Used in a Sentence

spreads

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for spreads.

Editorial note

Failure on a project is not a communicable disease that spreads to other projects through developers; success is likewise.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The act of spreading.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of spreads gathered in one view.

noun

The act of spreading.

noun

Something that has been spread.

noun

A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for spreads.

noun

The act of spreading.

noun

Something that has been spread.

noun

A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.

noun

A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.

Example sentences

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Failure on a project is not a communicable disease that spreads to other projects through developers; success is likewise.

2

There are predictive short term patterns, but once the knowledge of the patterns spreads, they start to disappear.

3

But most Danes didn't really see an issue, and considered the Danish wage spreads to be normal.

4

You're correct that without low-latency trading, markets will be less efficient in that bid-ask spreads will increase.

5

And that hate as the OP mentions spreads through to other subreddits and undermines the integrity of the site.

6

Water spreads from source blocks towards the lowest point in the area and loses one level (from 7) each step.

7

If a digital object is good, then copying it duplicates and spreads that good.

8

So people are moving there, and so the wave of gentrification spreads outwards...

9

It is cold, so is denser than air and spreads out on the surface, and when ignited goes off with a big bang.

10

This spreads until over 100 have shut down, pledging a 24 hour blackout.

11

To answer your question, whether that state reaches Europe depends on whether the US' war of the rich on the poor spreads to Europe.

12

Advertisement for a project like this is unfair and spreads confusion.

Quote examples

1

Some of it in my opinion is quite cultural, not purely psychological, based on background expectations of what wage spreads "should" be.

2

Troll culture (4chan, Autoadmit) has a sort of "secret society" flavor to it-- catchy memes and in-jokes, plus new words, much of which spreads out into the mainstream.

3

In the mid-2000s a phrase kept getting banded around in investment management "The search for yield." As interest rates were so low, as were credit spreads, there was a big demand for anything that gave some kind of yield.

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The sudden change is another factor: if people had "always" been making much more similar incomes, or if the company gradually/quietly narrowed pay spreads over time, the results may be different than a sudden change from large pay disparities to much smaller ones.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use spreads in a sentence?

Failure on a project is not a communicable disease that spreads to other projects through developers; success is likewise.

What does spreads mean?

The act of spreading.

What part of speech is spreads?

spreads is commonly used as noun.