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Texas coach Mack Brown, whose Longhorns rank second nationally in total defense and ninth in scoring defense, said counteracting the spread has been a focus in recruiting.

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  1. transitive verb To open to a fuller extent or width; stretch: spread out the tablecloth; a bird spreading its wings.
  2. transitive verb To make wider the gap between; move farther apart: spread her fingers.
  3. transitive verb To distribute over a surface in a layer: spread varnish on the steps.
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  • The word spread, and before the day was through some thirty pilots had gone to help in the fields. —  The Divine Wind
  • If they all did the same work, they'd each get 20 points, but the spread is always uneven, she said.
  • If it were true, you would have to wonder if an exotic virus which football scouts are particularly susceptible to had spread from the Spanish capital to northern Italy. —  Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
  • The fantastic dress she's wearing in the spread is a tulle number with organza flowers by —  FASHION INDIE » FASHION PORN
  • But, I also think the spread is a satirical send up of the expectations that mothers live in service to their children, to sublimate their desires and identities to children. —  Lingual Tremors
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English spreden, from Old English -sprǣdan (as in tōsprǣdan, to spread out); see sper- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English spreden (preterit spredde, spradde, spredd, spred, past participle spredd, spred, sprad, y-sprad), from Anglo-Saxon sprǣdan = Dutch spreiden, spreijen, = MLG, spreden, spreiden, Low German spreden, spreen, spreien = Old High German spreitan, Middle High German G. spreiten = Norwegian spreida, dial, spreie = Danish sprede, extend, spread; causal of the more orig. verb Middle High German sprīten, spriden = Swedish sprida, spread; cf. Icelandic sprita, sprawl. Not connected, as is often said, with broad (Anglo-Saxon brǣdan, make broad, etc.).
  2. from spread, v.
  3. . from Middle English spred, sprad; past participle of spread, v.
 

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