[
  {
    "word": "spread",
    "phonetic": "/sp\u0279\u025bd/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/sp\u0279\u025bd/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/spread-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1244076",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "The act of spreading.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Something that has been spread.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An expanse of land.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.",
            "synonyms": [
              "swole"
            ],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A numerical difference.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The difference between bidding and asking price.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The difference between the prices of two similar items.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "straddle",
          "swole"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He spread his newspaper on the table."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I spread my arms wide and welcomed him home."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The missionaries quickly spread their new message across the country."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I dropped my glass; the water spread quickly over the tiled floor."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "She liked to spread butter on her toast while it was still hot."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He always spreads his toast with peanut butter and strawberry jam."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to spread a table"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To open one\u2019s legs, especially for sexual favours.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "circulate",
          "diffuse",
          "disseminate",
          "propagate",
          "put about"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spread"
    ]
  }
]