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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wide
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big/broad/wide smile (=when you are very happy)
▪ She had a big smile on her face.
a big/large/wide gap
▪ There’s a big gap between the two test scores.
a big/large/wide/small mouth
▪ He had a big nose and a big mouth.
▪ Billy’s wide mouth stretched into a grin.
a broad/broad-based/wide curriculum (=involving a wide range of different types of subjects)
▪ The school provides a broad curriculum with a rich choice of learning opportunities.
a slight/gentle/wide bend (=that changes direction slightly or gradually)
▪ Ahead of us there was a wide bend in the river.
a vast/impressive/wide array
▪ There was a vast array of colours to choose from.
a wide audience
▪ an author who commands a wide audience
a wide belt
▪ Along the coast is a wide belt of sand dunes.
a wide entrance
▪ There was a wide entrance at the front of the building.
a wide/broad grin
▪ ‘It was great!’ she shouted, with a wide grin.
a wide/broad range
▪ The Institute organises talks on a wide range of topics.
a wide/great/large variety
▪ They hold debates on a wide variety of topics.
a wide/large circle
▪ They now had a wide circle of acquaintances in the area.
a wide/large/big selection
▪ The museum shop offers a wide selection of items.
a wider debate (=involving more people or a more general discussion)
▪ We believe that there should be a wider debate on such an important issue.
a wider/broader outlook
▪ Education should give students a wider outlook on life.
a wider/broader perspective
▪ Searching through a variety of sources will give them a wider perspective on their subject.
a wider/broader/larger context (=a more general situation, set of events etc)
▪ It’s important to look at the story in the wider context of medieval Spain.
be scattered over a wide area
▪ Parts of the plane were scattered over a wide area.
be spread out over a wide area
▪ The town is spread out over a wide area.
be wide/fully awake (=completely awake)
▪ I'm never wide awake until I've had a cup of coffee.
broad/wide
▪ He was of medium height, with broad shoulders.
broad/wide/full etc spectrum
▪ a broad spectrum of environmental groups
came from far and wide (=came from many places)
▪ People came from far and wide to see the concert.
extensive/wide/widespread coverage
▪ Newpapers and magazines have wide coverage of diet and health topics.
large/wide/extensive
▪ She has a very wide vocabulary.
on a wide/broad/limited front
▪ Schemes of this kind enjoyed success only on a limited front.
round/wide
▪ The children gazed at the screen, their eyes wide with excitement.
the larger/wider society (=used when comparing a small group of people to society as a whole)
▪ The poor are part of the larger society, and programs must be there to help them.
the wider community (=the community of which a small group is a part)
▪ The sports centre is available to both the university and the wider community.
the wider implications (=affecting more people or society in general)
▪ What are the wider implications of this change in the law?
vast/wide/large etc expanse
▪ the vast expanse of the ocean
wide assortment
▪ a wide assortment of friends
wide boy
wide open (=completely open)
▪ All the windows were wide open.
wide open
▪ He was fast asleep with his mouth wide open.
wide open (=anyone could win it)
▪ The men’s race appears wide open.
wide readership
▪ They are hoping that the paper will have quite a wide readership.
wide repertoire
▪ a wide repertoire of songs
wide sweep
▪ the wide sweep of lawn
wide
▪ The margin should be wider.
wide/broad
▪ We crossed the wide River Rhone the following morning.
wide/broad
▪ We looked down on the wide valley below.
wide/broad/good spread of sth
▪ We have a good spread of ages in the department.
▪ a broad spread of investments
wider issues (=more general issues, that affect more people or things)
▪ This is a question that raises much wider issues.
wider recognition
▪ She deserves wider recognition.
wider significance
▪ The research dealt with one small group, but their conclusions are of much wider significance.
widespread/wide popularity (=with a lot of people, or in many places)
▪ Astrology enjoyed widespread popularity.
widespread/wide publicity
▪ The scandal had received widespread publicity.
widespread/wide/general support
▪ There is widespread support for the Government’s proposal.
wide/widespread/extensive consultation (=involving a lot of people, groups etc)
▪ Strong recommendations were made after wide consultation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
far
▪ During this same period a far wider survey had been undertaken of all the fifty-nine party cells in the Poltava guberniia.
▪ But they ignored the unthinking acceptance that Jeffries enjoyed among a far wider circle of students.
▪ Some, such as strategic planning or transportation, require far wider areas than others, such as housing or the Personal social services.
▪ So an illustration may offer far wider possibilities for the art director to achieve special effects and a distinctive style.
▪ But his indictment for his role in a series of crimes against his people has far wider repercussions.
▪ It intends to run far wider trials over the next three years.
▪ The range of creatures it contains is far wider than that found in rocks of a similar age at any other site.
▪ Our critical strategies can range far wider, and in doing so can take on a general character.
much
▪ The civil division of the Court of Appeal enjoys much wider powers to order a retrial than the criminal division.
▪ Rights of audience before tribunals are much wider as noted in chapters 12 and 13.
▪ I spoke about the much wider use of timetable motions.
▪ Pre-packed bulbs come in a much wider range of varieties but tend to be more expensive.
▪ This would prevent questionable findings influencing a much wider readership.
▪ The Bauer/southern Slav position on the national question, however, spread much wider than the Bund.
▪ Also, the range of participants is much wider than in the traditional market.
▪ This chordal range is much wider than many students tend to use.
too
▪ Be truthful Maggie - is 29 years too wide a gap to bridge?
▪ Was I too wide in the rear for his taste?
▪ And even in the forest there are ditches as deep as a man, and too wide to leap.
▪ On reflection, I think we made the nitrogen bands rather too wide.
▪ Vocabulary: too wide - too long - through inside - outside - next to - on top of - underneath.
▪ The generation gap here was too wide.
▪ Whose Tongues are for a Week supply'd From one poor Mouth that's stretch'd too wide.
very
▪ This is a very wide claim and one which potentially includes questions concerning the relationships between women, power and politics.
▪ I had some very wide eyes.
▪ The ventral arm plates are pentagonal nearly triangular with a very wide distal edge; the distal edge may project slightly midradially.
▪ From meteor studies we know that cometary meteors break up over a very wide range of dynamic pressures during atmospheric entry.
▪ On reading: I have very wide tastes.
▪ The families of a nation have an enormous collective purchasing power over a very wide range of products and services.
▪ We have a very wide press in this country, and we count that as one of our freedoms.
▪ Her complexion was pink and white and her eyes were very wide and of an astonishingly china blue hue.
■ NOUN
appeal
▪ After its first year it had the widest appeal of any soap opera.
▪ Treasury officials expect the securities to have wide appeal to investors, including individuals, pension funds and insurance companies.
▪ Power requires a wider appeal than that to mere sectional interest.
▪ The emphasis will continue to be on prod-ucts that gain the widest appeal and most acceptance within this group.
▪ Some of the approaches described below may have wider appeal to your values than others.
▪ In trying to craft a document with wide appeal, the drafters produced a softer tone.
▪ These types of music also have the advantage of a much wider appeal than jazz, a mainly middle-aged, middle-class interest.
▪ They have an enormously wide appeal.
area
▪ The small units based upon traditional settlements or rural areas were to be replaced by wider areas with larger populations.
▪ That would make decoys irrelevant, because the explosion would take out warhead and decoys alike over a wide area.
▪ The competitors are now drawn from a wide area and it has become sport orientated.
▪ Their secret lies in their enormously elongated toes, which spread their weight over a wide area of lily leaf.
▪ Wendy says that slowly but surely our name is taking hold in this wide area.
▪ The wide area covered by the enquiries was amazing.
▪ He says having been there, the crash isn't over such a wide area as we thought at first.
▪ They also destroyed roads, power lines, and sugar and cotton mills over a wide area.
array
▪ Clearly no government can legislate for such a wide array of circumstances, let alone attempt to enforce such legislation.
▪ Constant mulling had left Father Vic afflicted with a wide array of nervous tics, small flinches and exasperated sighs.
▪ The wide array of central controls has necessarily created tension between central government and local councillors.
▪ Now the gluttonous diner has a wide array of eateries from which to choose.
▪ There was a lively trade in most of the decorations and the wide array of aeronautica offered.
▪ Despite historical predictions to the contrary, we remain vulnerable to a wide array of new and resurgent infectious diseases.
▪ The book includes a wide array of misguided movie reviews.
▪ But defenses, especially weapons, now offered a wider array of choices.
audience
▪ Curtis, who rates an above-average 32, seems like the better choice to appeal to a wider audience.
▪ The series of four concerts aims to bring classical music to a wider audience, although the tickets aren't cheap.
▪ There is a chance his Christmas music will find an even wider audience.
▪ Dave Thomas, spokesman for the band, said it was a good opportunity for the band to reach a wider audience.
▪ Businesses and publications are leaving on-line services for the Internet as a way to reach a wider audience.
▪ Through these channels the contemplative ideals developed in monastic communities found a wider audience.
▪ This book therefore sets out to win over a much wider audience to the beauty and importance of ferns and their allies.
berth
▪ Now motorists are threatening to give Shell pumps a wide berth.
▪ The chil-dren sensed his tension and gave him a wide berth.
▪ And villagers walking past gave the gathering a wide berth, and spat in disgust with disparaging comments.
▪ People shuffle past, giving us a wide berth.
▪ Ssamois with polenta the centrepiece of the Menu Gastronomico Valdostano, so I gave that a wide berth.
▪ His father was taking a wide berth around the Sisters, wider than Ezra decided he might have done.
▪ We gave the crashing waves off Rubha Dubh Tighary a wide berth as the force 5 picked up from behind.
▪ Sandie gives her a wide berth.
choice
▪ Each provides a wide choice of sailing and non-sailing activities.
▪ Nottinghamshire is proud to offer its thousands of guests the highest standards and widest choice of accommodation.
▪ In the following exercises the situation is known, but there is a very wide choice of subject.
▪ The Brewhouse Theatre offers year-round entertainment and a wide choice of restaurants make your mouth water.
▪ Public rooms include a lounge, two bars, and restaurant offering a wide choice of carefully prepared food.
▪ There is a buffet breakfast and a wide choice of main courses at dinner, plus a salad buffet.
▪ Mature students will enjoy a wider choice of courses.
▪ Today over 200 stalls offer a wide choice of merchandise.
community
▪ And the wider community is denied the opportunity to deal with the issue compassionately.
▪ The belief that the handbook is scientifically grounded does not remain confined to its authors but spreads to the wider community.
▪ I think of this with particular reference to the local community and the wider community.
▪ In turn the profession would articulate philosophy and justify efforts and achievements with confidence to the wider community.
▪ The application to the wider community brings us to the purpose of our gathering in this place dedicated to unity.
▪ And to catch out those in the financial and wider communities who encouraged them to do so.
▪ I've also used my web site to make a number of resources available for the wider community.
▪ Many industrial activities impose external effects, usually detrimental ones, on the wider community.
context
▪ In a wider context a quantity of labour will be forced into the sectors of the economy where there is less rigidity.
▪ It adds up to a picture of a man in a wider context that just as a fighter pilot.
▪ All organisations exist within some wider context and we would expect an organisation's culture to reflect this.
▪ The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy, which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects.
▪ And they Learn how to place their learning in a wider context.
▪ Such arrangements have to be seen in a wider context.
▪ The emphatic assertion of individual control over health exerted in some of these accounts can be looked at in a wider context.
gap
▪ Without major oil and gas discoveries, there will be a wide gap between demand and supply.
▪ The senator faced an especially wide gap among voters younger than 30 and older than 60.
▪ He came to a wide gap which had been trodden into mud by cattle.
▪ But there is, indeed, still a wide gap in the use of flexibility.
▪ He kept up the pressure with his shoulder to give himself the widest gap possible.
▪ But when the national polls are a wide gap, the country is pretty likely to follow.
▪ Philip Edwards is believed to have suffocated when the 14-inch wide gap caved in.
▪ The offshore wind was coming hard as usual through the wide gap between the warehouses on the Surrey side.
implication
▪ The action is likely to have wide implications.
▪ Again, the seemingly trivial was to have wide implications.
▪ Rakovsky forced himself to be calm, to consider the wider implications.
▪ But this development has wider implications.
▪ Even so, Sir Matthew admitted that the wider implications of the weak housing market on the industry were hard to quantify.
▪ Finally, we will address the wider implications of our reflections on the research process.
▪ Churchill himself was interested not only in this but also in the wider implications of nuclear developments in the 1950s.
▪ The Central Committee was already considering the wider implications of the Unity Campaign.
issue
▪ It is clear, however, that Beveridge paid scant attention to these wider issues.
▪ This point raises a wider issue of some importance to the evaluation of Rawls' procedure.
▪ But from where I stand, it is the wider issue of transparency that really counts.
▪ But wider issues are at stake.
▪ The second innovation is more interesting and raises wider issues.
▪ The wider issue at stake is the philosophy behind Labor's current problems: the corporatist approach to government.
▪ It also relates to much wider issues such as the abuse of monopoly power, exploitation and poverty.
▪ For him, critical writing has to take up wider issues than enjoyment of a picture or a sculpture.
margin
▪ Each volume is beautifully produced, on thick paper with wide margins and a general air of elegance.
▪ But voters are preferring other candidates to Gramm by wide margins.
▪ This beats even the great Bobby Fischer by a wide margin.
▪ The initiative passed by a wide margin, but initial court rulings have enjoined its enforcement.
▪ It allows for artists and historians to explore in the wider margins works and strategies neglected or dismissed by modernism.
▪ So far, its return has outpaced the Gfund and Ffunds by a wide margin.
▪ Articles for the press should be written with double spacing and wide margins.
▪ Leave wide margins on both sides of each page.
mouth
▪ She, that person, had a wide mouth, with plump lips, like cushions.
▪ The cauldron was lying on the floor, its wide mouth gaping at her like a cannon.
▪ Far ahead he could see a sloping ramp that led up to a wide mouth gaping into a busy street.
▪ They were particularly striking set in his narrow face with its wide mouth.
▪ He looked at her wide mouth, the full lips that kissed him so often and so lusciously.
▪ When she smiled, her wide mouth pushed her cheeks into a series of tiny wrinkles like those in crepe paper.
▪ Her wide mouth, emphasized with her scarlet lipstick, parted in a glowing smile.
▪ The wide mouth of Yell Sound, leading to Sullom Voe opened up to port.
open
▪ The race is now wide open.
▪ There, my own history cracked wide open.
▪ The snap showed Jennifer with eyes closed and mouth wide open.
▪ Leave the window wide open in winter; turn off the airconditioning in summer.
▪ Turning the corner into Polly's road, Jack noticed suddenly that the door to her house was wide open.
▪ The champ took a dive, hit the deck, and split wide Open.
▪ His eyes were wide open, but he was, apparently, dead.
▪ I will say this only once and I hope your cars are wide open.
range
▪ This is a far wider range of goods and services than those covered in the Retail Price Index.
▪ The program Chip was running included counselors and tutors and provided a wide range of services.
▪ A wide range of music is studied from the Middle Ages to Beethoven.
▪ Vefa claims a wide range of lavish holdings, such as a shipping line and distilleries.
▪ For instance, personality variations account for the wide range of reactions towards a salesperson.
▪ Because there is such a wide range of substances there are many ways they can be misused.
▪ Clearly artists working in several media have a wide range of references.
▪ Wonderful shows and wide range of general entertainments and attractions.
selection
▪ Provide a wide selection, making sure there are lots of different colours, flavours and textures.
▪ To see a video, consumers would pick one from a wide selection and would be billed later.
▪ Mrs Massey has a wide selection of machines and is very involved with machine knitting in Nottingham.
▪ Most art shops offer a wide selection of mounting card in a variety of colours and thicknesses.
▪ A wide selection of cars are available, and all manufacturers try to include a range to suit varying disabilities.
▪ Dietary fibre is provided by a wide selection of easily available and palatable foods.
▪ Epicure has a wide selection, from fruits and nuts to preserve and biscuits.
sense
▪ Political action in its widest sense will determine which we make a reality.
▪ Government in the widest sense, including our masters in Brussels.
▪ It is always difficult to know whether one's perceptions of success constitute progress in a wider sense.
▪ Cost is used here in its widest sense involving payment of fees, loss of earnings, loss of time and so on.
▪ It is for this reason that in this book I ordinarily use kinship in its wider sense.
▪ Accountability, in its widest sense refers to the responsibility for your actions to some one else.
▪ This acceptance of medical treatment in its widest sense is subject to the requirement not to accept transfusions of blood or blood derivatives.
smile
▪ Paul looked surprised to receive a wide smile of welcome from Stephen when he entered the office.
▪ Then she smiled the wide smile which lifted her ears toward her hair.
▪ Mandru was staring right at him, a wide smile stretching his face into ropes of muscle.
▪ The guy laughed, wide smile dotted with gold teeth.
▪ He breaks into a wide smile, and a dried bogie snowflakes from his nose down to the ground.
▪ He put the receiver back and created, forcing his lips to perform, a wide smile.
▪ He paused to speak to the surprised group and their wide smiles of acknowledgement started the day off well.
▪ She has a flat, round face with eyes close together and a wide smile.
spectrum
▪ My daily Radio Column covered a wide spectrum of programme interests, a large part of which was concerned with local broadcasts.
▪ His campaign never caught on with a wide spectrum of the electorate.
▪ Never before has such a wide spectrum of organisations made such a call.
▪ His benign middle-class credentials were supposed to attract a wide spectrum of supporters, but he was merely a figurehead.
▪ Transend are continually looking for shareware that spans a wide spectrum.
▪ Their leaders covered a wide spectrum.
▪ Part of that has to do with the wider spectrum of entertainment competing for our attention.
variation
▪ Solids exhibit a wide variation in rigidity.
▪ Not surprisingly, the studies of caffeine tolerance and withdrawal have found wide variations in subject responses.
▪ That's the national picture; but between farms and regions there's wide variation in yield.
▪ But there is wide variation among Internet providers in cost, features, software, reliability and customer service.
▪ Several authors have described wide variations in the number of night visits, which have proved difficult to explain.
▪ There was wide variation in the students' responses.
▪ The second column also shows that there is a wide variation between regions in the proportion of exports to foreign debt.
▪ The standards could accommodate a reasonably wide variation.
variety
▪ In fact the anti-gold mining struggle has shown an ability to utilize a wide variety of cultural weapons in its campaign.
▪ Houseswapping, once mainly the province of teachers on extended leaves, now attracts a wide variety of travelers.
▪ It opens up opportunities to supply a wide variety of users with information which is timely, accurate, significant and relevant.
▪ This is happening on several continents and involves a wide variety of disciplines.
▪ The companies which make up the P&O Group operate in a wide variety of fields on a world-wide basis.
▪ Already, a wide variety of borrowers, from top-rated Merck&038;.
▪ The alternatives are designed to cater for a wide variety of abilities in S5.
▪ In addition, there is a wide variety of ships smaller in scale and more intimate.
world
▪ And if it was not, what in the wide world was it?
▪ And his very best friend in the whole wide world is a rabbit.
▪ Hardly anybody in the big wide world has heard of us, let alone been influenced by our lives.
▪ We could certainly be a stronger presence in the wider world.
▪ He knows little about economics or the wider world.
▪ All of these abilities equip children to move out from their families and into the wider world.
▪ It stands for a fastidious aesthetic sense of something having turned out wrong in the wide world.
▪ Many children of leading ministers took advantage of the wider world their fathers' success had opened for them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a broader/wider/larger canvas
cast your net (far and) wide
▪ I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.
▪ We cast our net wider and in a different direction.
cast/spread your net wide
▪ Furse spread his net wide, but it did not sink deep.
▪ I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.
▪ It was argued in Chapter 2 that the criminal law ought to spread its net wider where the potential harm is greater.
▪ Later that afternoon the police, who had been diligently searching certain caravans on Turpin's Field, spread their net wider.
▪ We cast our net wider and in a different direction.
far and wide
▪ A topic like this resonates far and wide.
▪ And Jaq would spread the hydra far and wide.
▪ Class embers came from far and wide - a dedicated crew.
▪ Her torso shattered, showering live embers far and wide.
▪ Northampton was another elegant county town and regional market centre and was known far and wide for its horse fairs.
▪ Prosperity came to Knock, as pilgrims came from far and wide; and Father Cavanagh kept his ears.
▪ The-billowing smoke of the bonfire swirled those fragments far and wide over the earth.
▪ We had flung ourselves to the wind, and it had taken us far and wide.
off the mark/wide of the mark
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ wide experience in government and business
▪ a wide leather belt
▪ a wide necktie
▪ Coles gained wide publicity after predicting the earthquake.
▪ How wide is the door?
▪ The doorway wasn't quite wide enough to get the piano through.
▪ The girl led me down a wide corridor into a large office.
▪ The river is very wide.
▪ Wreckage was spread across a wide area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also remarkable are the paintings, geometrically designed rooms and wide variety of nearly 200-year-old china and silver.
▪ Far ahead he could see a sloping ramp that led up to a wide mouth gaping into a busy street.
▪ His campaign never caught on with a wide spectrum of the electorate.
▪ Simply ideal for families it has direct access on to the beach and offers a wide range of holiday activities for children.
▪ Table 3. 2 provides individual estimate for gaseous coal seams with the geometric mean used wherever a wide spread is given.
II.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
awake
▪ In an instant Fabia was wide awake and, with a drumming heart, she put on the light.
▪ As the train slid slowly into Asansol station, Brother Mariadas, suddenly wide awake, shook me out of my reverie.
▪ The hedgehog caper had somehow affected his pattern of sleep and he was wide awake at six, with nowhere to go.
▪ After an hour, though still wide awake, I crimped the page and turned off the light.
▪ Bright green lizards were scuttling over a clump of tree-roots twice as tall as Alan, and he was wide awake.
▪ Miles and Evan are so wide awake, it is exhausting.
▪ When he came to bed, hours later it seemed, she was wide awake.
▪ Jack was wide awake, in his red silk pajamas and red silk robe.
open
▪ Got to do this with our eyes wide open.
▪ It leaves them wide open for dismissal by anybody with a basic knowledge of debating tactics.
▪ He would lie there quietly, eyes wide open, taking from her skin what he needed.
▪ As I drew level with the two vehicles I saw that Carla's front door was wide open.
▪ By building a computerized society, the United States has left itself wide open to electronic attack.
▪ Antoinette's eyes flew wide open, like a doll's.
▪ This was the moment when she elected him, with her eyes and her heart wide open, knowing what she did.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a broader/wider/larger canvas
cast your net (far and) wide
▪ I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.
▪ We cast our net wider and in a different direction.
cast/spread your net wide
▪ Furse spread his net wide, but it did not sink deep.
▪ I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.
▪ It was argued in Chapter 2 that the criminal law ought to spread its net wider where the potential harm is greater.
▪ Later that afternoon the police, who had been diligently searching certain caravans on Turpin's Field, spread their net wider.
▪ We cast our net wider and in a different direction.
deep-set/wide-set/close-set eyes
far and wide
▪ A topic like this resonates far and wide.
▪ And Jaq would spread the hydra far and wide.
▪ Class embers came from far and wide - a dedicated crew.
▪ Her torso shattered, showering live embers far and wide.
▪ Northampton was another elegant county town and regional market centre and was known far and wide for its horse fairs.
▪ Prosperity came to Knock, as pilgrims came from far and wide; and Father Cavanagh kept his ears.
▪ The-billowing smoke of the bonfire swirled those fragments far and wide over the earth.
▪ We had flung ourselves to the wind, and it had taken us far and wide.
in the whole (wide) world
▪ You're my best friend in the whole wide world!
▪ A toast to Bernie-the worst stockbroker in the whole world!
▪ All current affairs in the whole world of lamentable war and strife needed to be weighed in this balance.
▪ And his very best friend in the whole wide world is a rabbit.
▪ I am not responsible for all the smuggling in the whole world.
▪ I thought it was the most beautiful spot in the whole world.
▪ There may be more bacteria in and on you as you read this than there are human beings in the whole world.
▪ There must be one woman in the whole world to whom he could tell the truth.
▪ You are my favourite person in the whole world.
off the mark/wide of the mark
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Wilton hit the ball high and wide.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ From a tap penalty the forwards drove in short bursts, and then took the ball wide to Joe Roff.
▪ Gabriel had the window wide open and was standing there looking down at him.
▪ Miles and Evan are so wide awake, it is exhausting.
▪ Sisson hooked the kick wide left.
▪ The championship race is wide open.
▪ The driver swung wide around my car and paused, apparently activating an automatic garage door.
▪ The night being unseasonably warm, most of the windows were wide open.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wide

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.

  9. (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.

    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.

Wide

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.

Wide

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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wide

Old English wid "vast, broad, long," also used of time, from Proto-Germanic *widaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian wid, Old Norse viðr, Dutch wijd, Old High German wit, German weit), perhaps from PIE *wi-ito-, from root *wi- "apart, away, in half."\n

\nMeaning "distended, expanded, spread apart" is from c.1500; sense of "embracing many subjects" is from 1530s; meaning "missing the intended target" is from 1580s. As a second element in compounds (such as nationwide, worldwide) meaning "extending through the whole of," is is from late Old English. As an adverb, Old English wide. Wide open "unguarded, exposed to attack" (1915) originally was in boxing, etc. Wide awake (adj.) is first recorded 1818; figurative sense of "alert, knowing" is attested from 1833.

Wiktionary
wide

a. 1 Having a large physical extent from side to side. 2 Large in scope. adv. 1 extensively 2 completely 3 away from a given goal n. (context cricket English) 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

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wide

  1. adv. 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]

wide

  1. adj. 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, wide-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]

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Wikipedia
Wide

WIDE or Wide may refer to:

  • Wide (cricket)
  • Wide and narrow data, terms used to describe two different presentations for tabular data
  • Web integrated development environment
  • Wide-angle Infinity Display Equipment
  • WIDE-LP, a radio station (99.1 FM) licensed to Madison, Wisconsin
  • WIDE Project, Widely Integrated Distributed Environment
  • Women in Development Europe
Wide (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a wide is one of two things:

  • The event of a ball being delivered by a bowler too wide or (in international cricket) high to be hit by the batsman, and ruled so by the umpire.
  • The run scored by the batting team as a penalty to the bowling team when this occurs.

A wide does not count as one of the six balls in an over and it does not count as a ball faced by the batsman.

When a wide is bowled, one run is added to the runs scored off that ball, and is scored as extras and are added to the team's total, but are not added to any batsman's total.

A batsman cannot, by definition, be out bowled, leg before wicket, caught, or hit the ball twice off a wide, as a ball cannot be ruled as a wide if the ball strikes the batsman's bat or person. He may be out handled the ball, hit wicket, obstructing the field, run out, or stumped.

If the wicket-keeper fumbles or misses the ball, the batsmen may be able to take additional runs safely, and may choose to do so. The number of runs scored are scored as wides, not byes. These extra wides are all added to the bowler's score.

If the wicket-keeper misses the ball and it travels all the way to the boundary, the batting team immediately scores five wides, similarly as if the ball had been hit to the boundary for a four on a no ball. If a wide ball crosses the boundary without touching the ground, only five wides (not seven) are scored - according to Law 19.5, a boundary six can only be scored if the ball has touched the bat.

If a ball qualifies as a no ball as well as a wide, the umpire will call it a no ball instead of a wide, and all the rules for a no ball apply.

Wides are considered to be the fault of the bowler, and are recorded as a negative statistic in a bowler's record. However, this has only been the case since the early 1980s - the first Test to record wides (and no-balls) against the bowler's analyses was India vs Pakistan in September 1983.

Wides used to be relatively rare, but regulations have been added in many competitions to enforce a much stricter interpretation in order to deter defensive bowling, and the number of wides has increased sharply. In one-day cricket, most deliveries that pass the batsman on the leg side without hitting the stumps are now called as wides. In the semi-finals and final of the first World Cup in 1975, there were 79 extras, of which 9 were wides (11.4%); in the semi-finals and final of the World Cup in 2011, there were 77 extras, of which 46 were wides (59.7%). In the six Tests of the 1970-71 Ashes series there were 9 wides; in the five Tests of the Ashes series of 2010-11 there were 52 wides.

The baseball equivalent of a wide is a called " ball" (short for "no ball"), in the sense that each is judged to be an "unfair" or "unhittable" delivery by the umpire. Baseball's "strike zone" provides a more precise definition than does cricket, leaving less to the umpire's judgment (he can still decide whether the ball must completely enter the zone, or only touch it, for a "ball" to be avoided). Unlike a wide, if the batter swings the bat, then the ball is deemed fair regardless of where it was thrown.

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Usage examples of "wide".

The three of us went first to check on the pool, and found it gratifying abrim with repulsive brown water, wide and deep enough to have submerged our truck.

The tolling of a distant clock absently spoke the midnight hour, but Cassandra was wide awake as she dreamed, consumed by better days.

The enlarged flyby surveillance photograph hanging on the wall showed in grainy black and white the cabin and its grounds, including the wide, elevated back porch on which Glenn Abies could be seen standing, small but unmistakable, giving the helicopter the finger.

This is a common way for adventuresses to look upon their daughters, and Therese was an adventuress in the widest acceptation of the term.

Almost two years ago he had upped and left Acme, Texas, to go out into the wide open world, only to find his own shrunk down to the confining cockpit of a B-17 bomber.

A single adamantine bridge, a narrow slab of metal without guardrails and wide enough for only two or three men abreast, spanned the moat.

Their substitutes for adaptability can sustain them only in the limited enclaves of civilization, not in the wide open spaces of the desert, or in the terrifying futures Paul opens himself to in his visions.

He was thinking of something so widely different, being seated, in fact, just opposite to Sara, who, fresh from her afternoon sleep, was looking adorably pensive in her black dress edged with a soft white frill that took a heart-shaped curve in front, just wide enough to show the exquisite hollow in the lower part of her throat.

This material was another strictly non-Mesklinite product, a piece of molecular architecture vaguely analogous to zeolite in structure, which adsorbed hydrogen on the inner walls of its structural channels and, within a wide temperature range, maintained an equilibrium partial pressure with the gas which was compatible with Mesklinite metabolic needs.

Frederiksen was tall, 185 centimeters, slender save for wide shoulders and the Aenean depth of chest.

The torrent of that wide and raging river Is passed, and our aereal speed suspended.

Prince was negotiating with Washington, while his detached scouts sought far and wide over the Eastern States looking for anything resembling an aeronautic park.

Plague can be grown easily in a wide range of temperatures and media, and we eventually developed a plague weapon capable of surviving in an aerosol while maintaining its killing capacity.

Pakistan has been producing and testing, on an experimental basis, a wide range of odd drugs, both amphetamines and narcotics, in pill, liquid, and aerosol form.

Had scarce burst forth, when from afar The ministers of misrule sent, Seized upon Lionel, and bore His chained limbs to a dreary tower, In the midst of a city vast and wide.