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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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... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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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