What is the difference between expand and spread?
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(label) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.
(label) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(label) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value
(label) To (be) change(d) from a smaller form/size to a larger one.
(label) To (be) increase(d) in extent, number, volume or scope.
(label) To speak or write at length or in detail.
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(label) To feel generous or optimistic.
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.
Spread is a synonym of expand.
In transitive terms the difference between expand and spread
is that expand is to express (something) at length and/or in detail while spread is to cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.In intransitive terms the difference between expand and spread
is that expand is to feel generous or optimistic while spread is to take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.As a noun spread is
the act of spreading or something that has been spread.expand
English
Verb
(en verb)- Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
Synonyms
* open out, spread, spread out, unfold * enlarge * (to express at length or in detail) elaborate (on), expand onAntonyms
* contract * contract * factorDerived terms
* expandable * expanderspread
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.
