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Spreading vs Proliferation - What's the difference?

spreading | proliferation |

As nouns the difference between spreading and proliferation

is that spreading is the act by which something is spread while proliferation is proliferation, spreading.

As a verb spreading

is .

spreading

English

Verb

(head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10, author=Audrey Garric
  • , volume=188, issue=22, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is spread.
  • * 1991 , Samuel D. Robbins, Wisconsin Birdlife: Population & Distribution Past & Present (page 579)
  • Small numbers [of meadowlarks] remain on farms in the southern counties throughout the winter, usually relying on fresh manure spreadings for food when snow covers the fields.

    proliferation

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
  • (countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • (countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
  • (uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.