Motion vs Spread - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
(countable) A change of position with respect to time.
* Dr. H. More
(physics) A change from one place to another.
* 1839 , Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95
(countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
(philosophy) from ; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 53:
Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
* South
(legal) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
(music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion'' is that by single degrees of the scale. ''Contrary motion'' is when parts move in opposite directions. ''Disjunct motion'' is motion by skips. ''Oblique motion'' is when one part is stationary while another moves. ''Similar'' or ''direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
* Grove
(obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To gesture indicating a desired movement.
(proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
To make a proposal; to offer plans.
To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
* Tennyson
(slang) To open one’s legs.
* 1984 , (Martin Amis), :
* 1991 , (Tori Amos), (Me and a Gun) :
* 2003 , (Outkast), "Spread" (from the album ):
The act of spreading or something that has been spread.
* Francis Bacon
An expanse of land.
* Addison
A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
* 2005 , , 00:11:50:
A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams
An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
A numerical difference.
(business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
(trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
(trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
(trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
(trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
(trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
(finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
(geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
As nouns the difference between motion and spread
is that motion is (uncountable) a state of progression from one place to another while spread is the act of spreading or something that has been spread.As verbs the difference between motion and spread
is that motion is to gesture indicating a desired movement while spread is to stretch out, open out (a material etc) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.motion
English
(wikipedia motion)Noun
- This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion .
- Secondly, When a body is once in motion' it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its ' motion .
- The motion to amend is now open for discussion.
- Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion .
- when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had bin else a meer artificiall Adam'', such an ''Adam as he is in the motions .
- "I say, it is no uneven jot, to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical'' life to the more considerable effects of ''general Motion'' in ''Minerals'', ''Metalls'', and sundry ''Meteors'', whose easie and rude shapes may have no need of any Principle of Life, or ''Spermatical form'' distinct from the ''Rest'' or ''Motion'' of the particles of the ''Matter ."
- Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God.
- The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint.
- What motion' s this? the model of Nineveh?
Synonyms
* (state of progression from one place to another) movement * (change from one place to another) move, movementAntonyms
* restDerived terms
* Brownian motion * motionless * perpetual motion * perpetual motion machineVerb
(en verb)- He motioned for me to come closer.
- (Shakespeare)
Usage notes
The parliamentary sense is incorrectly used by people who are not familiar with parliamentary procedure. They might say "I motion that such-and-such"—however, it would be correct to say "I move that such-and-such".spread
English
Verb
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
- to spread a table
- Boiled the flesh, and spread the board.
- This often sounds like the rap of a demented DJ: the way she moves has got to be good news, can't get loose till I feel the juice— suck and spread , bitch, yeah bounce for me baby.
- Yes I wore a slinky red thing. Does that mean I should spread for you, your friends, your father, Mr Ed?
- I don't want to move too fast, but / Can't resist your sexy ass / Just spread', ' spread for me; / (I can't, I can't wait to get you home)
Synonyms
* disseminate * circulate * propagate * put aboutDerived terms
* spread bettingNoun
(en noun)- No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine.
- I have got a fine spread of improvable land.
- - Can’t wait till I get my own spread and won’t have to put up with Joe Aguirre’s crap no more.
- I’m savin’ for a place myself.