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Definition wide
Etymology
From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English w?d (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *w?daz, from Proto-Indo-European *w?- (“apart, asunder, in two”), from Proto-Indo-European *weye- (“to drive, separate”). Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víđur (“wide”), Latin d?vid? (“separate, sunder”), Latin v?t? (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.
Adjective
wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)
- Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- Large in scope.
- (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
- On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
- (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
- (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
- Remote; distant; far.
- (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
- (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
Adverb
wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)
- extensively
- completely
- away from a given goal
- So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
Noun
wide (plural wides)
- (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
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