Spread vs Spreadability - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between spread and spreadability

is that spread is the act of spreading or something that has been spread while spreadability is ease of spreading or of being spread.

As a verb spread

is to stretch out, open out (a material etc) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.

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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