Verb

Infinitive to spread

Third person singular spreads

Simple past spread

Past participle spread

Present participle spreading

to spread (third-person singular simple present spreads, present participle spreading, simple past and past participle spread)

1. (transitive) To put one’s legs apart.
2. (transitive) To divide something in a homogeneous way.
3. (transitive) To scatter.
4. (transitive) To put butter or jam onto bread.
5. (transitive) To expand.

   Missionaries spread their religion's teachings.

6. (intransitive) To expand.

   The disease had spread into remote villages.

   • 2008, Wikipedia:Age of Enlightenment:

     The movement spread through much of Europe, including Russia and Scandinavia.

Synonyms

• disseminate
• circulate
• propagate
• put about

Derived terms

• spread betting

Spread may refer to:

• Statistical dispersion
• Spread (food), an edible paste put on other foods
• the score difference being wagered on in spread betting
• the measure of line inclination in rational trigonometry
• Temperature-Dewpoint spread, dew point depression
• Two-page spread a redundant term, also simply called "spread", referring to two adjacent, facing pages in a magazine or other publication with conjoined or connected content
• In finance, the difference in price between related securities,
  • Bid/offer spread, between the buying and selling price of a commodity or security
  • Spread trade, between two related securities or commodities
  • Option-adjusted spread, on mortgage backed securities where the borrower has the right to repay in full
  • Yield spread, difference in percentage rate of return of two instruments
  • Yield curve spread, on mortgage backed securities
  • Credit spread (bond), on bonds
• a term used for speed reading in policy debate.
• The laying of Tarot cards for divinatory uses
• Spread (film), a 2009 film

See also:

• Seafloor spreading, the process leading to continental drift
• Spread spectrum, communications signals over a range of frequencies
• Spread trader, holding positions in related securities, to trade the difference in price
• Spread offense, an offensive scheme in American Football designed to stretch the field horizontally
• Spread limit, a limit on a raise in poker
• Spread polynomials, a polynomial sequence arising in rational trigonometry
• $pread, a quarterly magazine by and for sex workers
• "Spread", a song by OutKast from their 2003 album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
• Spread Toolkit - an open source toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service