Spread and Throw

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.

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.

noun

• The act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist. )
  • usage: "the catcher made a good throw to second base"
• A single chance or instance.
  • usage: "he couldn't afford $50 a throw"
• The maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam.
  • synonyms: stroke, cam stroke
• Bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something.
• Casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly.
  • usage: "he risked his fortune on a throw of the dice"

verb

• Propel through the air.
  • usage: "throw a frisbee"
• Move violently, energetically, or carelessly.
  • usage: "She threw herself forwards"
• Get rid of.
  • usage: "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
  • synonyms: shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw off, throw away, drop
• Place or put with great energy.
  • usage: "She threw the blanket around the child"; "thrust the money in the hands of the beggar"
  • synonyms: thrust
• Convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture.
  • usage: "Throw a glance"; "She gave me a dirty look"
  • synonyms: give
• Cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation.
  • usage: "switch on the light"; "throw the lever"
  • synonyms: flip, switch
• Put or send forth.
  • usage: "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"
  • synonyms: project, cast, contrive
• To put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly.
  • usage: "Jane threw dinner together"; "throw the car into reverse"
• Cause to be confused emotionally.
  • synonyms: bewilder, bemuse, discombobulate
• Utter with force; utter vehemently.
  • usage: "hurl insults"; "throw accusations at someone"
  • synonyms: hurl
• Organize or be responsible for.
  • usage: "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course"
  • synonyms: hold, have, make, give
• Make on a potter's wheel.
  • usage: "she threw a beautiful teapot"
• Cause to fall off.
  • usage: "The horse threw its inexperienced rider"
• Throw (a die) out onto a flat surface.
  • usage: "Throw a six"
• Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.
  • usage: "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
  • synonyms: confuse, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate

• (n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
• (n.) An effort; a violent sally.
• (n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
• (v.t.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
• (n.) The distance which a missile is or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
• (v.t.) To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
• (n.) Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
• (v.t.) To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
• (v.t.) To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
• (v.t.) To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
• (v.t.) To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
• (n.) The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
• (n.) A stroke; a blow.
• (n.) A turner's lathe; a throwe.
• (v.t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
• (v.t.) To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
• (v.t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
• (v.t.) To fling, cast or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss or to bowl.
• (n.) A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
• (v.t.) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
• (n.) Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
• (v.i.) To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
• (v.t.) To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
• (n.) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow or a downthrow.