Spread vs Swirl - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between spread and swirl

is that spread is to stretch out, open out (a material etc) so that it more fully covers a given area of space while swirl is (ambitransitive) to twist or whirl, as an eddy.

As nouns the difference between spread and swirl

is that spread is the act of spreading or something that has been spread while swirl is a whirling eddy.

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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swirl

English

Noun

(en noun)

A whirling eddy.

A twist or coil of something.

Derived terms

* (l)

Verb

(en verb)

(ambitransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.

I swirled my brush around in the paint.

* Charles Kingsley

The river swirled along.

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, year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The contest was a lot more even in the second half, as the wind swirled around the Stadium of Light, but it took Craig Gardner's superb block to prevent Young getting on the scoresheet.}}

To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl.

(figuratively) to circulate

* 2013 May 23, , " British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):

Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.