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spread
English
Etymology
From Middle English spreden, from Old English spr?dan (“to spread, expand”), from Proto-Germanic *spraidijan? (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian spreede (“to spread”), West Frisian spriede (“to spread”), North Frisian spriedjen (“to spread”), Dutch spreiden (“to spread”), Low German spreden (“to spread”), German spreiten (“to spread, spread out”), Norwegian spre, spreie (“to spread, disseminate”), Swedish sprida (“to spread”), Latin spern?, sparg?, Ancient Greek ?????? (speír?), Persian ?????? (sepordan, “to deposit”), English spurn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Verb
spread (third-person singular simple present spreads, present participle spreading, simple past and past participle spread)
- (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space. [from 13th c.]
- (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. [from 13th c.]
- (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area. [from 13th c.]
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated. [from 13th c.]
- (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present. [from 14th c.]
- (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter. [from 16th c.]
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- to spread a table
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
- Boiled the flesh, and spread the board.
- (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours. [from 20th c.]
- 1984, Martin Amis, Money:
- This often sounds like the rap of a demented DJ: the way she moves has got to be good news, can't get loose till I feel the juice— suck and spread, bitch, yeah bounce for me baby.
- 1991, Tori Amos, Me and a Gun:
- Yes I wore a slinky red thing. Does that mean I should spread for you, your friends, your father, Mr Ed?
- 2003, Outkast, "Spread" (from the album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below):
- I don't want to move too fast, but / Can't resist your sexy ass / Just spread, spread for me; / (I can't, I can't wait to get you home)
- 1984, Martin Amis, Money:
Synonyms
- disseminate
- circulate
- propagate
- diffuse
- put about
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
spread (countable and uncountable, plural spreads)
- The act of spreading.
- Something that has been spread.
- (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- An expanse of land.
- November 29, 1712, Andrew Freeport, a letter to The Spectator
- I have got a fine spread of improvable lands.
- November 29, 1712, Andrew Freeport, a letter to The Spectator
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
- 2005, Brokeback Mountain (film), 00:11:50:
- - Can’t wait till I get my own spread and won’t have to put up with Joe Aguirre’s crap no more.
- I’m savin’ for a place myself.
- - Can’t wait till I get my own spread and won’t have to put up with Joe Aguirre’s crap no more.
- 2005, Brokeback Mountain (film), 00:11:50:
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- 1975, Douglas Matthews, ?Suzanne Wymelenberg, ?Susan Cheever Cowley, Secondhand is Better (page 166)
- Linen shawls and spreads show up in secondhand clothing stores like those in the row on St. Marks Place in New York City.
- 1975, Douglas Matthews, ?Suzanne Wymelenberg, ?Susan Cheever Cowley, Secondhand is Better (page 166)
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- Synonym: swole
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- A numerical difference.
- (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
- (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
Synonyms
- straddle
Translations
Further reading
- spread in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- spread in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Padres, Persad, drapes, dreaps, padres, parsed, rasped, repads, spader, spared
Italian
Etymology
English spread
Noun
spread m (invariable)
- (trading, finance) The difference between returns or between quotations of multiple securities or of the same security over the course of a day.
- A contract awarding which offers the buyer the widest range of bargaining possibilities.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English spread.
Noun
spread m (plural spreads)
- (business, economics) spread (the difference between the wholesale and retail prices)
- (finance, economics) difference between the interest rate a bank charges to a client and the interest rate it pays
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measure
English
Etymology
From Middle English mesure, from Old French mesure, from Latin m?ns?ra (“a measuring, rule, something to measure by”), from m?nsus, past participle of m?t?r? (“to measure, mete”). Displaced native Middle English m?te, mete (“measure”) (from Old English met (“measure”), compare Old English mitta (“a measure”)), Middle English ameten, imeten (“to measure”) (from Old English ?metan, ?emetan (“to mete, measure”)), Middle English hof, hoof (“measure, reason”) (from Old Norse h?f (“measure, reason”)), Old English m?þ (“measure, degree”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m???/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m???/
- (regional US) IPA(key): /?me???/
- Rhymes: -???(?)
- Hyphenation: meas?ure; mea?sure
Noun
measure (plural measures)
- A prescribed quantity or extent.
- (obsolete) Moderation, temperance. [13th-19th c.]
- c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I:
- Mesure is medcynee · þou? þow moche ?erne.
- 1611, Bible, Authorized Version, Jer. XXX:
- I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.
- c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I:
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.) [from 14th c.]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, V:
- Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend.
- 2009, Mike Selvey, The Guardian, 25 Aug 2009:
- They have gloried to this day, the tedious interminable big-screen replays of that golden summer irritating beyond measure.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, V:
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity. [from 16th c.]
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]:
- It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]:
- (obsolete) Moderation, temperance. [13th-19th c.]
- The act or result of measuring.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance. [from 14th c.]
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion. [from 14th c.]
- Any of various standard units of capacity. [from 14th c.]
- A unit of measurement. [from 14th c.]
- 1993, Scientific American February 33.3:
- The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (a measure of molecular weight).
- 1993, Scientific American February 33.3:
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.) [from 14th c.]
- The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
- (now rare) The act or process of measuring. [from 14th c.]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements. [from 16th c.]
- (mathematics, now rare) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor. [from 16th c.]
- the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
- (geology) A bed or stratum. [from 17th c.]
- coal measures; lead measures
- (mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like. [from 20th c.]
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance. [from 14th c.]
- Metrical rhythm.
- (now archaic) A melody. [from 14th c.]
- (now archaic) A dance. [from 15th c.]
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot. [from 15th c.]
- a poem in iambic measure
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar. [from 17th c.]
- A course of action.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans. [from 17th c.]
- A piece of legislation. [from 18th c.]
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans. [from 17th c.]
Synonyms
- (musical designation): bar
- (unit of measurement): metric
Hyponyms
- (mathematics): positive measure, signed measure, complex measure, Borel measure, ?-finite measure, complete measure, Lebesgue measure
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
measure (third-person singular simple present measures, present participle measuring, simple past and past participle measured)
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds
- "And for a very sensible reason; there never was but one like her; or, that is, I have always thought so until to-day," replied the tar, glancing toward Natalie; "for my old eyes have seen pretty much everything they have got in this little world. Ha! I should like to see the inch of land or water that my foot hasn't measured."
- 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- To secure a contented spirit, you must measure your desires by your fortune and condition, not your fortunes by your desires
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
- With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
- That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- “measure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- measure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- measure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- measure at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Reaumes
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- what measurement is equal to 6 kilograms
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- what measures mass
- what measures earthquakes
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