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  • 11spreading —   Extending out over a wide area; expansive, not upright; in cycads, used to describe the natural orientation (or habit) of the most recent crown or flush of leaves, e.g. the crown of Ceratozamia latifolia or Dioon tomasellii.   Cf. arching,… …

    Expanded glossary of Cycad terms

  • 12spread out — I ADJ GRADED: usu v link ADJ If people or things are spread out, they are a long way apart. The Kurds are spread out across five nations. II 1) PHRASAL VERB If people, animals, or vehicles spread out, they move apart from each other. [V P] Felix… …

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  • 13spread out — phrasal verb Word forms spread out : present tense I/you/we/they spread out he/she/it spreads out present participle spreading out past tense spread out past participle spread out 1) [intransitive] if people in a group spread out, they move away… …

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  • 14stretching out — flattening, extending, spreading out …

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  • 15The Colour Out of Space — For the fictional being related to this article, see Colour out of space (species). The Colour Out of Space Author H. P. Lovecraft …

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  • 16seafloor spreading hypothesis — ▪ Earth science       theory that oceanic (oceanic ridge) crust forms along submarine mountain zones, known collectively as the midocean ridge system, and spreads out laterally away from them. This idea played a pivotal role in the development of …

    Universalium

  • 17Neon color spreading — example Neon color spreading is an optical illusion in which a bright color appears to spread out over a white area from bright visual contours.[1] References …

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  • 18Income Spreading — A tax reduction strategy that is typically used by people with highly volatile incomes to reduce the overall marginal tax rate paid on a large sum of income. This strategy involves particularly large sources of income and dividing the amount… …

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  • 19stretched out — Synonyms and related words: deltoid, dragged out, drawn, drawn out, drawn out, elongated, extended, fan shape, fan shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, flabelliform, flared, flaring, interminable, languishing, lasting, lengthened, lingering, long,… …

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  • 20pooped out — adj exhausted, out of breath. The word is probably an imitation of the sound of puffing and blowing, although there is a theory that it derives from British sail ors slang for a ship being swamped by a poop wave. In its current sense it was… …

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