A Spread
- The act of spreading.
- Something that has been spread.
- (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- An expanse of land.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
- (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food. Synonym: swole
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- A numerical difference.
- (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
- (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.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
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