wide

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
2. Large in scope.
3. Operating at the side of the playing area.
4. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
5. Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
6. Vast, great in extent, extensive.
7. (obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far.
8. (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
9. Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
10. (slang) Sharp-witted.

Adv

1. extensively
2. completely
3. away from or to one side of a given goal
4. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

Noun

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

Concepts

large

ample

vaste

étendu

grand

spacieux

plat

largement

épais

pierre

écraser

bassine

largeur

considérable

coulant

généreux

éventail

sans fin

répandu

aplati

gras

gros

court

épaisseur

devenir épais

être

rendre épais

plein

général

complet

considérablement

extensif

extensivement

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/waɪd/

Étymologie (Anglais)

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate, divide”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).
Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Danish vid (“wide”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin dīvidō (“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.