| wide | |
| 1. adj. Having a large physical extent from side to side. | |
| We walked down a wide corridor. | |
| 2. adj. Large in scope. | |
| The inquiry had a wide remit. | |
| 3. adj. (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area. | |
| That team needs a decent wide player. | |
| 4. adj. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc. | |
| Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide. | |
| 5. adj. (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth. | |
| 6. adj. (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive. | |
| The wide, lifeless expanse. | |
| 7. adj. Remote; distant; far. | |
| The hut was not wide from the sea. | |
| The cabin is not wide from the lake. | |
| 8. adj. (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc. | |
| 9. adj. (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation. | |
| a wide character; a wide stream | |
| 10. adv. extensively | |
| He travelled far and wide. | |
| 11. adv. completely | |
| He was wide awake. | |
| 12. adv. away from a given goal | |
| The arrow fell wide of the mark. | |
| 13. adv. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening. | |
| 14. n. (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score | |
