What is the difference between cover and spread?
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A lid.
A hiding from view.
A front and back of a book or magazine.
A top sheet of a bed.
A cover charge.
A setting at a restaurant table or formal .
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, chapter=1 (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
(topology) A set (more often known as a family ) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
(philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
(military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
(legal) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
(insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story
The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
(music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
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To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
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To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
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To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
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*:the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland
(label) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
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To deal with.
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To be enough money for.
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(label) To act as a replacement.
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(label) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
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(label) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or'' to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; ''or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
To provide insurance coverage for.
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To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
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To protect or control (a piece or square).
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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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, 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.
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(slang) To open one’s legs.
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The act of spreading or something that has been spread.
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An expanse of land.
* Addison
A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
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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.
In intransitive terms the difference between cover and spread
is that cover is to act as a replacement while spread is to take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.In transitive terms the difference between cover and spread
is that cover is to have as an assignment or responsibility while spread is to cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.As nouns the difference between cover and spread
is that cover is a lid while spread is the act of spreading or something that has been spread.As verbs the difference between cover and spread
is that cover is to place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect while spread is to stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.As an adjective cover
is of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.cover
English
(wikipedia cover)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
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Derived terms
* cover board * cover charge * cover letter * cover story * cover version * take cover * tonneau coverAdjective
(-)Verb
(en verb)Charles T. Ambrose
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Quotations
* (English Citations of "cover")Derived terms
* coverage * cover up * cover one's bases * coverer * discover * duck and cover * recover * uncoverDescendants
* German: (l)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.