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The eternal verb of butter, rumors, wings, and the diseases nobody asked to host.
means To open out, distribute, or extend something across a surface, area, or group of people — whether butter on toast, news through a town, or a bird's wings into the air.
from From Old English 'sprædan,' to stretch or extend, with cousins across the Germanic family — Dutch 'spreiden' and German 'spreiten' both share the gesture. The root carries the idea of pulling something flat and wide, which is why we still spread sheets, spread the word, and spread ourselves too thin. The noun sense of 'a meal laid out' (a fine spread) is a later, table-bound flowering of the same outward motion.
- betting term
- Point spreads handicap favorites so both teams draw bets
- finance gap
- Bid-ask spread is where market makers quietly profit
- newspaper layout
- A spread is two facing pages designed as one
- eagle pose
- Spread-eagle named for heraldic birds with splayed wings
- deli math
- Cheese spreads exist to make stale crackers feel loved
mycobacterium tuberculosis — infects 10 million people annually across every inhabited continent