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📖 Определения и значения для слова spread

📒 to affect or make something affect, be known by, or be used by more and more people

  • The news had spread and was causing great excitement.
  • + adv./prep. Use of computers spread rapidly during that period.
  • Within weeks, his confidence had spread throughout the team.

📒 to cover, or to make something cover, a larger and larger area

  • There is no evidence that the cancer has spread.
  • + adv./prep. The fire rapidly spread to adjoining buildings.
  • Water began to spread across the floor.

📒 to cause somebody/something to be in a number of different places

  • Seeds and pollen are spread by the wind.
  • We have 10 000 members spread all over the country.
  • Expertise in this field is very thinly spread across the country.

📒 to cover a large area

  • The valley spread out beneath us.

📒 to put a layer of a substance onto the surface of something; to be able to be put onto a surface

  • spread something They spread manure in both spring and autumn.
  • spread (A on/over B) to spread butter on pieces of toast
  • Birds spread the oil over their feathers to keep them warm and dry.

📒 to open something that has been folded so that it covers a larger area than before

  • spread something (out) The bird spread its wings.
  • a bird with its wings spread wide
  • spread something (out) on/over something They spread a cloth on the table.

📒 to arrange objects so that they cover a large area and can be seen easily

  • spread something out on/over something Papers had been spread out on the desk.
  • spread something out She spread out photographs of her grandchildren so I could see how they'd grown.
  • He was studying the various pages of notes spread over the quilt.

📒 to place the thumb and a finger of one hand on the screen of an electronic device such as a mobile phone or small computer and move them apart to make the image on the screen larger, as though it is closer

  • Re-size the text by using the pinch and spread gestures on the screen.

📒 to move your arms, legs, fingers, etc. far apart from each other

  • She spread her arms and the child ran towards her.

📒 to separate something into parts and divide them between different times or different people

  • spread something Why not pay monthly and spread the cost of your car insurance?
  • spread something (out) (over something) A series of five interviews will be spread over two days.
  • The course takes forty hours, spread over twenty weeks.

📒 to become known by more and more people very quickly

  • Rumours of his death spread like wildfire.
  • The news spread like wildfire.

📒 to consider a wide range of possibilities or cover a large area, especially to try to find somebody/something

  • They have spread their net far and wide in the search for a new team coach.

📒 to become more independent and confident and try new activities, etc.

  • Going to college gave her the chance to spread her wings.

📒 to tell people about something

  • I'm always trying to spread the word about healthy eating.

📒 to try to do so many different things at the same time that you do not do any of them well

  • With four markets to manage, there's a danger that's she's spreading herself too thin.
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