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Wide

adjective
(compar. wider; superl. widest)
1.
Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other.  Synonym: broad.  "A wide necktie" , "Wide margins" , "Three feet wide" , "A river two miles broad" , "Broad shoulders" , "A broad river"
2.
Broad in scope or content.  Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic.  "An all-embracing definition" , "Blanket sanctions against human-rights violators" , "An invention with broad applications" , "A panoptic study of Soviet nationality" , "Granted him wide powers"
3.
(used of eyes) fully open or extended.  Synonym: wide-eyed.
4.
Very large in expanse or scope.  Synonyms: broad, spacious.  "The wide plains" , "A spacious view" , "Spacious skies"
5.
Great in degree.
6.
Having ample fabric.  Synonyms: full, wide-cut.  "A full skirt"
7.
Not on target.  Synonym: wide of the mark.  "The arrow was wide of the mark" , "A claim that was wide of the truth"
adverb
1.
With or by a broad space.  "Ran wide around left end"
2.
To the fullest extent possible.  "With the throttle wide open"
3.
Far from the intended target.  Synonym: astray.  "A bullet went astray and killed a bystander"
4.
To or over a great extent or range; far.  Synonym: widely.  "He traveled widely"



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... therefore took the lead, and was so fortunate as to discover an old track, soon after leaving our encampment, which we followed until it brought us in sight of the Grand River—the long looked-for object of our fast failing hopes. Tears of joy burst from my eyes, as I beheld before me the wide expanse of the noble stream: although covered with ice and divested of the beauties of summer, it never appeared more lovely to me. We reached the post after night-fall; opening the door cautiously, I threw in my snow-shoes, then bolting in myself, was gratified with the sight of ...
— Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory • John M'lean
 
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... and metals and with organised feats of engineering that stagger our northern minds—unused as we are to such feats as that of the Sauebas of Rio de Janeiro, who in 1841 drove a tunnel under the Parahyba where it is as wide as the Thames at London Bridge—but with an organised and detailed method of record and communication analogous to our books. So far their action has been a steady progressive settlement, involving the flight or slaughter of every human being in the new ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells
 
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... man, instead of sending him to the spit, offered him some bread, which he ate, and immediately struck up an enthusiastic friendship with his master, caring nothing for any throngs about him. After a time he would nestle his long neck far up into the bishop's wide sleeve, toying with him and asking him for things with pretty little clatterings. The bird seemed to know some days before he was due that he was coming, for it flapped about the lake and made cries. It would leave the water and stalk through ...
— Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln - A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England • Charles L. Marson
 
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... heavy sorrow: then expresses those emotions of the mind by the tongue, its interpreter. If the words be discordant to the station of the speaker, the Roman knights and plebians will raise an immoderate laugh. It will make a wide difference, whether it be Davus that speaks, or a hero; a man well-stricken in years, or a hot young fellow in his bloom; and a matron of distinction, or an officious nurse; a roaming merchant, or the cultivator of a verdant little farm; a Colchian, ...
— The Works of Horace • Horace
 
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... short-tailed, dark-colored member of the gapperi group. Dorsal stripe wide, between Chestnut and Bay (capitalized color terms after Ridgway: Color Standards and Color Nomenclature. Washington, D. C., 1912), with slight mixture of black-tipped hairs; sides and venter heavily washed with Ochraceous-Tawny. Skull flattened; rostrum proportionately short and wide; ...
— Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of North American Microtines • E. Raymond Hall
 
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