(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.
Stretch
Definition:
(v. t.) To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
(v. t.) To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
(v. t.) To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
(v. t.) To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.
(v. t.) To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
(v. t.) To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
(v. i.) To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.
(v. i.) To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.
(v. i.) To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.
(v. i.) To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
(v. i.) To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
(n.) Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.
(n.) A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.
(n.) The extent to which anything may be stretched.
(n.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.
(n.) Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tendon (T) and Hoffmann (H) reflexes were analyzed during static stretching (SS).
(2) An AT-rich stretch is centered at position -31 with respect to the transcription initiation site, and a potential CCAAT box is centered at position -138.
(3) Mechanosensitive ion channels may play a key role in transducing vascular smooth muscle (VSM) stretch into active force development.
(4) Endothelial release of the arachidonate derivative PGI2 may be increased in response to cyclic lung stretching.
(5) Differences in scar depression also supported the idea of more stretching in the Dexon group.
(6) The maximum force level reached during the stretch was affected very little.
(7) Cerebral angiogram displayed a contralateral shift and an unrolling of the anterior cerebral artery, a lateral stretch of middle cerebral artery, a downward stretch of anterior choroidal artery and a tumor stain fed by the Heubner artery.
(8) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
(9) Phycomyces sporangiophores respond to four distinct physical stimuli: gravity, light, stretch, and an avoidance stimulus.
(10) Increase in activity of pulmonary stretch receptors causes inhibition of inspiration and bronchodilation.
(11) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(12) During ischaemia M1 stretch responses showed a more rapid and pronounced decline than did M2 responses and were abolished before voluntary power was appreciably affected.
(13) The stretch reflex in man has a direct role in compensating for small disturbances during motor tasks.
(14) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(15) Cubitus valgus or instability due to a pseudarthrosis of the lateral epicondyle or to ligamentous injury may stretch the nerve.
(16) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
(17) The presence of a form of stretch reflex, previously described in the arm by other authors, has been confirmed in the gastrocnemius muscle of the human leg.
(18) The influence of stretch and radial compression on the width of mechanically skinned fibers from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog (R. pipiens) was examined in relaxing solutions with high-power light microscopy.
(19) The bent DNA has been localized to a 40-55 base pair (bp) segment and contains six (A)3-5 stretches (that is, six poly(A) stretches, three to five nucleotides in length) phased approximately every 10.5 bp.
(20) This figure suggests that, unless there are substantial stretches of free DNA, the polyoma nucleoprotein complex contains about 26 nucleosomes.