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widely
     1. adv. commonly; generally; to a great degree
     2. adv. separated by a large distance
wide
     1. adj. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
           We walked down a wide corridor.
     2. adj. Large in scope.
           The inquiry had a wide remit.
     3. adj. (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
           That team needs a decent wide player.
     4. adj. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
           Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.
     5. adj. (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
     6. adj. (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
           The wide, lifeless expanse.
     7. adj. Remote; distant; far.
           The hut was not wide from the sea.
           The cabin is not wide from the lake.
     8. adj. (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
     9. adj. (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
           a wide character; a wide stream
     10. adv. extensively
           He travelled far and wide.
     11. adv. completely
           He was wide awake.
     12. adv. away from a given goal
           The arrow fell wide of the mark.
     13. adv. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
     14. n. (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
far
     1. adj. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) Distant.
           A far land.
     2. adj. Remote in space.
           He went to a far country.
     3. adj. Remote in time.
     4. adj. Long.
           It was a far adventure, full of danger.
     5. adj. More remote or longer of two.
           He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.
     6. adj. Extreme.
           We are on the far right on this issue.
     7. adj. Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
     8. adj. (computing, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
           far heap;  far memory; far pointer
     9. adv. Distant in space, time or degree.
           My house is quite far from the beach.  The plan is good, but it is far from being flawless.
     10. adv. To or from a great distance, time, or degree.
           You have all come far and you will go farther.
     11. adv. (with a comparative) Very much.
           He was far richer than we'd thought.
     12. n. Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
     13. n. (dialect) A litter of piglets; a farrow.
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