Spread Over

Definition: Spread Over

Spread Over

Verb

1. Form a cover over; "The grass covered the grave".

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Synonym: Spread Over

Crosswords: Spread Over

Books

• The Melanesian languages : a linguistic survey of the groups of dialects and languages spread over the islands of Melanesia comprising their comparative grammar, numerals, vocabularies, and phonology, and the grammars of some thirty-five languages, preced (reference)

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Moored to a Western Rivers' shoreline, during the Civil War. Note awning spread over the ship's foredeck, and bell at the front of her superstructure. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed on the Western Rivers in 1862-63. Note laundry drying on lines rigged from her mainmast, and awnings spread over her upper deck. Credit: NAVY.

In the middle west chamber, Gatun Locks, while transiting the Panama Canal to the Pacific on 26 July 1919. Note awning spread over the battleship's foredeck. Credit: NAVY.

Officers posing on deck and atop the turret, while the ship was in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, in 1865. The Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Edward Barrett, is seated on the turret, in center. Note awning spread over the turret and conning tower, ship's bell mounted on the turret side, marks from Confederate shot hits on the turret armor, and additional armor plate laid on the deck. Guns on field carriages are 12-pounder Dahlgren howitzers. Turret gun to the right is a XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore. The other turret gun is a XV-inch Dahlgren smoothbore. Credit: NAVY.

Probably photographed in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in early 1865. Note awnings spread over her decks and anti-mine "torpedo rake" deployed at her bow. Credit: NAVY.

One of a Mexican field gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. The young plants are "capped" with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and accelerate growth. The laborers' wages are thirty cents an hour. I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These men are thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. Wages thirty cents an hour. These young plants are "capped" with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and to accel. Credit: Library of Congress.

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My Lady turned her head away to conceal the broad grin of triumph that spread over her vast face, like a ripple on a lake.

A contagion of veneration had, in the course of six or seven years, step by step, spread over the whole country.

They walked to the tent, tarpaulin spread over a rope.

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Health

Further, the diagnostic criteria require either a clustering of at least four attacks spread over a 4-week period or one or more attacks followed by at least 1 month of fearful anticipation of experiencing more such attacks. (references)

Thus, decreases in doses may be spread over weeks or months, with larger decrements early in the withdrawal phase and smaller decrements once the daily dose becomes 50 mg or less. Discontinuation of lithium can be done abruptly or spread out over a couple of weeks. (references)

Business

The remaining franchise leaders in terms of the number of new openings registered are spread over diverse sectors. (references)

Korea also is in desperate need of cost-effective alternatives to using cover soil that, usually, are spread over landfills to mitigate odor problems. (references)

They are 15 founder members that spread over the U.S. and the Middle East. Currently OPSTEC has only one campus in Lahore but have plans for future expansion. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

About 30 groups of various cultures and dialects are spread over the highland territory. (references)

Liberia

Ethnic groups: Kpelle 20%, Bassa 16%, Gio 8%, Kru 7%, 49% spread over 12 other ethnic groups. (references)

China

Spread over a population of 1.2 billion, this does not represent a large amount of disposable income for the people of China. (references)

Trade

India

To facilitate greater flexibility and to attract foreign direct investment and capital intensive units into these SEZ's, amortization of the value of imported capital goods will be spread over a period of eight years instead of five years. (references)

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Czech

rozvrhnout práci, rozvrh práce. (various references)

Hungarian

átterjed (to metastasize, to spread over). (various references)

Indonesian

berjalar. (various references)

Pig Latin

eadspray overay

Scottish

sladhaigeadh (a kind of custard spread over bread). (various references)

Swedish

slå ut (bud, burst, erupt, knock out, pour out, smash, stump out). (various references)

Turkish

istila etmek (flood, infest, invade, irrupt). (various references)

confudisset, confudisti, confudistis, confudit, confundam, confundamur, confundamus, confundantur, confundar, confundaris, confundas, confundat, confundatur, confunde, confundebat, confundemini, confundens, confundentur, confundere, confunderis, confundet, confundetur, confundimini, confundit, confunditis, confunditur, confundor, confusa, confusi, confusum, confusus, perduco, perduco perduxi, perduco, perduxi, perductum, perduxi. (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: overspread.

-1 letter: depravers, eavesdrop, overdares, pervaders.

-2 letters: depraver, depraves, eardrops, overdare, overdear, pervader, pervades, preavers, reproved, reproves, respread, spreader, vaporers.

-3 letters: adorers, adverse, averred, deposer, deprave, dorpers, drapers, drosera, drovers, eardrop, evaders, oversad, oversea, pervade, preaver, provers, readers, reapers, reavers, redears, redrove, repaved, repaves, reposed, reposer, reprove, rereads, reredos, respade, reverso, savored, savorer, sparred, speared.

+1 letter: overpraised, overspreads.

+2 letters: eavesdropper, overpersuade.

+3 letters: eavesdroppers, overpersuaded, overpersuades, overspreading, videographers.

+4 letters: overpersuading.