What's the difference between sped and spend?

Sped


Definition:

  • () imp. & p. p. of Speed.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Speed

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Freedom Act ultimately sped to passage in the House on May 22 by a bipartisan 303-121 vote .
  • (2) Algarve map Sophie Cooke The drive west from Faro airport was easy and we sped along the fast toll-road.
  • (3) But as she sped along the pavement in Westminster yesterday, captured on film by cameramen and baffled tourists alike, repeating the words "we won!
  • (4) In addition, he teamed up with Mick Jagger to record the fundraising single Dancing in the Street , which sped to No 1.
  • (5) The demons that came with density were more obvious back then: the cholera epidemic; the fact that just as cities sped the flow of ideas, so they sped the flow of disease, too; the crime that was so associated with Victorian London .
  • (6) Two militia volunteers broke the windscreen of a nearby Toyota and sped off in it.
  • (7) The car increasingly threatened violence, not just for what its driver could do when he arrived at Laquan’s final destination, but as it jeopardized others with impunity as it drove on the wrong side of the road, sped past residences, and blew through a stop sign.
  • (8) He had captured the often frenetic atmosphere of Marrakech via "six cameras mounted on a magic wand that were shooting simultaneously as I sped along the crowded streets on the back of a motorbike".
  • (9) Some kept their eyes to the ground as they left the huge hangars and sped away to language lessons, waving their arms to fend off reporters.
  • (10) It’s possible that something could be sped up,” the official said of the potential for imposing new unilateral sanctions on North Korea.
  • (11) Marking Google's 15th birthday, Hummingbird is the biggest change to the inner workings of the world's most popular search engine since Google's "Caffeine" update in 2010 , which sped up Google's indexing of sites and delivery of search results.
  • (12) Substitution of polyethylenimine for polybrene sped up the analysis because the precycling employed to condition polybrene-coated glass fiber filters was no longer necessary.
  • (13) With the guar instillates, the faster outflow slightly sped the emptying of the spheres and significantly increased the diameter of emptied particles of 99mTc-labeled chicken liver.
  • (14) All substances studied but glycerol sped up the deamidation of albumin and gamma-globulin preparations both during thermal denaturation and incubation.
  • (15) Watford took the free-kick, sped up the other end and promptly won a rather soft penalty, after O’Shea and Lamine Koné simultaneously ran into Jurado, the referee blaming the former as he blew his whistle.
  • (16) Beyond the stadium, Rio felt like a militarised zone as 25,000 police and soldiers flooded the city and outriders sped heads of state including Merkel and the Russian president Vladimir Putin through the traffic.
  • (17) Having changed out of the white tracksuit he was wearing when he left Scotland into a dark suit and burgundy tie, Megrahi left the plane with the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif, who raised his hand to the crowd before they sped off in a convoy of white sedans.
  • (18) But as the truck full of frightened schoolgirls sped deeper into Boko Haram territory, two sisters clasped hands and jumped off together into the night.
  • (19) Still in her nightgown, she was carried to a small boat before the raiders sped away.
  • (20) Cassini, the scientists discovered, sped up and slowed down by a few millimetres per second as it flew past Enceladus.

Spend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
  • (v. t.) To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
  • (v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
  • (v. t.) To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
  • (v. t.) To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
  • (v. i.) To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
  • (v. i.) To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
  • (v. i.) To be diffused; to spread.
  • (v. i.) To break ground; to continue working.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.
  • (2) You can't spend more than you take in, and you can't keep doing it for ever and ever and ever.
  • (3) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
  • (4) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
  • (5) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
  • (6) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
  • (7) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
  • (8) "Their prioritising of pensioner spending over unemployment benefits fits with a picture seen across this generational work: they care about groups they see as being in genuine need and they put particular emphasis on helping those who have contributed."
  • (9) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
  • (10) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
  • (11) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
  • (12) The public finance forecasts are linked to those growth predictions, since stronger growth means healthier tax receipts and lower spending on unemployment benefit and other welfare measures.
  • (13) Yes, we need consumption to get the economy moving, but if you spend more than you have, you’re not helping anyone and certainly not helping yourself.
  • (14) Read more After Monday’s launch at 7.30am (11.30pm GMT), the taikonauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, where they will spend about a month, testing systems and processes for space stays and refuelling, and doing scientific experiments.
  • (15) Unfortunately, under the Faustian pact we have witnessed a double whammy: fiscal policy being used to reduce government spending when the economy is already depressed.
  • (16) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
  • (17) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
  • (18) It is spending £68m this year to help meet this target, including further investment in its China start-up, expansion of its main UK warehouse in Barnsley, and new facilities in Berlin and Shanghai, and expansion of a warehouse in Ohio.
  • (19) The share of expected transport infrastructure spending also moved away from cleaner public transport to roads and airports, which together rose from 8% to 36% of the total in 2015-20.
  • (20) Mallon's finance and resources director, Paul Slocombe, thinks Pickles's argument is "slightly disingenuous" because the funding was part of the last spending review, which ends on 31 March.