What's the difference between spread and spreader?

Spread


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Spread
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.
  • (v. t.) 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 acompanied by abroad.
  • (v. t.) To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.
  • (v. t.) To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
  • (v. t.) To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.
  • (v. t.) To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.
  • (v. i.) To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.
  • (v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.
  • (v. i.) To be made known more extensively, as news.
  • (v. i.) To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.
  • (n.) Extent; compass.
  • (n.) Expansion of parts.
  • (n.) A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
  • (n.) A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.
  • (n.) A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.
  • (n.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Spread, v.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
  • (2) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (3) The tilt was reproduced with a typical spread of about 10 degrees.
  • (4) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
  • (5) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (6) The spatial spread or blur parameter of the blobs was adopted as a scale parameter.
  • (7) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
  • (8) The agriculture ministry raised the risk level of the virus spreading from moderate to high on Tuesday across the country, at a crucial time for the industry.
  • (9) A television camera scans the spread through microscope optics; computer and special purpose electronics process the video signals to generate run length histograms.
  • (10) Prognoses differ according to the histological type of carcinoma, but therapeutic results are also influenced by osseous involvement or by spread to the lymph nodes.
  • (11) This paper describes a teaching process in which two 4th year medical students learn a family approach to problem solving during a short clerkship of twelve hours spread over four weekly sessions.
  • (12) The type I cells are squamous and give off attenuated sheets of cytoplasm which spread widely over the septal surface; these sheets contain few organelles.
  • (13) Histologically, all 17 lesions were squamous cell carcinomas; 10 lesions being mucosal carcinomas, the remaining 7 lesions mucosal carcinomas spreading beyond the epithelial layer.
  • (14) Previous studies have shown that immunosuppressive therapy permits the growth and spread of inadvertently transplanted malignant cells in man, and, in addition, is associated with a 5 to 6% incidence of de novo cancers in organ homograft recipients who were apparently free of cancer before and at the time of transplantation.
  • (15) Field sizes varied from 3 X 4 to 3 X 12 cm depending on lesion spreading.
  • (16) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
  • (17) The average length of spreading of the whole type was 14.5 mm, and the average length of spreading of the basal type, 19.6 mm.
  • (18) If mammography becomes a wide spread screening method for early detection of breast cancer, the number of non-true interval cancers could be a feed back on the effectiveness of the screening.
  • (19) The present studies examined the effect of cytosolic protons on electrotonic spread and conduction velocity in cardiac Purkinje fibers.
  • (20) The most effective method of combined therapy of locally spread rhinopharyngeal cancer was polychemotherapy (bleomycetin, methotrexate, vinblastine, and cyclophosphamide) before irradiation with subsequent maintenance cyclophosphamide chemotherapy once in 4 weeks for 3-6 months.

Spreader


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.
  • (n.) A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 20 canals finger spreaders were used for the condensation and in a further 20 canals D-11-T spreaders were used.
  • (2) A higher percentage of BPBs and wet spreaders (Capnocytophaga) was noted at partially edentulous implant sites when compared with edentulous implant sites, perhaps reflecting the lower numbers of periodontal pathogens present in edentulous mouths.
  • (3) Different kinds of spreaders can be used in the lateral condensation technique.
  • (4) As we picked our way along stream-side bushes, pulling off hard little rosehips and stripping elders of their berries, the scent of September filled the air; the smell after muck-spreaders had been out in the fields.
  • (5) Based on a minimum 1-year follow-up of 14 patients and a total experience of 28 patients, the procedure has the following advantages: (1) near normal anatomic structure is retained, (2) common secondary dorsal deformities are avoided, (3) the retained roof can function as a spreader graft, (4) the skin attachment with its attendant blood supply is preserved, and (5) the graft can be removed primarily or easily modified secondarily.
  • (6) Significantly less apical dye penetration occurred when teeth were obturated using an ultrasonically activated spreader as compared with manual condensation with fine finger spreaders.
  • (7) The highest intracanal temperature recorded was 114.51 degrees C at a power setting of 6, while the mean intracanal temperature increase above the average room temperature ranged from 8.18 to 65.05 degrees C. In addition, the spreader was not uniformly heated to the same temperature throughout its entire length.
  • (8) There were 1,700 snow plows and 450 salt spreaders working the streets in New York City, De Blasio said.
  • (9) It has been shown that the taper should be sufficient to permit deep penetration of the spreader or plugger alongside the gutta-percha during lateral condensation.
  • (10) The catheter was a kind of spreader causing insufficiency of the tricuspid valve.
  • (11) In conclusion, although there were no significant differences in mean deformation or fracture incidence in curved roots between the spreaders, the roots showing high deformation readings in the D11 group may be more susceptible to future vertical root fractures.
  • (12) The device used for measuring stiffness of a spinal motion segment is a lumbar spinal spreader with a load strain gauge and a displacement transducer.
  • (13) Accordingly, a wide range of adaptive equipment is available--including outrigger skis, flip-skis, canting wedges, ski bras, "toe spreaders," sit-skis, and mono-skis--to allow safe enjoyment of the sport.
  • (14) Two evaluators independently measured 20 randomly selected samples of each size of finger spreader and accessory gutta-percha cone.
  • (15) Only the more tapered spreader, the D11, produces vertical root fractures, although very few in number.
  • (16) Governor Christie (@GovChristie) There are approximately 3,300 plows and spreaders out on New Jersey highways, including the Turnpike, GSP and ACE.
  • (17) Moreover, he suggests a wound spreader for appendectomy, supplied with a grip mechanism, that helps avoiding peritoneal traumas and facilitates suturing of muscles.
  • (18) The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of vertical root fractures in the mesial roots of extracted human mandibular molars that were endodontically prepared by hand or ultrasonic instrumentation and obturated with laterally condensed gutta-percha and sealer using finger and hand spreaders.
  • (19) January 3, 2014 6.25pm GMT The storm "has moved entirely off the coast of New Jersey and road conditions are continuing to improve," according to no less an authority than Governor Chris Christie, who adds: We are down to black pavement along most highways, but the plows and salt spreader trucks are still out there working.
  • (20) On these bases the Authors evaluated and compared the morphology of some spreaders, and gave data and directions how to rationally use these instruments in clinical practice.

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