spread-out has definitions from the field of cards
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[ adjective ] (cards) especially spread in a fan shape

Synonyms

fanned

Examples

"the peacock's fanned tail" "the spread-out cards"

Used in print

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

More_than anything , it is the therapist 's intuitive sensing of these latent meanings in the stereotype which helps these meanings to become revealed , something like a spread-out deck_of_cards , on sporadic occasions over the passage of the patient 's and his months of work together .

Related terms

distributed

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