spreader
noun
spread·er
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Definition of spreader
Examples of spreader in a Sentence
Mosquito are spreaders of disease.
Recent Examples on the Web
Grab a baguette and some mustard, then throw your jars, some spreaders and spoons in a cooler and go. — Lisa Futterman, chicagotribune.com, "How to Instant Pot your picnic, with recipes for pate, savory cheesecake and dessert," 18 July 2019 Someone entered an unlocked garage in the 900 block of North Taylor Avenue and stole two weed-whackers, a set of jumper cables and a spreader valued at $270 at 6:45 a.m. June 16. — Pioneer Press Staff, chicagotribune.com, "Police: Oak Park resident has necklace, cash stolen while walking along Harlem Avenue," 23 June 2019 Winning the race to PCI Express 4 Under the heat spreader, AMD officials told us the 12-core Ryzen 9 will be built using two Client Computing Devices (or CCDs) while the two 8-core Ryzen 7 chips will be built using single CCDs. — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, "AMD flexes 7nm muscle with a 12-core Ryzen 9 CPU and Radeon RX 5000 graphics cards," 26 May 2019 March-April If crabgrass is present, use a walk-behind drop spreader to apply a pre-emergence crabgrass preventative agent. — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, "How to Get Rid of Lawn Weeds," 19 Apr. 2019 Usually, public agencies deploy an army of plows and salt spreaders ahead of storms. — Paul Berger, WSJ, "New York City and New Jersey Take Heat Over Response to Snowstorm," 16 Nov. 2018 Gifted niceties such as ice buckets and cheese spreaders found new homes. — Bonnie S. Benwick, The Seattle Times, "Kitchen confidential: How I downsized the most important room in the house," 24 Sep. 2018 This, the theory goes, conducts heat better than the thermal glue that Intel used on previous processors under the metal heat spreader that covers and protects the chip. — Richard Baguley, Ars Technica, "Review: Intel’s 9th Gen Core i9 9900K processor hits 5GHz—just at a price," 17 Nov. 2018 To that end, it's built a thermal spreader heat sink that's three times larger than in the S9+ to cool down serious graphics loads, delivering 20 percent better cooling performance. — Michael Simon, PCWorld, "The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 has a better S Pen, smarter camera, and astronomical price," 9 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'spreader.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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spreader
noun
English Language Learners Definition of spreader
: a person or thing that spreads something
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