Spread Out

Definition: Spread Out

Spread Out

Verb

1. Move outward; "The soldiers fanned out".

2. Set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series, as of houses in a long row.

3. Strew or distribute over an area; "He spread fertilizer over the lawn"; "scatter cards across the table".

4. Extend in one or more directions; "The dough expands".

5. Turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes".

6. Move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";.

7. Spread out or open from a closed or folded state; "open the map"; "spread your arms".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Spread Out

Expansion

Render larger; (large; ); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.

Crosswords: Spread Out

Let's see, uh George George there's a tumor in your brain, that's spread out like a hand, threads of it, you know, everywhere. (Phenomenon; writing credit: Gerald Di Pego)

Spread out and look for Mary Clarence. (Sister Act; writing credit: Joseph Howard)

Heaven knows it's marvelous being able to spread out in bed like a swastika. (The Women; writing credit: Anita Loos)

Two hours of sparkling entertainment, spread out over a four-hour show. (The 51st Annual Academy Awards; writing credit: Buz Kohan)

Spread out the oil, the gasoline (START ME UP; performing artist: Rolling Stones)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Figure 57. Trawl line hooks. Top: Hooks with their leaders. Bottom: an individual hook. The hooks were spread out along the same line and used to good advantage for catching fish, similar to what is called long-lining today. Prince Albert I of Monaco used this method in his first scientific expeditions. This method was particularly used by Henry Bouree for his studies. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Sage Grouse with feathers spread out. Credit: Unknown.

Dead rats spread out on a cloth. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Jane, you spread out her hair on it and cover it up with brown paper. Credit: Library of Congress.

More than once I found the tea-set spread out in the garden. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Airplane engines. All the parts of an airplane engine, which has just undergone severe tests in a Midwest plant, are spread out for minute inspection. After the checkup, the engine will be reassembled and sent on for final inspection. Continen. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

And there it was, a large Map of the World, spread out on the ground.

The page of life that was spread out before me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import.

He had already spread out several in this way during the hour he had been in the garden.

Mr Tate withdrew his delving hand and spread out the essay.

The dust from the roads fluffed up and spread out and fell on the weeds beside the fields, and fell into the fields a little way.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The shots are spread out over a year. Adults get two or three shots over 6 to 12 months. (references)

While malignant cells elsewhere in the body can easily seed tumors inside the brain and spinal cord, malignant CNS tumors rarely spread out to other body parts. (references)

Thus, decreases in doses may be spread over weeks or months, with larger decrements early in the withdrawal phase and smaller decrements once the daily dose becomes 50 mg or less. Discontinuation of lithium can be done abruptly or spread out over a couple of weeks. (references)

Business

Payment by installments are normally spread out over 6-12 months and are generally accepted in most furniture retail stores that sell ready-made items. (references)

A recent example has been the installation by the Ministry of the Interior of surveillance cameras -- spread out in 50 Italian cities -- to aid in the fight against crime. (references)

The Warsaw market has the largest concentration of office construction, with 65 percent of all activity, but development has already begun to spread out into other large cities. (references)

Economic History

Uae

US beef exported to the UAE has mostly been US choice cuts for 5-star hotel restaurant use and now, in addition, more processed meat for the casual dining and quick service restaurants which have spread out across Dubai and Abu Dhabi. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "spread out": spread out the table. Additional references.

Albanian

shpërndahem (break up, disband, disperse, dissipate, grow dim, lift, outreach, reach, scatter, spread, straggle, thin). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إستقر (be located, become steady, deposit, locate, lodge, move, plateau, set, settle, settle down, settle oneself, sit, stabilize, steady, subside). (various references)

Chinese 

鋪平 (pave), �"� (vendor's stand), 捭 (to open, weed). (various references)

Czech

prostírat se (extend, range, reach, spread, stretch). (various references)

Danish

sprede (lay out, spread). (various references)

Dutch

spreiden (lay out, spread), uitvouwen, uitspreiden (lay out, spread), opzetten (pad, stuff, swell, tousle, upholster), ontvouwen (lay out, spread). (various references)

Esperanto

sterni (lay out, spread), malfaldi. (various references)

Faeroese

breiða (lay out, spread). (various references)

Finnish

levittää (disseminate, extend, lay out, propagate, spread). (various references)

French

étendre (spread). (various references)

German

entfalten (deploy, develop, display, exhibit, expound, launch into, open out, set forth, unfold, unfurl). (various references)

Greek 

καταμερισμός των παρεχομένων υπηρεσιών αεροπορικών μεταφορών (to spread out the supply of air transport services). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפוץ (be dispersed, be scattered), ל�"תפשט (expand, get about, pervade, propagate, spread, suffuse), ל�"ציע את �"מט�" (bed, make the bed). (various references)

Hungarian

kiterjed (expand, spread, to cover, to escalate, to expand, to lengthen, to range, to stretch, to unfold, unfold). (various references)

Indonesian

tergelar, menggelar (give a title to, roll out, to name), mendasar (be basic, display), membeberkan (expand, explain, proclaim, unfold). (various references)

Italian

spiegare (account for, clarify, clear up, demonstrate, enucleate, explain, explain oneself, expound, interpret, project, read, solve, spread, to explain, unfold, unfurl), irradiare (beam, irradiate, radiate), espandere (enlarge, entlarge, expand, extend, stretch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

豁然 (all of a sudden, broad). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かつぜ�" (all of a sudden, broad, keen or piercing eye, the sound of striking something hard). (various references)

Manx

skeaylt magh, skeaylley magh (extend; put down, set down). (various references)

Pig Latin

eadspray outay

Portuguese

fazercair (spread), expor (account, carry forth, converse, create, demonstrate, disclose, enunciate, exhibit, explicate, expose, expound, feature, imperil, lay open, produce, propone, propound, put, report, represent, set up, show, speak, spread, state, subject, turn up), estender (broaden, deploy, extend, flummox, hang out, hold out, lay, lengthen, proffer, prolong, put forth, spread, strech out, stretch, uncoil, unroll, widen), desfraldar (furl, spread, unfurl, unroll), desenvolver (advance, build up, cultivate, evolve, expand, explicate, increase, put forth, spread), desdobrar (extend, fade, open, spread, strech out, unfold), deitar (bed, cob, flow, give over, lay, put, put bed, shoot, spread, throw), altear-se. (various references)

Russian 

разостлать (spread). (various references)

Scottish

spleuc (spread out by trampling, squint). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raširiti (broaden, diffuse, disseminate, fill, propagate, splay, spread, unfold, unfurl, widen), ispružiti (crane, extend, put out, reach, reach out, stretch out), širiti (effuse, eradiate). (various references)

Spanish

extendido (engrossment, extended, extensive, issued, laid, lay, open, outspread, outstretched, prevalent, rampant, rife, spread wide, straggling, straggly, widespread), extenderse (be, expand, extend, grow, last, lie, range, reach, spread, spread oneself, stretch, stretch out, travel, unfold), extender (carry, draw, draw up, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, hold out, issue, lay, lay down, lay out, make bigger, make out, obtrude, open, open out, open up, overblow, prolong, put forth, put out, renew, spread, stretch, stretch out, string out, unfold, unfurl, widen, write out), expandir (expand), esparcirse (be scattered, relax, scatter, splash, unwind). (various references)

Swedish

spärra (block up, lock, obstruct), breda ut sig (dilate, expatiate, extend, gain ground, open, sound off). (various references)

Turkish

sermek (lay, lay out, let things slide, spread, stretch, unfold), yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, divulge, emit, evolve, exhale, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), yayılmak (be out at grass, be rife, branch, circulate, diffuse, disperse, effuse, emanate, expand, fan, fan out, get about, get around, get round, go, grow rife, loll, lounge, mushroom, outstretch, overspread, permeate, pervade, ramble, ramp, resound, scatter, splay, sprawl, spread, spread oneself, stretch, unfold), genişlemek (broaden, dilate, enlarge, expand, extend, flare, splay, sprawl, widen, yawn), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow), açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind). (various references)

Turkmen 

sermek, semek (hang out, weigh), dьюemek (pave), зasyrmak (pitch a tent, set up). (various references)

Ukrainian

розтягуватися (dilate, elongate, stretch, stretch out, tail away, tail off, yield), розтягувати (balloon, distend, elongate, overblow, protract, pull, spin out, stretch). (various references)

diffundentur, diffusa, diffusi, diffusus, distendantur, distenti, distentionem, effuderim, effuderint, effuderis, effuderit, effuderitis, effudero, effuderunt, effudi, effudisti, effudit, effundam, effundant, effundas, effundatis, effundatur, effunde, effundebantque, effundebatur, effundendum, effundens, effundensque, effundent, effundentem, effundentes, effundentium, effunderem, effunderent, effundes, effundet, effundetur, effundi, effundit, effundite, effunditur, effundo, effusa, effusi, effuso, effusorum, effusum, effusus, expandam, expande, expandebant, expandebat, expandent, expandentes, expandentesque, expandentisque, expanderent, expanderit, expanderunt, expandet, expandi, expandimus, expandisti, expandit, expansae, expansum, expansus, fusa, fusae, fusi, fusis, fusum, fusus, pandens, pandent, pandentur, pandetur, pando, passa, passae, passam, passi, passo, passos, passum, passuros, passurus, passus, repandi, substernebant, substravit, supereffundentia. (various references)

despleier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outspread.

-1 letter: adopters, apterous, outdares, outreads, pastored, pastured, postured, proudest, readopts, readouts, sprouted, updaters, upsoared, upstared.

-2 letters: adopter, aroused, departs, deports, detours, dourest, esparto, outdare, outread, outsped, pasture, petards, petrous, podesta, posture, pouters, proteas, proteus, readopt, readout, redouts, redtops, roasted, rousted, seaport, sported, spouted, spouter, spurted, torsade, trouped, troupes, updarts, updater, updates, uprated, uprates.

+1 letter: outspreads, sporulated.

+2 letters: outsparkled, repudiators.

+3 letters: deuteranopes, mousetrapped, outspreading, postgraduate, proctodaeums, repudiations, superstardom.

+4 letters: deuteranopias, postgraduates, propaedeutics, superaddition, superdiplomat, superordinate, superovulated, superstardoms.

+5 letters: daguerreotypes, overspeculated, pachydermatous, pseudopregnant, reduplications, repudiationist, superadditions, superdiplomats.