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spread 1 a : the difference between any two prices for similar articles [the between the list price and the market price of an article] b : the difference between the highest and lowest prices of a product or security for a given period c : the difference between bid and asked prices (as of a stock) 2 a : a simultaneous put option and call option in which the put price and the call price differ so that no profit is made unless the price falls below or rises above the put or call price respectively by more than enough to cover the cost of the option ;also : the difference between the put price and call price b : a transaction in which a participant hedges with simultaneous long and short options in different commodities or different delivery dates in the same commodity 3 : an arbitrage transaction operated by buying and selling simultaneously in two markets when there is an abnormal difference in price between the two markets ;also : the difference in price 4 : the differenc...
False news, spreading
False news, spreading, to make discord between the sovereign and nobility, or concerning any great man of the realm, was a misdemeanour, punish-able at Common Law by fine and imprison-ment; which was confirmed by 3 Edw. 1 (Stat. West. Prim.), c. 34; 2 Rich. 2, st. 1, c. 5; and 12 Rich. 2, c. 11, all repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 59). See SEDITION, and also Public Order Act, 1936....
Spread-over
Spread-over, means the period between the commencement of duty on any day and the termination of duty on that day. [Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961 (27 of 1961), s. 2 (k)]...
Spreading false news
Spreading false news, concerning any great man of the realm, punishable at Common Law, and by the repealed 2 Ric. 2, st. 1, c. 5. And see SCANDALUM MAGNATUM....
Disseminate
to spread around widely to sow broadcast or as seed to scatter for growth and propagation like seed to spread abroad to diffuse as principles ideas opinions and errors are disseminated when they are spread abroad for propagation...
Expand
Expand, means (1) v.t. spread or stretch (a thing) out. (2) become extended: spread out, unfold. (3) v.t. give full expression to. (4) v.t. widen the boundaries of, increase the area, scope etc., enlarge, dilate. (5) v.t. become grater in area, bulk, capacity etc.; become larger: increase the scope of one's activity or the scale of operations of something: take in or go into a new area of activity, New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, see also State of Gujarat v. Saurashtra Cement & Chemical Industries Ltd., (2003) 2 SCC 394.Means to become greater or bigger in size of spread out, State of Gujarat v. Saurashtra Cement & Chemical Industries Ltd., (2003) 2 SCC 394.Means 'tending to promote some proposed or desired object, 'fit' or 'suitable for the purpose' proper under the circumstances, Webster's Encyclopaedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language....
Circumfusion
The act of pouring or spreading round the state of being spread round...
Diffuse
To pour out and cause to spread as a fluid to cause to flow on all sides to send out or extend in all directions to spread to circulate to disseminate to scatter as to diffuse information...
Diffusive
Having the quality of diffusing capable of spreading every way by flowing spreading widely widely reaching copious diffuse...
Display
To unfold to spread wide to expand to stretch out to spread...
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