Spread one's wings

Definition

spread /spred / v ( pt, pp spread ) ၁။ (က) ~ A on B သုတ္သည္။ ခင္းသည္။ spread butter on bread/glue on paper. (ခ) ~ B with A သုတ္သည္။ ဖံုး သည္။ spread bread with butter. (ဂ) သုတ္ႏိုင္သည္။ Butter spreads more easily when it's softer. ၂။ ~ sth (out) (on/over sth) ျဖန္႔သည္။ ျဖန္႔ခင္းသည္။ ခင္းသည္။ The bird spread its wings. ❍ spread a cloth on the table ❍ spread out one's arms ❍ spread a map out on the floor. ၃။ ပ်ံ႕သည္။ ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႔သည္။ ကူးစက္သည္။ ျဖန္႔သည္။ The disease is spreading fast. ❍ Use of computers spread rapidly during that period. ❍ Fear spread through the village. ❍ The strike has already spread to other factories. ❍ Flies spread disease. ❍ He spread the news around the town. ၄။ ျဖန္႔သည္။ Settlers soon spread inland/across the country. ❍ The company gradually spread its branches all over the continent. ၅။ ျဖန္႔ၾကက္သည္။ က်ယ္ေျပာသည္။ ျပန္႔သည္။ ေပက်ံသည္။ The desert spreads for hundreds of miles. ❍ The city has spread into what used to be countryside. ❍ Water had leaked out and was spreading over the floor. ❍ Take care not to spread that dirt (on the carpet). ၆။ ~ sth (over sth) ဆန္႔သည္။ ဆြဲသည္။ spread the payments (over three months) ❍ a course of studies spread over three years. n ၁။ (usu sing ) ~ (of sth) (က) ျဖန္႔ကားႏိုင္ေသာ အတိုင္း အတာ။ အက်ယ္။ ျဗက္။ the spread of a bird's wings. (ခ) အျပန္႔အျပင္အျဖစ္တည္ရိွေသာ အရာ။ ျပင္က်ယ္ (သို႔) အခ်ိန္ အတိုင္းအတာ။ a huge spread of unspoilt countryside ❍ a spread of 100 years. (ဂ) ကြဲျပားမႈ။ The survey reveals a wide spread of opinion. ၂။ [U] ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႔မႈ။ ကူးစက္ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႔မႈ။ တိုးခ်ဲ႕ျပန္႔ကားျခင္း။ the spread of disease/crime/education ❍ the spread of a city into the surrounding areas. See also MIDDLE-AGED SPREAD ၃။ [C] မ်က္ႏွာျပည့္ (သတင္း၊ ေဆာင္းပါး စသည္)။ a double-page spread. See also CENTRE SPREAD ၄။ [C] ( infml ) တည္ခင္း ထားေသာ စားဖြယ္။ We were treated to a magnificent spread. ၅။ [U, C] ဒိန္ခဲအေပ်ာ့ကဲ့သို႔ ေပါင္မုန္႔တြင္ သုတ္စားစရာ။ chocolate spread ❍ cheese spreads. ၆။ [C] ( US infml ) က်ယ္ေျပာေသာ လယ္၊ ၿခံ။ They've got a huge spread in California. See also BEDSPREAD ❏ spread oneself [ IDM ] ေျခေညာင္းလက္ဆန္႔၊ ေျခဆင္းလဲ လူေနသည္။ Since there was no one else in the compartment I was able to spread myself. ❏ spread-eagle v ေျခကားရားလက္ကားရား ျဖစ္သြားသည္ (သို႔) ေျခပစ္လက္ပစ္ေနသည္။ The blow spread-eagled him against the wall. ❍ Sunbathers lay spread-eagled on the grass. ❏ spreader n ၁။ သုတ္လိမ္းရန္သံုးရေသာအရာ။ သုတ္တံ။ a flexible spreader for glue. ၂။ သတင္း၊ အတင္း စသည္ျဖန္႔သူ။ [ဗန္း] ေရႊေမာင္း။ a spreader of gossip. ❏ spread like wildfire [ IDM ] ေတာမီးပမာ တစ္မုဟုတ္ခ်င္း ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႔သြားသည္။ The news spread like wildfire. ❏ spread one’s net [ IDM ] ဩဇာအာဏာ ျဖန္႔ၾကက္သည္။ ❏ spread (sb/oneself) out [ PHRV ] လူခ်င္းခ်ဲလိုက္သည္။ The search party spread out over the moor. ❍ Don't all sit together, spread yourselves out. ❏ spread one's wings [ IDM ] ဘဝတြင္ စတင္ေျခခ်သည္။ [ ဥ ] အပ်ံသင္သည္။ We hope college life will help him to spread his wings a bit.

Examples

1. UN leaders hope to prevent the fighting from spreading.
2. Rain will spread from the west this evening.
3. Anti-globalization protests spread rapidly across the globe.
4. Within less than an hour
5. the fire had spread to the fuel stores.
6. She heard a shot
7. then saw a dark-red stain spreading across his shirt.
8. He let a slow smile spread across his face.
9. Cholera spread quickly through the refugee camp.
10. Soldiers returning from the war soon spread the disease through most of the region.
11. A computer virus that spread rapidly through users’ email systems
12. [spread something on/over something] : We spread the blanket on the grass and sat down on it.
13. The map was spread on the floor.
14. Butter spreads more easily when it hasn’t been in the fridge.
15. [spread something on something] : Maureen spread jam on her toast.
16. [spread something with something] : First
17. spread the bread with mayonnaise.
18. We will bring in extra staff to spread the workload.
19. [spread something over something] : You can spread your payments over two
20. three
21. or five years.
22. Attacks of the illness were spread over a three-year period.
23. Smythe spread his financial risk by investing in a wide range of businesses.
24. [be spread over/across something] : There are 54 community colleges spread across California.
25. Indonesia is a nation of over 200 million people
26. spread over 17
27. 000 islands.
28. Someone has been spreading nasty rumours about Stella’s private life.
29. [spread to] : News of the attack has already spread to the islands.
30. First
31. lie on the floor with your arms spread wide.
32. The bird spread its wings and flew away.
33. Smiling at people was Debra’s way of spreading a little happiness.
34. A gang of drug dealers was spreading terror in the neighbourhood.