wide : Idioms & Phrases

• adjective satellite involving the entire continent
  

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• adverb over great areas or distances; everywhere
  far and near.
  
  • he traveled far and wide
  • the news spread far and wide
  • people came from far and near
  • searched for the child far and near

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• distantly and broadly; comprehensively. "Far and wide his eye commands." Milton.

Webster 1913

• to keep at a distance from it.

Webster 1913

• noun a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network
  WAN.
  

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• . See the Note under Cauge, 6.

Webster 1913

• adjective satellite not on target
  wide.
  
  • the kick was wide
  • the arrow was wide of the mark
  • a claim that was wide of the truth

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• noun a projection screen that is much wider than it is high
  

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• noun corduroy with wide ribs
  

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• adjective of or relating to a fisheye lens
  fisheye.
  

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• noun a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length); produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery
  fisheye lens.
  

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• adjective satellite fully awake
  unsleeping.
  
  • the unsleeping city
  • so excited she was wide-awake all night
• adjective satellite fully alert and watchful
  heads-up.
  
  • played heads-up ball

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Wide`-a*wake" adjective

Definitions

1. Fully awake; not rowsy or dull; hence, knowing; keen; alert. Dickens.

Wide`-a*wake" noun

Definitions

1. A broad-brimmed, low-crowned felt hat.

Webster 1913

• noun a commercial airliner with two aisles
  twin-aisle airplane; widebody aircraft; wide-body.
  

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• noun a commercial airliner with two aisles
  twin-aisle airplane; widebody aircraft; wide-body.
  

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• adjective satellite having ample fabric
  wide; full.
  
  • the current taste for wide trousers
  • a full skirt

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• adjective satellite exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
  simple; dewy-eyed; round-eyed; childlike.
  
  • childlike trust
  • dewy-eyed innocence
  • listened in round-eyed wonder
• adjective satellite (used of eyes) fully open or extended
  wide.
  
  • stared with wide eyes

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• adjective satellite open wide
  
  • left the doors wide-open
• adjective satellite lax in enforcing laws
  lawless.
  
  • a wide-open town

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• adjective satellite including much
  
  • the pianist's wide-ranging repertoire
• adjective satellite widely different
  varied.
  
  • varied motives prompt people to join a political party
  • varied ethnic traditions of the immigrants

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• adjective satellite (motion pictures) projected on a screen with much greater width than height
  

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• noun computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
  web; WWW.
  

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• adjective satellite involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
  worldwide; planetary; global; world.
  
  • global war
  • global monetary policy
  • neither national nor continental but planetary
  • a world crisis
  • of worldwide significance
• adjective satellite spanning or extending throughout the entire world
  worldwide.
  
  • worldwide distribution
  • a worldwide epidemic
• adjective satellite of worldwide scope or applicability
  worldwide; cosmopolitan; universal; ecumenical; general; oecumenical.
  
  • an issue of cosmopolitan import
  • the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley
  • universal experience

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World"-wide` adjective

Definitions

1. Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.

Webster 1913