Word for the day: wide

wide |wīd|                                                        *ancho (en Español)


DEFINITION

adjective ( wider , widest )1 of great or more than average width: a wide road.• (after a measurement and in questions) from side to side: it measures 15 cm long by 12 cm wide | how wide do you think this house is?• open to the full extent: wide eyes.• considerable: tax revenues have undershot Treasury projections by a wide margin.2 including a great variety of people or things: a wide range of opinion.• spread among a large number of people or over a large area: the business is slowly gaining wider acceptance.• [ in combination ] extending over the whole of: an industry-wide trend.3 at a considerable or specified distance from a point or mark: Bodie's shot was inches wide.• Baseball(of a pitch) outside: the ball was wide ofthe plate.• Baseball(of a throw) to either side of a base: forced a wide throw to first.• (in field sports) at or near the side of the field: he played in a wide left position.4 Phonetics another term for lax.

adverb1 to the full extent: his eyes opened wide.2 far from a particular point or mark: a shot that went wide to the right.• at or near the side of the field; toward the sideline: he will play wide on the right.
nounCricketa ball that is judged to be too wide of the stumps for the batsman to play, for which an extra is awarded to the batting side.
PHRASES
give someone/something a wide berthsee berth.wide awakefully awake.wide of the mark see off the mark at mark1.wide open1 fully open: the door was wide open. 2 (of an issue or a contest) completely unresolved or unpredictable. 3 vulnerable, esp. to attack.
DERIVATIVES
wideness (noun).widish (adjective)
ORIGIN Old English wīd‘spacious, extensive,’ wīde‘over a large area,’ of Germanic origin.

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