Spreading

Quick meaning: Spreading is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of spread.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of spread.

More Meanings

1. The act by which something is spread.
2. (debating slang) The act of spreading (speedreading).

Example Sentences

Small numbers [of meadowlarks] remain on farms in the southern counties throughout the winter, usually relying on fresh manure spreadings for food when snow covers the fields.

And so, unfortunately, this great and spreading network of railways, that recently showed such promise as a major instrument in the modern development of China, must be left for the time being in the melting-pot of Armageddon.

Chief among the strategies exploiting this rule was "spreading" (a combination of "speed" and "reading"), where debaters would rattle off arguments at a blistering pace. Their speeches often exceeded 300 words per minute. (A conversational pace is about 60 per minute.)

As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.

Word Forms

• spreadings

Synonyms for spreading

Depending on context, synonyms include broad, dissemination, wide, circulation, diffusive, disseminative.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disseminative, dissemination, diffusive, dispersive, scattering, wide.

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