spread : Idioms & Phrases


center spread

  • noun the spread at the center of a magazine
    center spread.
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centre spread

  • noun the spread at the center of a magazine
    center spread.
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cheese spread

  • noun spread made of cheese mixed with butter or cream or cream cheese and seasonings
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Spread eagle

  • noun an emblem (an eagle with wings and legs spread) on the obverse of the Great Seal of the United States
  • noun a skating figure executed with the skates heel to heel in a straight line
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  • . (a) An eagle with outspread wings, the national emblem of the United States. (b) The figure of an eagle, with its wings elevated and its legs extended; often met as a device upon military ornaments, and the like . (c) (Her.) An eagle displayed; an eagle with the wings and legs extended on each side of the body, as in the double-headed eagle of Austria and Russia. See Displayed, 2.
Webster 1913

spread head

  • noun two facing pages of a book or other publication
    spread; facing pages; spreadhead.
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spread out

  • verb move outward
    fan out; spread; diffuse.
    • The soldiers fanned out
  • verb set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series
    string out.
    • the houses were strung out in a long row
  • verb strew or distribute over an area
    spread; scatter.
    • He spread fertilizer over the lawn
    • scatter cards across the table
  • verb extend in one or more directions
    expand.
    • The dough expands
  • verb turn outward
    splay; rotate; turn out.
    • These birds can splay out their toes
    • ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees
  • verb move away from each other;
    scatter; disperse; dissipate.
    • The crowds dispersed
    • The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached
  • verb spread out or open from a closed or folded state
    spread; open; unfold.
    • open the map
    • spread your arms
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spread over

  • verb form a cover over
    cover.
    • The grass covered the grave
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spread-eagle

  • verb stretch out completely
    spread-eagle.
    • They spread-eagled him across the floor
  • verb stretch over
    spread-eagle.
    • His residences spread-eagle the entire county
  • verb execute a spread eagle on skates, with arms and legs stretched out
    spread-eagle.
  • verb stand with arms and legs spread out
    spread-eagle.
  • verb defeat disastrously
    spreadeagle; spread-eagle; rout.
  • adjective satellite with arms and legs stretched out and apart
    • lay spread-eagle on the floor
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Spread"-ea`gle adjective
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  1. Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech. Colloq.& Humorous [MW10] "esp. of the greatnes of the U.S."
Spread"-ea`gle intransitive verb
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  1. To assume a spread-eagled position; -- it may be done reclining, for relaxation, or momentarily, as an exhibitionary maneuver in a sport.
Webster 1913

spread-eagled

  • verb stretch out completely
    spread-eagle.
    • They spread-eagled him across the floor
  • verb stretch over
    spread-eagle.
    • His residences spread-eagle the entire county
  • verb execute a spread eagle on skates, with arms and legs stretched out
    spread-eagle.
  • verb stand with arms and legs spread out
    spread-eagle.
  • verb defeat disastrously
    spreadeagle; spread-eagle; rout.
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Spread"-ea`gled
Definitions
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment.
  2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
Webster 1913

spread-out

  • adjective satellite especially spread in a fan shape
    fanned.
    • the peacock's fanned tail
    • the spread-out cards
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spreading bellflower

  • noun European perennial bellflower that grows in clumps with spreading stems and blue or white flowers
    Campanula carpatica; tussock bellflower.
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spreading dogbane

  • noun North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints
    common dogbane; Apocynum androsaemifolium; rheumatism weed.
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spreading factor

  • noun an enzyme (trade name Hyazyme) that splits hyaluronic acid and so lowers its viscosity and increases the permeability of connective tissue and the absorption of fluids
    hyaluronidase; Hyazyme.
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spreading fleabane

  • noun well-branched plant with hairy leaves and stems each with a solitary flower head with narrow white or pink or lavender rays; western North America
    Erigeron divergens.
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spreading pogonia

  • noun orchid of northeastern United States with magenta-pink flowers having funnel-shaped lip; sometimes placed in genus Pogonia
    Pogonia divaricata; funnel-crest rosebud orchid; Cleistes divaricata.
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To sprad cloth

  • to unfurl sail. Obs.
Webster 1913