Spread vs Explode - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between spread and explode

is that spread is to cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter while explode is to blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.

As verbs the difference between spread and explode

is that spread is to stretch out, open out (a material etc) so that it more fully covers a given area of space while explode is to destroy with an explosion.

As a noun spread

is the act of spreading or something that has been spread.

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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explode

English

(explosion)

Alternative forms

* asplode, esplode (all non-standard)

Verb

(explod)

To destroy with an explosion.

The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.

To destroy violently or abruptly.

They sought to explode the myth.

To create an exploded view.

Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible.

(archaic) To disprove or debunk.

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Astrology is required by many famous physiciansdoubted of, and exploded by others.

To blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.

The bomb explodes .

(figuratively) To make a violent or emotional outburst.

She exploded when I criticised her hat.

* 1902 , Albert R. Carman, “My Bridal Trip” (short story), in The Canadian Magazine , Volume 20, Number 1 (November 1902), page 15:

“Nonsense!” Jack exploded at me. “Why Miss Bertram here knocked that theory into a cocked hat coming over on the train.”

(computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.

* 2004 , Hugh E. Williams, ?David Lane, Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL

The third check uses the exploded data stored in the array $parts and the function checkdate() to test if the date is a valid calendar date.

To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.

* 1992 , "Steve Tibbett", PKZIP Implode compression/decompression.'' (on newsgroup ''comp.compression )

I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work

Synonyms

* unstring