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/brˈɔdkˌæst/ Listen

verb

Broadcast v. (past & past part. broadcast; pres. part. broadcasting)

1.

To cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely.

2.

To transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station.

3.

To disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station.

4.

To spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means.

noun

Broadcast n.

1.

(Agric.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

2.

An act of broadcasting; specifically, a program in which sounds or images are transmitted in all directions from a radio or television station; usually referring to a scheduled program on a commercial or public service radio or television station, using the normal radio frequencies for those media, in contrast to a radiotelephone conversation, which may also be transmitted in all directions, but is intended for receipt by a base station in the telephone network.

adjective

Broadcast adj.

1.

Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.

2.

Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); opposed to planting in hills, or rows.

adverb

Broadcast adv. So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.

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Etymology of 'Broadcast'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Broadcast" Quotes from Famous Books

... around again I tried in vain to spread the tale broadcast. I had some notion that the notoriety ...

— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin

... that come so glibly from the lips of the insurance agent. Perhaps the very fact that it pays companies to spend thousands a year on the salaries of agents, and other thousands on broadcast eye-catching advertisements, shows that there are many things which our imagination only accepts "against the grain." Fire, storm, loss by theft or burglary, sickness, disablement and death we do not, by choice, dwell on ...

— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various

... dealings of the fraudulent and the unwary receive their just reward? And think you he will not make a great writing, several columns in length, and deliver it to the devils that perform his bidding, and shall they not multiply what he hath written, and sow it broadcast over the British Raj for the minor consideration of one anna a copy, that all shall see how the Maharajah of Baithopoor doth scandalously repudiate his debts, and harbour traitors to the Raj ...

— Mr. Isaacs • F. Marion Crawford

... more affluent than Rosamund Eastney and Sir Gregory Darrell. She was Lord Berners' only daughter, a brown beauty, of extensive repute, thanks to a retinue of lovers who were practitioners of the Gay Science, and who had scattered broadcast innumerable Canzons in her honor; and Lord Berners was a man to accept the ...

— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell

... orators even asserted that Calhoun agreed that no other course was possible, speaking for the Interstellar Medical Service. And Calhoun furiously demanded a chance to deny it by broadcast, and he made a bitter and indiscreet speech from which a planet-wide audience inferred ...

— This World Is Taboo • Murray Leinster

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