wide
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Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Simple pronunciation
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
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1. 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
1. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
"We walked down a wide corridor."
2. Large in scope.
"The inquiry had a wide remit."
3. Operating at the side of the playing area.
"That team needs a decent wide player."
4. 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. Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
6. (now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
"The wide, lifeless expanse."
7. Located some distance away; distant, far.
8. Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
9. Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
"a wide character; a wide stream"
1. Extensively
"He travelled far and wide."
2. Completely
"He was wide awake."
3. Away from a given goal
"A few shots were fired but they all went wide."
4. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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