Crossword clues for spreading
spreading
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spread \Spread\ (spr[e^]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spread; p. pr. & vb. n. Spreading.] [OE. spreden, AS. spr[ae]dan; akin to D. spreiden, spreijen, LG. spreden, spreen, spreien, G. spreiten, Dan. sprede, Sw. sprida. Cf. Spray water flying in drops.]
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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.
He bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his tent.
--Gen. xxxiii. 19.Here the Rhone Hath spread himself a couch.
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To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or greater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.
Rose, as in a dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit.
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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 accompanied by abroad.
They, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
--Matt. ix. 31. 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.
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To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.
Boiled the flesh, and spread the board.
--Tennyson.To spread cloth, to unfurl sail. [Obs.]
--Evelyn.Syn: To diffuse; propagate; disperse; publish; distribute; scatter; circulate; disseminate; dispense.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is spread. vb. (present participle of spread English)
WordNet
n. process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space [syn: spread]
the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate [syn: dissemination, airing, public exposure]
act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time [syn: spread]
adj. spreading over a wide area; "under the spreading chestnut tree"; "the spreading circle of lamplight"; "wide-spreading branches" [syn: wide-spreading]
spreading by diffusion [syn: diffusing(a), diffusive, dispersive, disseminative, disseminating, scattering]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "spreading".
The purpose of those killings could only have been to dupe whoever was on the receiving end of those subconscious television messages into believing that this Abraxas character is some sort of Lone Ranger, spreading good wherever he goes.
When the tentacles do not begin moving for a much longer time, namely, from half an hour to three or four hours, the particles have been slowly brought into contact with the glands, either by the secretion being absorbed by the particles or by its gradual spreading over them, together with its consequent quicker evaporation.
Lowbacca warned that the corvettes coming from Myrkr were accelerating and spreading out, and the half-dozen vessels they had been following were turning toward the cruiser.
Their footsteps rang hollowly behind her under the spreading branches of the tall ahuehuete trees.
Spreading his toes out for balance, Alec blinked up at her and gave a soft hoot.
Hair that was turned up at the ends of it into little curls by the wind fell all about him--over his eyes, spreading into an American sharp-pointed beard under his chin, making his legs like the legs of an Eskimo, waving in frantic agitation all round his stump of a tail.
But she read him the rules from the back pages of the almanac, then set up the board under the spreading branches of a mighty camel-thorn tree.
Rice and wheat were feeble and undependable crops here, but the amaranth is so hardy that we have to use herbicides around the fields to keep it from spreading.
The Armorer bit his lip, shifting his feet as he noticed that the pool of blood from the three corpses was spreading near him.
In the spring of 1930 three young lieutenants, Ludin, Scheringer and Wendt, of the garrison at Ulm were arrested for spreading Nazi doctrines in the Army and for trying to induce their fellow officers to agree that in the case of an armed Nazi revolt they would not fire on the rebels.
When sound is not being produced, the glottis is open and has a triangular form, due to the spreading apart of the arytenoid cartilages and the attached cords.
Socialism is spreading anti-religious and atheistic doctrines, loosing men and women from their moral restraints.
Bill Balden, circling low in his TBF, could see the brown-clad body a few feet below the surface with a pool of blood spreading above it.
But, lately, a lot of rumors have been spreading, especially an ancient beholder myth about the coming of the Cloakmaster.
Baronius, spreading their sticky web, trying to catch whatever they can of the treasures from the Spanish Rooms and the Bibliotheca Palatina.