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wide

breit

Definitionen

Englisch > Deutsch
wide
1. Adjektiv:
2. [1] von großer Ausdehnung
[1] That is the widest river in this country.
Das ist der breiteste Fluss in diesem Land.
Englisch > Englisch
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. subst. (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
Deutsch > Englisch
breit
1. adj. broad, wide
eine breite Straße - a wide street
2. adj. (figuratively) wide
Die Universität bietet ein breites Spektrum von Fächern an. - The university offers a wide variety of subjects.
3. adj. (colloquial) drunk or high on marijuana; stoned
Du bist ziemlich breit. - You're pretty stoned.

Aussprache

Beispielsätze

The chest is three feet wide.

Die Truhe ist knapp einen Meter breit.
Life is not long, it is wide!

Das Leben ist nicht lang, es ist breit!
Oh! how I wish I were as tall as the other trees, then I would spread out my branches on every side, and my top would overlook the wide world.

Ach, wäre ich doch so groß wie die anderen Bäume! Dann würde ich meine Äste nach allen Seiten hin strecken, und meine Krone überblickte die weite Welt.
Do you think the road is wide enough for cars?

Denkst du, dass die Straße für Autos breit genug ist?
We accepted him with our arms open wide.

Wir haben ihn mit offenen Armen aufgenommen.