Difference between Ranch and Spread

What is the difference between Ranch and Spread?

Ranch as a verb is to operate a ranch; engage in ranching. while Spread as a verb is to stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.

Ranch

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To operate a ranch; engage in ranching. To work on a ranch

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock. A small farm that cultivates vegetables and/or livestock. A house or property on a ranch land. A type of salad dressing.

Example sentence: I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

Spread

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.To open one's legs.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of spreading or something that has been spread.An expanse of land.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 onto a slice of bread etc.An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.A numerical difference.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.

Example sentence: The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

We hope you now know whether to use Ranch or Spread in your sentence.

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