Spread may refer to:
- Statistical dispersion
- Spread (food), an edible paste put on other foods
- the score difference being wagered on in spread betting
- the measure of line inclination in rational trigonometry
- Temperature-Dewpoint spread, dew point depression
- Two-page spread a redundant term, also simply called "spread", referring to two adjacent, facing pages in a magazine or other publication with conjoined or connected content
- In finance, the difference in price between related securities,
- Bid-offer spread, between the buying and selling price of a commodity or security
- Spread trade, between two related securities or commodities
- Option-adjusted spread, on mortgage backed securities where the borrower has the right to repay in full
- Yield spread, difference in percentage rate of return of two instruments
- Yield curve spread, on mortgage backed securities
- Credit spread (bond), on bonds
- a term used for speed reading in policy debate.
- The laying of Tarot cards for divinatory uses.
- A word used sexually to describe the displaying of a female's vagina and anus when she is bent over.
- Spread (film), a 2009 film
- Spread, West Virginia
Famous quotes containing the word spreads:
“The worst of crimes. All the other crimes are virtues beside it: all the other dishonors are chivalry itself by comparison. Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Imagination at wit’s end spreads its sad wings.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it
pours in the great sea.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)