The act of spreading. • Something that has been spread. • 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. • Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams. • A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships. • Food 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. • A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average. • 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. • An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies. • The difference between bidding and asking price. • The difference between the prices of two similar items. • 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. • The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.