What is the difference between straddle and spread?
straddle | spread | Synonyms |
To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something.
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, But guess my surprise, when I saw the lazy young rogue lie down on his back, and gently pull down Polly upon him, who giving way to his humour, straddled , and with her hands conducted her blind favourite to the right place}}
* 1853 , Nathaniel Hawthorne,
* 1978 , Jimmy Carter,
To form a disorderly sprawl.
(military) To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range.
(poker) To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).
To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
a posture in which one straddles something
(finance) an investment strategy involving trade in derivatives
(poker) A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.
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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, title= 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.
* Tennyson
(slang) To open one’s legs.
* 1984 , (Martin Amis), :
* 1991 , (Tori Amos), (Me and a Gun) :
* 2003 , (Outkast), "Spread" (from the album ):
The act of spreading or something that has been spread.
* Francis Bacon
An expanse of land.
* Addison
A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
* 2005 , , 00:11:50:
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.
Spread is a synonym of straddle.
In intransitive terms the difference between straddle and spread
is that straddle is to stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub while spread is to take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.In finance terms the difference between straddle and spread
is that straddle is an investment strategy involving trade in derivatives while spread is the difference between the prices of two similar items.As verbs the difference between straddle and spread
is that straddle is to sit or stand with a leg on each side of something while spread is to stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.As nouns the difference between straddle and spread
is that straddle is a posture in which one straddles something while spread is the act of spreading or something that has been spread.straddle
English
Verb
- As they approached the entrance of the port, the giant straddled clear across it, with a foot firmly planted on each headland,
- The mountain-ringed Yukon Flats basin straddles the Arctic Circle and is bisected by the Yukon River.
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia straddle)spread
English
Verb
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- to spread a table
- Boiled the flesh, and spread the board.
- 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.
- Yes I wore a slinky red thing. Does that mean I should spread for you, your friends, your father, Mr Ed?
- 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 aboutDerived terms
* spread bettingNoun
(en noun)- No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine.
- I have got a fine spread of improvable land.
- - 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.