English-Spanish translations for spread

• extender
  Su apoyo nos ha ayudado a extender la paz, la estabilidad y la prosperidad en Europa. Your support has helped to spread peace, stability and prosperity in Europe.
  Está concebido para extender la prosperidad, reforzar la solidaridad y ofrecer seguridad. It is designed to spread prosperity, strengthen solidarity and offer security.
  ¿Es este enfoque algo aislado o se trata de una iniciativa que se pretende extender a todos los Estados miembros de la UE? Is this an isolated case, or is the initiative likely to spread to all Member States?
• esparcir
  La situación también afectará a su capacidad para esparcir estiércol y tendrá reflejo en sus pérdidas generales. It will also affect their ability to spread slurry, and just the general losses that they have.
  Ahora será más fácil para el agricultor esparcir el estiércol en sus campos que procesarlo para producir biogás. It would now therefore be easier for a farmer to spread slurry on his fields than to process it into biogas.
  Esta organización subversiva pretendía desarmar a Gran Bretaña unilateralmente en plena Guerra Fría y esparcir la alarma y el desaliento. This subversive organisation sought to disarm Britain unilaterally at the height of the Cold War, and spread alarm and despondency.
• alimento untable
• desplegar
• difundir
  Es necesario, además, difundir una información exacta entre los consumidores. It is also necessary to spread exact information among consumers.
  No debe difundir propaganda política. It should not spread political propaganda.
  No hemos sabido difundir las lecciones y los valores aprendidos de ese conflicto. We have failed to spread the lessons and values learned from that conflict.
• diseminar
  En el escenario mundial tenemos que diseminar la paz y la estabilidad. On the world stage we must spread peace and stability.
  También significa diseminar la prosperidad y las oportunidades en todo el mundo. It also means spreading prosperity and opportunity around the world.
  Esto no sería sensato, pues tenemos que diseminar nuestra ayuda de forma más general.That would not be sensible. We have to spread our assistance more generally than that.
• dispersar
  Los complejos derivados financieros que debían dispersar los riesgos en el mundo, en su lugar han extendido el contagio. Complex products like banking derivatives, which were supposed to disperse risk around the world, have instead spread contagion.
• divulgar
  Nosotros los políticos tenemos que divulgar lo que sabemos. We politicians must spread our knowledge.
  La Comisión debería divulgar información clara sobre cómo se propaga la enfermedad. The Commission should disseminate clear information on how the disease spreads.
  Después está el establecimiento de una red europea de asesores principales para divulgar sus conocimientos. Then there is the establishment of a European network of senior consultants to spread their knowledge.
• repartir
  Habría que dar cabida al hecho de que los Estados miembros más pequeños tienen menos espacio para repartir la carga. Allowance should be made for the fact that smaller Member States have less room to spread the load.
  ¿Quién asumirá esos costes y cómo se repartirá la carga entre los Estados miembros en una época de restricciones del presupuesto comunitario? Who will bear these costs and how will the burden be spread among the Member States at a time of restricted Community budget?
  Los países ricos del mundo tienen el deber moral de repartir parte de su prosperidad a los países en desarrollo. The world's rich countries have a moral duty to spread a part of their prosperity to developing countries.
• tender
• untar
  Bien como crema para untar rodajas de pan, bien como bebida, parecía imparable su marcha triunfal a través de las estanterías de los supermercados. Whether it takes the form of a sandwich spread or a drink, its triumphant progress along the supermarket shelves seemed to be unstoppable.

Definition of spread

• To stretch out, open out so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
• To extend ; to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
• To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
• To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
• To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make widely known or present.
• To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
• To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
• To cover with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
• To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions
• To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
• The act of spreading
• Something that has been spread
• 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
• Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams
• An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page
• A numerical difference
• The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another 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
• The difference between bidding and asking price
• An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points

Examples

• He spread his newspaper on the table
• I spread my arms wide and welcomed him home
• I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor
• The missionaries quickly spread their new message across the country
• I dropped my glass; the water spread quickly over the tiled floor
• She liked to spread butter on her toast while it was still hot
• He always spreads his toast with peanut butter and strawberry jam
• to spread a table

Related words

• widespread
• bedspread
• spreading
• spreadsheet
• manspreading
• super-spreader
• wingspread
• overspread
• spreader