wide

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

wijd

breed

breedvoerig

veelomvattend

weelderig

wijdbeens

wĳd

alomvattend

wijd open

flat and wide

wide-cut

become wide

wide-open

adj 1 & 3 broad

become thick

-ous

be wide

be thick

be spacious

panorama-viewed

-ful

into the distance

not narrow

fair-and-square

right smart

spread-out

spaceful

exhaustly

molto

Frequentie

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/waɪd/

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.