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Spread vs Enamel - What's the difference?

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Spread is a related term of enamel.


In lang=en terms the difference between spread and enamel

is that spread is to cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter while enamel is to disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.

As verbs the difference between spread and enamel

is that spread is to stretch out, open out (a material etc) so that it more fully covers a given area of space while enamel is to coat or decorate with enamel.

As nouns the difference between spread and enamel

is that spread is the act of spreading or something that has been spread while enamel is an opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects.

spread

English

Verb

  • 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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  • 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.
    • to spread a table
  • * Tennyson
    • Boiled the flesh, and spread the board.
  • (slang) To open one’s legs.
  • * 1984 , (Martin Amis), :
    • 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.
  • * 1991 , (Tori Amos), (Me and a Gun) :
    • Yes I wore a slinky red thing. Does that mean I should spread for you, your friends, your father, Mr Ed?
  • * 2003 , (Outkast), "Spread" (from the album ):
    • 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 about

    Derived terms

    * spread betting

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of spreading or something that has been spread.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine.
  • An expanse of land.
  • * Addison
    • I have got a fine spread of improvable land.
  • A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
  • * 2005 , , 00:11:50:
    • - 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.
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * straddle

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    enamel

    English

    (wikipedia enamel)

    Noun

  • An opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects.
  • A coating that dries to a hard, glossy finish.
  • The hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth.

    • Verb

  • To coat or decorate with enamel.
  • To variegate with colours, as if with enamel.
  • * Milton
    • Oft he [the serpent] bowed / His turret crest and sleek enamelled neck.
  • To form a glossy surface like enamel upon.
    • to enamel''' card paper; to '''enamel leather or cloth
  • To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.

    • Derived terms

    * enamelware * porcelain enamel * tooth enamel * vitreous enamel

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