Definition of Wide

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Definition of Wide

Wide

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.

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.

Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference.

Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding.

Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide.

Remote; distant; far.

Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like.

On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

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 / (/ve) is / (/ll); of a (ate) is / (/nd), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13-15.

To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide.

So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose; aside; astray.

That which is wide; wide space; width; extent.

That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark.

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Wide Quotations

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
Pope John Paul II

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
Dave Barry

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward Beecher

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.
Norman Rockwell

Wide Translations

wide in Afrikaans is uitgestrek
wide in Dutch is breedvoerig, ruim, groot, royaal
wide in Finnish is avara
wide in German is breit, weit, weit, Breite
wide in Italian is largo, vasto, latitudine
wide in Latin is latus, prolixus, laxus, fusus
wide in Norwegian is vid
wide in Portuguese is largamente
wide in Spanish is anchuro, vasto
wide in Swedish is vid, bred

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