(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.
Wholesale
Definition:
(n.) Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail.
(a.) Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price.
(a.) Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The retail and wholesale divisions powered the improved profits.
(2) Analysis by theenergyshop.com found bills would have been cut by around £140 had the wholesale cuts had been passed on in full.
(3) A quarter of all cocaine consumed in Western Europe is trafficked through West Africa, according to UNOCD, for a local wholesale value of $1.8bn and a retail value of 10 times that in Europe.
(4) Engie, the owner of Rugeley coal-fired station in Staffordshire, which made the most recent closure announcement earlier this month, blamed low wholesale power prices as much as carbon taxes for its decision .
(5) Matches on the NDCD tape could be found for 80% of the items in the shelf stock sample and 69.5% of the items in the tape supplied by the wholesaler.
(6) However, given the upsurge in demand Comag is working with wholesalers Smith News and Menzies Distribution to get more copies into shops.
(7) As the Democrats have often found in the US, when they have tried to construct rainbow coalitions out of class- and colour-defined blocs of the population, groups that can be counted on wholesale in theory often splinter into individuals that it may not be possible to count on at all.
(8) However to see changes of this magnitude proposed which are wholesale changes to terms and conditions and not the basis upon which I accepted the job, then I do feel worse off and also vulnerable.
(9) Although there are some circumstances in which it is sensible to privatise, there are many good reasons why wholesale privatisation should be shunned .
(10) There is no broad-based constituency for wholesale civil-military reform in Pakistan, let alone at a time when terrorist attacks occur at a steady rate of more than 150 a month and Kayani has so visibly pushed back against American demands.
(11) Npower blamed its planned rises on increases in wholesale gas and electricity costs and the cost of delivering government policies, such as smart metering and subsidies for renewable energy.
(12) But I was the one who was prepared to walk away.” Davey defended the cost of the deal, which guarantees the French operator EDF almost three times the current wholesale energy price.
(13) The Brotherhood's Libyan incarnation won only 10% of the vote in last year's congressional elections, but gained support with its campaign to mandate wholesale purges of Gaddafi-era officials.
(14) But British Gas has warned of further bill increases, claiming in May that wholesale gas prices were about 15% higher than in 2011.
(15) But for smart mid-life women and families, a wholesale re-framing of work and innovation is what's needed.
(16) It reveals that Beijing believes the economic and political situation to be worsening and that elements on the North’s ruling Korean Workers’ Party that have been urging more wholesale economic reform (known loosely in Beijing as the Chrysanthemum Group) are distinctly on the back foot, if not now almost wholly purged.
(17) Public anger has been intensified by accusations that the Big Six - British Gas-owner Centrica, EDF, Npower, SSE, E.on and Scottish Power – tend to raise bills in quickly when wholesale gas prices go up, but fail to cut them so much when the international market falls.
(18) HSBC's analysts said: "The levy may end up undershooting [targets] if banks can adjust their balance sheets away from short-term wholesale funding."
(19) That subscription lets you take books out for free from the Kindle Owners Lending Library ( some of which Amazon pays full wholesale price for ) and, in the US, watch some of the new TV series Amazon has produced, also for free (I don't need to explain how the company loses money on that).
(20) It seems that a 21st-century version of Glass-Steagall, the core building block in the wholesale reconstruction of the US financial system in the wake of the Depression, was code for doing the exact opposite.