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Wide   /waɪd/   Listen
adjective
Wide  adj.  (compar. wider; superl. widest)  
1.
Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry. "The chambers and the stables weren wyde." "Wide is the gate... that leadeth to destruction."
2.
Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference. "This wyde world." "For sceptered cynics earth were far too wide a den." "When the wide bloom, on earth that lies, Seems of a brighter world than ours."
3.
Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding. "Men of strongest head and widest culture."
4.
Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide.
5.
Remote; distant; far. "The contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God."
6.
Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like. "Our wide expositors." "It is far wide that the people have such judgments." "How wide is all this long pretense!"
7.
On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc. "Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand." "I was but two bows wide."
8.
(Phon.) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; opposed to primary as used by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr. Sweet. The effect, as explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the relaxation or tension of the pharynx; as explained by Mr. Sweet and others, it is due to the action of the tongue.
9.
(Stock Exchanges) Having or showing a wide difference between the highest and lowest price, amount of supply, etc.; as, a wide opening; wide prices, where the prices bid and asked differ by several points. Note: Wide is often prefixed to words, esp. to participles and participial adjectives, to form self-explaining compounds; as, wide-beaming, wide-branched, wide-chopped, wide-echoing, wide-extended, wide-mouthed, wide-spread, wide-spreading, and the like.
Far and wide. See under Far.
Wide gauge. See the Note under Cauge, 6.


adverb
Wide  adv.  
1.
To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide. "(I) went wyde in this world, wonders to hear."
2.
So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
3.
So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose; aside; astray.


noun
Wide  n.  
1.
That which is wide; wide space; width; extent. "The waste wide of that abyss."
2.
That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark.





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... is known far and wide as one of the steepest ascents up which an automobile can be sent. Many cars have to take it on the low gear, or go as slowly as possible. Even then it ...
— Larry Dexter's Great Search - or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire • Howard R. Garis
... word 'variety' was at once adopted and became familiar as something peculiarly applicable to the troubled times. The new and always cheerful entertainment found the reward of its optimism in a wide popularity. But as those days of war were the days of men, vaudeville made its appeal to men only. And then the war-clouds passed away and the show business had to reestablish itself, precisely as every other commercial pursuit had to readjust ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page
... Galileo, that he once stood watching a swinging lamp, hung from the roof of the cathedral at Pisa, until he convinced himself that it performed its vibratory movement in the same time, whether the vibration was one of wide or of narrow span. This traditionary tale is most probably correct in its main features, for the Newtons and Galileos of all ages do perceive great truths in occurrences that are as commonplace as the fall of an apple, or the disturbance of a hanging lamp. Trifles are full of meaning ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 - Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 • Various
... becometh afflicted in consequence of my not beholding any creature! And, O king, wandering without cessation, through that flood, I become fatigued, but I obtain no resting place! And some time after I behold in that expanse of accumulated waters a vast and wide-extending banian tree, O lord of earth! And I then behold, O Bharata, seated on a conch, O king, overlaid with a celestial bed and attached to a far-extended bough of that banian, a boy, O great king, of face fair as the lotus or the moon, ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... of the French guns, Wolfe determined, as a first step, to seize the height of Point Levi opposite Quebec. From this point he could fire on the town across the Saint Lawrence, which is, here, less than a mile wide. ...
— With Wolfe in Canada - The Winning of a Continent • G. A. Henty


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