) Able to infect others; capable of transmitting pathogens.
- (of feelings and behaviour) Spreading quickly from one person to another.
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verb
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- grow and spread fast
- pick or gather mushrooms
- (intransitive) To form the shape of a mushroom.
- (intransitive) To gather mushrooms.
- (intransitive, figurative) To grow quickly to a large size or rapidly increase in scope or scale.
- (ballistics, of a bullet) To form the shape of a mushroom when striking a soft target.
noun
- mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
- a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
- fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
- common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
- any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
- A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
- Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.
- Ellipsis of mushroom cloud.
- (figurative) Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly.
- Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
- Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.
- (architecture) A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.
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verb
- transmit or cause to broaden or spread
- become distributed or widespread
- cause to become widely known
- transmit
- travel through the air
- cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering
- transmit from one generation to the next
- multiply sexually or asexually
- (transitive) To generate; to produce.
- (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
- (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.
- (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
- (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.
- (intransitive) To be propagated; to travel.
- (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
- (transitive, computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
verb
- To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
- To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
- To derive or deduce (a general concept or principle) from particular facts.
- To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
- draw from specific cases for more general cases
- cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
- become systemic and spread throughout the body
- speak or write in generalities
adj
verb
- cause to spread in another part of the world
- (transitive) To cause to spread in another part of the world.
- sell or transfer abroad
- transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs
- (transitive) To put up (a child) for international adoption.
- (transitive) To sell (goods) to a foreign country.
- (transitive, computing) To send (data) from one program to another.
- (transitive) To carry away.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- to spread or disseminate
- to move from person to person, as at a party
- (intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit
- (mathematics) Of decimals: to repeat.
- (transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit
- to become widely known
- cause to become widely known
- cause to be distributed
- cause to move in a circuit or system
- move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point
- become widely known and passed on
- move around freely from person to person or from place to place
verb
- To grow, to sprout.
- To come upon and flush out.
- (figurative) To arise, to come into existence.
- (ambitransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
- (transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain.
- (sometimes figurative) To enliven.
- (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
- (intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere.
- (UK dialectal) To mature.
- (transitive) To leap over.
- (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
- (of animals) To find or get enough food during springtime.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
- (ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- (Australia, slang) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To appear.
- (intransitive, UK, dialectal, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- (intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain.
- To tell, to share.
- (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
- (figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.
- (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
- (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
- develop into a distinctive entity
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- develop suddenly
- produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly
- spring back; spring away from an impact
noun
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- (figurative) A race, a lineage.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- (figurative) A youth.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- (countable, fashion) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An elastic mechanical part or device in any shape (e.g., flat, curved, coiled), made of flexible material (usually spring steel) that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
- (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- (figurative, politics) a period of political liberalization and democratization
- (oceanography) Ellipsis of spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- a point at which water issues forth
- a natural flow of ground water
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
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noun
verb
verb
- To come or pass over; to spread over.
- (transitive) To recover from (a difficulty), to get over.
- (intransitive) To prevail.
- (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
- (transitive) To win against or prevail over in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
- win a victory over
- overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
- overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
- get on top of; deal with successfully
adj
noun
verb
- spread throughout the body
- (chiefly US, figurative) Of a thing, often one which is undesirable: to disseminate or spread, especially in a destructive manner.
- (medicine, specifically oncology) Of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis (“a secondary focus away from the primary site”) in (a body organ).
- (chiefly US, figurative) To disseminate or spread (something, often an undesirable thing), especially in a destructive manner.
- (medicine, specifically oncology) Of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to undergo metastasis (“spreading from a primary site to one or more other sites in the body”).
verb
- grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
- show submission or fear
- to go stealthily or furtively
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
noun
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- (informal, derogatory) Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
- (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- (informal, derogatory, especially) A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
- (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- (publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
verb
- be dispersed or disseminated
- pass away rapidly
- display in the air or cause to float
- move quickly or suddenly
- change quickly from one emotional state to another
- hit a fly
- travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- cause to fly or float
- travel in an airplane
- run away quickly
- decrease rapidly and disappear
- operate an airplane
- transport by aeroplane
- travel through the air; be airborne
- (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
- (intransitive, entomology, of a type of moth or butterfly) To be in the winged adult stage.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
- (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
- (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
- (intransitive) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
- (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
- (intransitive) To proceed with great success.
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
adj
noun
- fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
- an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
- (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
- two-winged insects characterized by active flight
- (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- An act of flying.
- (historical) A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
- (American football) Ellipsis of fly route.
- The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- The moving portion of an extendable ladder.
- Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”).
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
- (cotton manufacture) Waste cotton.
- (finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).
- One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
- (baseball) A fly ball.
- (rustic, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
- The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
- Ellipsis of flywheel.
- The free edge of a flag.
- (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
noun
- The act of spreading.
- Something that has been spread.
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- 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.
- (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.
- 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
verb
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- become distributed or widespread
- (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 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
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- distribute or disperse widely
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread across or over
adj
noun
- spreading widely or driving off
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- (physics) The separation of waves of different frequency in space or time; the amount of such separation.
- A process of dispersing.
- (medicine) The removal of inflammation.
- The degree of scatter of data.
- The state of being dispersed.
noun
- spreading widely or driving off
- 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
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
- (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
verb
verb
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
noun
verb
verb
- spread gradually
- prepare in a percolator
- pass through
- cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent
- permeate or penetrate gradually
- gain or regain energy
- (intransitive, figuratively) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.
- (intransitive) (of coffee) to be prepared by percolation; (of a coffee pot) to brew coffee in this way.
- (intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance.
- (transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator.
- (transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
noun
verb
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
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.
verb
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- (intransitive, country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- (UK, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- (ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- (transitive) To arrange (type).
- (ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- (transitive) To adjust.
- (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
- (intransitive, now dialectal) To sit or lie (easily etc.) on the stomach; to be digested in a certain manner.
- (intransitive) To solidify.
- (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- (transitive) To determine or settle.
- (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
- (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- (Scotland) To suit; to become.
- urge to attack someone
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- equip with sails or masts
- set in type
- arrange attractively
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- become gelatinous
- disappear beyond the horizon
- set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly
- give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor
- insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- produce fruit
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- put into a position that will restore a normal state
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- locate
- adapt for performance in a different way
- decide upon or fix definitely
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- fix in a border
- apply or start
- estimate
adj
- Intent, determined (to do something).
- Rigid, solidified.
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in position.
- Ready, prepared.
- (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- Prearranged.
- determined or decided upon as by an authority
- situated in a particular spot or position
- set down according to a plan
- fixed and unmoving
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
- (usually followed by ‘to’ or ‘for’) on the point of or strongly disposed
- being below the horizon
noun
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of people, usually meeting socially or connected through some shared interest, activity, attribute, etc.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- An object made up of several parts.
- A tool for dressing forged iron.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- (UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”).
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”).
- (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”).
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- several exercises intended to be done in series
- (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
- (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- the act of putting something in position
- the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon
- a unit of play in tennis or squash
- any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals
- representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production
noun
- The act of spreading.
- Something that has been spread.
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- 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.
- (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.
- 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
verb
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- become distributed or widespread
- (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 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
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- distribute or disperse widely
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread across or over
adj
verb
verb
- To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.
- To spread out awkwardly; to sprawl.
- 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.
- move out of position
- spread open or apart
- turn outward
adj
adv
noun
- 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.
- an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
verb
- spread throughout a given area
- cause to become widely known
- be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses
- cause to be distributed
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- release a publication
- be mathematically distributive
- give to several people
- distribute or disperse widely
- to arrange in a systematic order
- (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
- (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
- (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
- (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
- (transitive) To scatter or spread.
- (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
- (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
- (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
- (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
- (business) To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
- (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
verb
- grow and spread fast
- pick or gather mushrooms
- (intransitive) To form the shape of a mushroom.
- (intransitive) To gather mushrooms.
- (intransitive, figurative) To grow quickly to a large size or rapidly increase in scope or scale.
- (ballistics, of a bullet) To form the shape of a mushroom when striking a soft target.
noun
- mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
- a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
- fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
- common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
- any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
- A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
- Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.
- Ellipsis of mushroom cloud.
- (figurative) Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly.
- Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
- Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.
- (architecture) A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.
adj
verb
- transmit or cause to broaden or spread
- become distributed or widespread
- cause to become widely known
- transmit
- travel through the air
- cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering
- transmit from one generation to the next
- multiply sexually or asexually
- (transitive) To generate; to produce.
- (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
- (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.
- (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
- (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.
- (intransitive) To be propagated; to travel.
- (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
- (transitive, computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
verb
- To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
- To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
- To derive or deduce (a general concept or principle) from particular facts.
- To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
- draw from specific cases for more general cases
- cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
- become systemic and spread throughout the body
- speak or write in generalities
verb
- cause to spread in another part of the world
- (transitive) To cause to spread in another part of the world.
- sell or transfer abroad
- transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs
- (transitive) To put up (a child) for international adoption.
- (transitive) To sell (goods) to a foreign country.
- (transitive, computing) To send (data) from one program to another.
- (transitive) To carry away.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- to spread or disseminate
- to move from person to person, as at a party
- (intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit
- (mathematics) Of decimals: to repeat.
- (transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit
- to become widely known
- cause to become widely known
- cause to be distributed
- cause to move in a circuit or system
- move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point
- become widely known and passed on
- move around freely from person to person or from place to place
verb
- To grow, to sprout.
- To come upon and flush out.
- (figurative) To arise, to come into existence.
- (ambitransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
- (transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain.
- (sometimes figurative) To enliven.
- (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
- (intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere.
- (UK dialectal) To mature.
- (transitive) To leap over.
- (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
- (of animals) To find or get enough food during springtime.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
- (ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- (Australia, slang) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To appear.
- (intransitive, UK, dialectal, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- (intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain.
- To tell, to share.
- (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
- (figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.
- (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
- (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
- develop into a distinctive entity
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- develop suddenly
- produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly
- spring back; spring away from an impact
noun
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- (figurative) A race, a lineage.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- (figurative) A youth.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- (countable, fashion) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An elastic mechanical part or device in any shape (e.g., flat, curved, coiled), made of flexible material (usually spring steel) that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
- (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- (figurative, politics) a period of political liberalization and democratization
- (oceanography) Ellipsis of spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- a point at which water issues forth
- a natural flow of ground water
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
verb
noun
verb
verb
- To come or pass over; to spread over.
- (transitive) To recover from (a difficulty), to get over.
- (intransitive) To prevail.
- (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
- (transitive) To win against or prevail over in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
- win a victory over
- overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
- overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
- get on top of; deal with successfully
adj
noun
verb
- spread throughout the body
- (chiefly US, figurative) Of a thing, often one which is undesirable: to disseminate or spread, especially in a destructive manner.
- (medicine, specifically oncology) Of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis (“a secondary focus away from the primary site”) in (a body organ).
- (chiefly US, figurative) To disseminate or spread (something, often an undesirable thing), especially in a destructive manner.
- (medicine, specifically oncology) Of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to undergo metastasis (“spreading from a primary site to one or more other sites in the body”).
verb
- grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
- show submission or fear
- to go stealthily or furtively
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
noun
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- (informal, derogatory) Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
- (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- (informal, derogatory, especially) A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
- (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- (publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
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).
adj
verb
adj
- tending to spread quickly
- characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
- having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
- Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
- (finance) Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
- (especially programming, of a method or process) Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
- (US, LGBTQ, Black lesbian slang) Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.
- (pathology, of a tumour or disease) That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
noun
adj
- easily spread
- of or relating to infection
- caused by infection or capable of causing infection
- (pathology, of an illness) Caused by an agent that enters the host's body (such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion); often, also, transmitted among hosts via any of various routes (for example, contact, droplet-borne, airborne, waterborne, foodborne, fomite-borne, or bloodborne).
- (informal) Memorable and invoking excitement or interest.
- (pathology, typically of a person) Able to infect others; capable of transmitting pathogens.
- (of feelings and behaviour) Spreading quickly from one person to another.
adj
noun
- The act of spreading.
- Something that has been spread.
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- 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.
- (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.
- 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
verb
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- become distributed or widespread
- (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 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
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- distribute or disperse widely
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread across or over