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Widest

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.

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widest

a. (en-superlative of: wide)

Usage examples of "widest".

It was a spindle-shaped synth-and-metal machine about three meters long and one through at the widest point.

She wasted no more time on the silence but broadcast on the widest band possible.

Lance replied amiably, and indicated they should hang a right as they came to a five-way junction of corridors, the widest one being the main route to the Control Intelligence Center offices in Akahiro Block.

Beyond them on the widest part of the terminal apron, two freight lighters were parked, waiting to bring down cargo from the next orbiting freighter.

He was the widest man Afra had ever seen, with forearms twice the size of his father's, or even Stationmaster Hasardar.

She was also operating under the general directive that unusual sites should be recorded and photographed to offer the widest possible choice.

They found the widest cracks along the jam and fired their crossbows blindly at the workers, adding to the confusion.

The widest floor area was the lowest level, between the gigantic steps, housing the huge furnaces.

The base was no more than a hundred feet wide at its widest point, the expanse widening as the walls rose so that from cliff top to cliff top was several hun­dred feet across in many locations.

With a grim nod to the others, he walked up to a nearby oak, the widest tree around, and put his forehead against its thick trunk.

Near the top of the cavern, where the trench-shaped chamber was at its widest, the nobles had constructed their sprawling Houses sufficiently beyond the stench and noise of the common folk far below.

There is often the widest possible difference in the facility of making reciprocal crosses.

It is a law of the widest generality, and every continent offers innumerable instances.

Drift timber is thrown up on most islands, even on those in the midst of the widest oceans.

Taking tape from my pack, I secured the flashlight laser to the front of the hawking mat and set the beam to its widest dispersal.