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spread out

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fanned, spread-out(a)verb

    especially spread in a fan shape

    "the peacock's fanned tail"; "the spread-out cards"

  2. diffuse, spread, spread out, fan outverb

    move outward

    "The soldiers fanned out"

  3. string out, spread outverb

    set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series

    "the houses were strung out in a long row"

  4. spread, scatter, spread outverb

    strew or distribute over an area

    "He spread fertilizer over the lawn"; "scatter cards across the table"

  5. expand, spread outverb

    extend in one or more directions

    "The dough expands"

  6. turn out, splay, spread out, rotateverb

    turn outward

    "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"

  7. disperse, dissipate, scatter, spread outverb

    move away from each other

    "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";

  8. unfold, spread, spread out, openverb

    spread out or open from a closed or folded state

    "open the map"; "spread your arms"

Wiktionary

  1. spread outverb

    Become further apart.

  2. spread outverb

    To place items further apart.

ChatGPT

  1. spread out

    "Spread out" generally refers to extending, arranging, or being distributed over a wide or increasing area. It can also mean to extend or arrange parts or elements of something over a larger or wider area, to become dispersed or distributed, or to make something cover a wider area.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of spread out in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of spread out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of spread out in a Sentence

  1. Jake Jones:

    This year there were too many of us to fit into one Chick-fil-A we spread out into twogroups, poland, India, Australia, Colombia, France, England, Mexico, Canada, Singapore, Albania and the United States were all represented this year.

  2. Daniel Kerstein:

    For U.S. depositories, if you're trying to drive growth, how much cost can you continue to cut ? , ultimately, you need scale to spread out your costs.

  3. Michel Yao:

    When we cannot access the community, we cannot perform surveillance activities including vaccination that has been one of the key innovations that help us really to stop the spread out of this country to others.

  4. Donald Trump:

    The United States can not continue to be the policeman of the world, we are spread out all over the world. We are in countries most people haven't even heard about. Frankly, it's ridiculous.

  5. Ayesha Curry:

    It's going to end up being the smallest Thanksgiving we've ever had at home, we typically average 16-plus and this year we have eight people. Everybody is spread out this year. People got married over the summer, so everybody is kind of doing their own thing.


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