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 | |