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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wide \Wide\ (w[imac]d), a. [Compar. {Wider} (-[~e]r); superl. {Widest}.] [OE. wid, wyde, AS w[=i]d; akin to OFries & OS w[=i]d, D. wijd, G. weit, OHG. w[=i]t, Icel. v[=i][eth]r, Sw & Dan. vid; of uncertain origin.] 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. --Chaucer. Wide is the gate . . . that leadeth to destruction. --Matt. vii. 18. 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.'' --Chaucer. For sceptered cynics earth were far too wide a den. --Byron. When the wide bloom, on earth that lies, Seems of a brighter world than ours --Bryant. 3. Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as wide views; a wide understanding. Men of strongest head and widest culture. --M. Arnold. 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. --Hammond. 6. Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like ``Our wide expositors.'' --Milton. It is far wide that the people have such judgments. --Latimer. How wide is all this long pretense ! --Herbert. 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. --Spenser. I was but two bows wide. --Massinger. 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. The wide of [=e] ([=e]ve) is [i^] ([i^]ll); of [=a] ([=a]te) is [e^] ([e^]nd), etc See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 13-15. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wide \Wide\, adv [As. w[imac]de.] 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. --Piers Plowman. 2. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening. --Shak. 3. So as to be or strike far from or on one side of an object or purpose; aside; astray. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wide \Wide\, n. 1. That which is wide; wide space; width; extent. ``The waste wide of that abyss.'' --Tennyson. 2. That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wide \Wide\, a. (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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: wide adj 1: having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river" [syn: {broad}] [ant: {narrow}] 2: broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: {across-the-board}, {all-embracing}, {all-encompassing}, {all-inclusive}, {blanket(a)}, {broad}, {encompassing}, {panoptic}] 3: (used of eyes) fully open or extended; "listened in round-eyed wonder"; "stared with wide eyes" [syn: {round-eyed}] 4: very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" [syn: {broad}, {spacious}] 5: great in degree; "won by a wide margin" [ant: {narrow}] 6: great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection" [syn: {extended}, {extensive}] 7: having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt" [syn: {wide-cut}, {full}] 8: not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth" [syn: {wide of the mark}] adv 1: with or by a broad space; "stand with legs wide apart"; "ran wide around left end" 2: to the fullest extent possible; "open your eyes wide"; "with the throttle wide open" 3: far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander" [syn: {astray}] 4: to or over a great extent or range; far "wandered wide through many lands"; "he traveled widely" [syn: {widely}]
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