Definition of Spread

Spread

An arbitrage transaction operated by buying and selling simultaneously in two separate markets, as Chicago and New York, when there is an abnormal difference in price between the two markets. It is called a back spreadwhen the difference in price is less than the normal one.

Surface in proportion to the depth of a cut stone.

of Spread

To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.

To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.

To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad.

To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.

To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.

To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.

To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.

To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.

To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.

To be made known more extensively, as news.

To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.

Extent; compass.

Expansion of parts.

A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.

A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.

A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.

An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.

imp. & p. p. of Spread, v.

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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Teresa

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
Ron Paul

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
Barack Obama

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
Mitt Romney