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单词 spread head
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spread headn.

Brit. /ˈsprɛd hɛd/, U.S. /ˈsprɛd ˌhɛd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: spread adj., head n.1
Etymology: < spread adj. + head n.1
U.S.
1. A hognose snake (genus Heterodon), which characteristically raises and inflates its head and neck and hisses loudly when threatened. Also spread-head snake.Cf. spread adder n. at spread adj. Compounds 2, spreading adder n. at spreading adj. Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Heterodon (hog-nose)
hognose1737
hog-nosed snake?a1808
spreading adder1836
adder1842
spread head1844
puff adder1882
blowing adder1884
spread adder1902
1844 J. Lewis Young Kate I. xi. 83 'Twas like the mixin' of a blacksmith's bellows and the hissing of a thousand spreadhead snakes.
1891 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican 3 Sept. 2/4 Howard Davis Jr...declares he plowed up and killed..38 spread-head snakes.
1958 R. Conant Field Guide Reptiles & Amphibians U.S. viii. 138 These [sc. hognose snakes] are the ‘spreadheads’ that flatten their heads and necks, hiss loudly, and inflate their bodies with air.
2012 S. Simon Strange Creatures 40 Its [sc. the eastern hognose snake's] local names include puff adder, sand viper, and spreadhead.
2. Journalism. A heading in a distinctive or large typeface, a display heading. Now rare.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [noun] > headline > types of
subhead1744
side head1822
side heading1836
subheading1842
spread head1872
scare-head1887
cross-head1888
scare-line1892
scare-heading1894
cross-heading1898
one-liner1904
streamer1909
banner1913
screamer1926
drophead1930
1872 Radical Jan. 70 How the pen runs through divorces and puns, And doings of forger and tramp! It is here a spread-head for a murder or wed- Ding [sic] in high life.
1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 443/2 Ocean races which glow in paragraphs and flame in spread heads of newspapers thankful for something new.
1920 W. W. Williams Goshen St. vi. 84 The result was a spread head on the front page.
1976–7 Reading Res. Q. 12 268 The writer's scale value of headlines as classified by Stempel, including the streamer, spread head , 2 column head, [etc.].

Derivatives

ˈspread-head v. Journalism (now rare) transitive to print with or under a display heading; usually in passive.
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1884 J. D. J. Kelley Amer. Yachts x. 157 Does he not see himself spread-headed in the newspapers, and hailed as the effulgent light of yachting worlds?
1901 Navy & Army Illustr. 26 Oct. 122/1 Any slight mishap of a kind that would pass unnoticed in ordinary circumstances is billed and ‘spread-headed’ as ‘another accident to a destroyer’.
1932 C. H. Fort Wild Talents xix. 207 In the New York Tribune..Dr. Charles B. Davenport..received only four inches of space for one of those scares that used to be spread-headed—unknown disease that may wipe out all humanity.
spread-headed adj. Journalism Obsolete printed with or under a display heading.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [adjective] > relating to headline > having type of headline
scare-headed1889
spread-headed1923
1923 O. G. Villard Some Newspapers 152 It has not been able to rise without the vulgar comic section or the Sunday pictorial, and the usual spread-headed Sunday features.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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