Array and Spread

array

noun

An orderly arrangement.
- usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
An impressive display.
- usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
Especially fine or decorative clothing.
- synonyms: raiment, regalia
An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
- usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
- synonyms: range, lay out, set out
Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
- synonyms: align

(n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
(n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
(n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
(n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
(n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
(n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
(n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
(n.) An imposing series of things.
(n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
(n.) The panel itself.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

spread

noun

Process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space.
- synonyms: spreading
A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
- usage: "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread between lending and borrowing costs"
- synonyms: gap
Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle.
- synonyms: ranch, cattle ranch, cattle farm
A haphazard distribution in all directions.
- synonyms: scatter
A tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes.
- synonyms: paste
A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed.
- usage: "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast"; "they put out quite a spread"
- synonyms: banquet, feast
Two facing pages of a book or other publication.
- synonyms: spread head, spreadhead, facing pages
The expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age. )
- usage: "she exercised to avoid that middle-aged spread"
Decorative cover for a bed.
- synonyms: bedspread, bedcover, bed cover, bed covering, counterpane
Act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time.
- synonyms: spreading

verb

Distribute or disperse widely.
- usage: "The invaders spread their language all over the country"
- synonyms: distribute
Become distributed or widespread.
- usage: "the infection spread"; "Optimism spread among the population"
- synonyms: propagate
Spread across or over.
- usage: "A big oil spot spread across the water"
- synonyms: overspread
Spread out or open from a closed or folded state.
- usage: "open the map"; "spread your arms"
- synonyms: unfold, spread out, open
Cause to become widely known.
- usage: "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
- synonyms: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, diffuse, disperse, pass around
Become widely known and passed on.
- usage: "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office"
- synonyms: go around, circulate
Strew or distribute over an area.
- usage: "He spread fertilizer over the lawn"; "scatter cards across the table"
- synonyms: scatter, spread out
Move outward.
- usage: "The soldiers fanned out"
- synonyms: diffuse, spread out, fan out
Cover by spreading something over.
- usage: "spread the bread with cheese"
Distribute over a surface in a layer.
- usage: "spread cheese on a piece of bread"

adjective

Distributed or spread over a considerable extent.
- usage: "has ties with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe"
- synonyms: dispersed
Prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out.
- usage: "a table spread with food"
Fully extended in width.
- usage: "outspread wings"; "with arms spread wide"
- synonyms: outspread

(n.) An arbitrage transaction operated by buying and selling simultaneously in two separate markets, as Chicago and New York, when there is an abnormal difference in price between the two markets. It is called a back spreadwhen the difference in price is less than the normal one.
(n.) Surface in proportion to the depth of a cut stone.
imp. & p. p. of Spread, v.
(n.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
(imp.&p.p.) of Spread.
(v.t.) To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad.
(n.) Extent; compass.
(v.t.) To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.
(v.i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.
(n.) Expansion of parts.
(v.i.) To extend in length and breadth in all directions or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.
(n.) A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
(v.t.) To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
(v.t.) To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.
(v.i.) To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.
(v.i.) To be made known more extensively, as news.
(n.) A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.
(n.) A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.
(v.t.) To extend in length and breadth or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.
(v.t.) To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.
(v.t.) To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. Noun — The difference between two prices or two rates. Different users have many different and highly specific usages of this term. For example, traders use' spread' to mean the difference between bid and asked prices for a security. Underwriters use spread to mean the difference between the price realized by the issuer and the price paid by the investor. Bank analysts use spread to mean the difference between the average rate paid on a bank's assets and the average rate paid on the bank's liabilities. (In connection with the use of the term spread by bank analysts, see net interest margin. In ALM, when spread is used as a noun it most often refers to the difference between two rates or yields. 2. Noun — Financial analysts, credit analysts, and lenders use the term spread to refer to a financial statement that has been converted to a standard format for purposes of analysis or comparison. 3. Verb — In ALM, most often means the disaggregation of a quantity. For example, the total amount of certificates of deposit on a bank's balance sheet may be spread into different time interval buckets on a gap report. 4. Verb — The process of reformatting financial statements for the purposes of analysis or comparison.

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