Broad vs. Spread — What's the Difference?

Wide in extent from side to side

Open out (something) so as to extend its surface area, width, or length

Large in expanse; spacious

Extend over a large or increasing area

Having a certain width from side to side

Apply (a substance) to an object or surface in an even layer

Full; open

Lay (a table) for a meal.

Covering a wide scope; general

The fact or process of spreading over an area

Liberal; tolerant

The extent, width, or area covered by something

Relating to or covering the main facts or the essential points

The range or variety of something

Plain and clear; obvious

A soft paste that can be applied in a layer to bread or other food

Vulgar; ribald

An article or advertisement covering several columns or pages of a newspaper or magazine, especially one on two facing pages

Strikingly regional or dialectal

A large and impressively elaborate meal

(Linguistics) Pronounced with the tongue placed low and flat and with the oral cavity wide open, like the a in father.

A bedspread

A wide flat part, as of one's hand.

To open to a fuller extent or width; stretch

Offensive Slang A woman or girl.

To make wider the gap between; move farther apart

Fully; completely.

To distribute over a surface in a layer

Wide in extent or scope.

To cover with a layer

Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

To distribute widely

Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.

To make a wide or extensive arrangement of

Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

To exhibit or display the full extent of

Plain; evident.

To cause to become widely seen or known; scatter or disseminate

General rather than specific.

To prepare (a table) for eating; set.

(writing) Unsubtle; obvious.

To arrange (food or a meal) on a table.

Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

To flatten (a rivet end, for example) by pounding.

(dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.

To be extended or enlarged

(of an accent) Strongly regional.

To move over an area, be distributed, or be widely dispersed

(Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

To become known or prevalent over a wide area

(UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.

To be exhibited, displayed, or visible in broad or full extent

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

To become or admit of being distributed in a layer

A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.

To become separated; be forced farther apart

A kind of floodlight.

The act or process of spreading

A playing card.

Dissemination, as of news; diffusion.

(dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.

An open area of land; an expanse.

A woman or girl.

A ranch, farm, or estate.

Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; - opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

The extent or limit to which something is or can be spread

Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.

A cloth covering for a bed, table, or other piece of furniture.

Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

(Informal) An abundant meal laid out on a table.

Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; - applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.

A food to be spread on bread or crackers.

Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

Two facing pages of a magazine, newspaper, or book, considered as a unit.

Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.

An article or advertisement running across two or more columns of a newspaper or magazine.

Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

A difference, as between two figures or totals

Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.

A position taken in two or more options or futures contracts in order to profit from a change in their relative prices.

Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.

The difference between the price asked and bid for a particular security.

Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.

The difference in yields between two fixed-income securities, as between short-term and long-term bonds.

The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.

A number of points offered to equalize the chances of winning in a wager on a competition, usually between sports teams. Also called point spread.

The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.

Wingspread.

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

(transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.

A woman, especially one who is sexually promiscuous; - usually considered offensive.

(transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.

Slang term for a woman;

(transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.

Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other;

(intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.

Broad in scope or content;

(transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.

Not detailed or specific;

(intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.

Lacking subtlety; obvious;

(transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.

Being at a peak or culminating point;

(transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.

Very large in expanse or scope;

To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.

(of speech) heavily and noticeably regional;

To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.

Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness;

The act of spreading.

Something that has been spread.

(cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.

An expanse of land.

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

A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).

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

(bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.

(military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.

Improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.

An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.

Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.

A numerical difference.

The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.

The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.

The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.

The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.

(trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.

(trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.

(finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.

(geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.

The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.

To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.

To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or greater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.

To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; - often accompanied by abroad.

To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.

To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.

To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.

To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.

To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.

To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.

To be made known more extensively, as news.

To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.

Extent; compass.

Expansion of parts.

A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.

A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.

A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.

An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.

An arbitrage transaction operated by buying and selling simultaneously in two separate markets, as Chicago and New York, when there is an abnormal difference in price between the two markets. It is called a back spreadwhen the difference in price is less than the normal one.

Surface in proportion to the depth of a cut stone.

Process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space

A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures;

Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)

A haphazard distribution in all directions

A tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers

A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed;

Two facing pages of a book or other publication

The expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age);

Decorative cover for a bed

Act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time

Distribute or disperse widely;

Become distributed or widespread;

Spread across or over;

Spread out or open from a closed or folded state;

Cause to become widely known;

Become widely known and passed on;

Strew or distribute over an area;

Move outward;

Cover by spreading something over;

Distribute over a surface in a layer;

Distributed or spread over a considerable extent;

Prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out;

Fully extended in width;