SPREAD vs DIFFUSE: NOUN
- A misère or grando, in any game of cards in which the single player's cards are placed face up on the table. See skat and boston.
- In bacteriology, same as smear, 6.
- In mathematics: A continuous or discontinuous connected aggregate, assemblage, or manifold of elements: thus, for instance, a two-spread may be considered as a surface with points or lines as elements.
- Wingspread.
- A number of points offered to equalize the chances of winning in a wager on a competition, usually between sports teams.
- The difference in yields between two fixed-income securities, as between short-term and long-term bonds.
- The difference between the price asked and bid for a particular security.
- A position taken in two or more options or futures contracts in order to profit from a change in their relative prices.
- A difference, as between two figures or totals.
- An article or advertisement running across two or more columns of a newspaper or magazine.
- Two facing pages of a magazine, newspaper, or book, considered as a unit.
- A food to be spread on bread or crackers.
- An abundant meal laid out on a table.
- A cloth covering for a bed, table, or other piece of furniture.
- The extent or limit to which something is or can be spread.
- A ranch, farm, or estate.
- An open area of land; an expanse.
- Dissemination, as of news; diffusion.
- The act or process of spreading.
- Decorative cover for a bed
- A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- A haphazard distribution in all directions
- A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- A tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers
- Process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- Two facing pages of a book or other publication
- The expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- Act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
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SPREAD vs DIFFUSE: ADJECTIVE
- Distributed or spread over a considerable extent
- Fully extended in width
- Prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out
- (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
- Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.
- Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix
- Wordy or unclear: : wordy.
- Widely spread or scattered; not concentrated.
- Lacking conciseness
- Spread out; not concentrated in one place
SPREAD vs DIFFUSE: VERB
- Cause to become widely known
- Spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- Become widely known and passed on
- Move outward
- Cover by spreading something over
- Distribute over a surface in a layer
- Become distributed or widespread
- Distribute or disperse widely
- Spread across or over
- Strew or distribute over an area
- To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
- Cause to become widely known
- Spread or diffuse through
- Move outward
SPREAD vs DIFFUSE: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To become separated; be forced farther apart.
- To become or admit of being distributed in a layer.
- To be exhibited, displayed, or visible in broad or full extent.
- To become known or prevalent over a wide area.
- To move over an area, be distributed, or be widely dispersed.
- To be extended or enlarged.
- To flatten (a rivet end, for example) by pounding.
- To arrange (food or a meal) on a table.
- To prepare (a table) for eating; set.
- To cause to become widely seen or known; scatter or disseminate.
- To exhibit or display the full extent of.
- To make a wide or extensive arrangement of.
- To distribute widely.
- To cover with a layer.
- To make wider the gap between; move farther apart.
- To open to a fuller extent or width; stretch.
- To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
- To undergo diffusion.
- To become widely dispersed; spread out.
- To cause to undergo diffusion.
- To make less intense; weaken.
- To make less brilliant; soften.
- To make known to or cause to be used by large numbers of people; disseminate.
- To cause to spread out freely.
SPREAD vs DIFFUSE: TRANSITIVE VERB
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- To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.
SPREAD vs DIFFUSE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Especially having food set out
- Prepared or arranged for a meal
- To scatter; disperse; rout.
- In the language of the stock exchange, a straddle.
- In cookery, a fowl split open down the back and broiled.
- Nautical, a sailor or other person lashed in the rigging or elsewhere with arms and legs outspread: a form of punishment.
- Shallower than the standard; having insufficient depth or thickness for the highest luster: said of a gem.
- Extended in area; having a broad surface; broad.
- (idiom) (spread (oneself) thin) To work on too many projects: overextend oneself.
- Not concentrated in one place
- Spread out
- Synonyms Loose, rambling, wordy, long-winded, diluted, spun out.
- Hard to understand; perplexing; requiring extended effort.
- Prolix; using many words; verbose; rambling: said of speakers and writers or their style.
- In zoology, sparse; few and scattered, as markings; especially, in entomology, said of punctures, etc., when they are less thickly set than on a neighboring part from which they appear to be scattered off.
- In embryology, applied to a form of non-deciduate placenta in which the fetal villi form a broad belt.
- In boto, spreading widely and loosely.
- In pathology, spreading widely and having no distinctively defined limits: as, a diffuse inflammation or suppuration: opposed to circumscribed.
- Specifically
- Widely spread or diffused; extended; dispersed; scattered.
- To spread, as a fluid, by the wandering of its molecules in amongst those of a contiguous fluid.
- Synonyms To scatter, disseminate, circulate, disperse, distribute, propagate.
- To spread abroad; scatter; send out or extend in all directions.
- To pour out and spread, as a fluid; cause to flow and spread.
SPREAD vs DIFFUSE: RELATED WORDS
- Paste, Open, Extended, Unfold, Overspread, Distribute, Disperse, Diffuse, Scatter, Outspread, Distributed, Dispersed, Disseminate, Circulate, Propagate
- Fan out, Pass around, Broadcast, Distributed, Prolix, Distribute, Circularize, Circulate, Pervade, Disseminate, Imbue, Permeate, Spread, Propagate, Disperse
SPREAD vs DIFFUSE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Paste, Open, Extended, Unfold, Overspread, Distribute, Disperse, Diffuse, Scatter, Outspread, Distributed, Dispersed, Disseminate, Circulate, Propagate
- Defuse, Spread out, Fan out, Broadcast, Distributed, Prolix, Distribute, Circularize, Circulate, Disseminate, Imbue, Permeate, Spread, Propagate, Disperse
SPREAD vs DIFFUSE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- HIV does not spread throughout the body evenly.
- Moisten moldy materials to prevent the spread of spores: Stop the spread of dust and airborne spores by misting the contaminated area.
- The stat spread the wiki uses, and the stat spread used by the PBS files is different.
- We are increasing our efforts to prevent the spread of this disease in our facility and minimize its spread in the community.
- If your product is not good, then people will probably begin to spread the word, helping your ad campaign spread on the social network.
- Excessive rescue will weaken the effect of controlling the spread and spread of risks.
- How the glow spread and spread in their hearts, though the fire, banked for the night, was shining quite dimly now!
- Research findings point to short distance spread of the disease within the groves, implicating conidial spread.
- Tax filers electing to spread the inclusion in income would also spread it for purposes of MAGI.
- Trying to represent bond spread changes as the sum of a sector spread change and a rating spread change fails in many cases.
- She thinks that dreaming helps diffuse strong emotions.
- Diffuse These Essential Oil Blends To Welcome December!
- Control of the Internet Is Diffuse The diffuse control of the Internet makes planning for recovering from a disruption more challenging.
- Since this ray originates from diffuse reflection, the attenuation of this ray is accounted for using the diffuse transmittance property of the glass.
- SYSTEMS OF CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW: CENTRALISED VERSUS DIFFUSE Constitutional review can take two forms: centralised or diffuse.
- Problems of diffuse pollution are widespread, and where practical ways of improving diffuse pollution situations have been found, these have influenced policy options.
- All patients had diffuse goiter without nodularity on palpation and diffuse uptake of radioisotope in thyroid scintigraphy.
- THIS diffuse benefit, then you have to give up ALL diffuse benefits together.
- While gases diffuse rather quickly, liquids diffuse much more slowly.
- Diffuse brain injury includes diffuse axonal injury, hypoxic brain injury, diffuse cerebral edema, or diffuse vascular injury.
SPREAD vs DIFFUSE: QUESTIONS
- Does Facebook encourage people to spread misinformation?
- Will mass personalization spread to more companies?
- Is the temporal spread diachronically co-conscious?
- How does lymphangitic carcinomatosis spread to lymphatics?
- Are electrophysiological spread patterns contiguous or contagious?
- How did European colonialism spread infectious diseases?
- What causes antimicrobial-resistant germs to spread?
- What is the frequency spread without Landau damping (no frequency spread)?
- Is Welch's natural strawberry spread a jelly or fruit spread?
- How did the spread of knowledge spread throughout Europe?
- How are reactants diffuse in heterogeneous catalysis?
- Do tendon friction rubs predict diffuse scleroderma?
- What is diffuse echogenicity of thyroid parenchyma?
- What is de novo diabetic diffuse glomerulosclerosis?
- What are the characteristics of diffuse leiomyomatosis?
- What is diffuse cholesterolosis of the gallbladder?
- What is bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation?
- Where do prostaglandins diffuse to after synthesis?
- What are diffuse arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)?
- Is diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis hereditary?