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Wide vs. Breadth — What's the Difference?

Wide vs. Breadth — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Wide and Breadth

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Wide

Of great or more than average width
A wide road

Breadth

The measure or dimension from side to side; width.

Wide

Including a great variety of people or things
A wide range of opinion
His wide circle of friends

Breadth

A piece usually produced in a standard width
A breadth of canvas.

Wide

At a considerable or specified distance from an intended point or target
The ball was wide of the leg stump
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Breadth

Wide range or scope
Breadth of knowledge.

Wide

To the full extent
His eyes opened wide

Breadth

Tolerance; broadmindedness
A jurist of great breadth and wisdom.

Wide

Far from a particular or intended point or target
His final touchline conversion drifted wide

Breadth

An effect of unified, encompassing vision in an artistic composition.

Wide

A ball that is judged to be too wide of the stumps for the batsman to play, for which an extra is awarded to the batting side.

Breadth

The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is.
The breadth of the corridor is 4.5 metres.

Wide

Having a specified extent from side to side
A ribbon two inches wide.

Breadth

A piece of fabric of standard width.

Wide

Extending over a great distance from side to side; broad
A wide road.
A wide necktie.

Breadth

Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.
Expand one's breadth of marketing

Wide

Having great extent or range; including much or many
A wide selection.
Granting wide powers.
Wide variations.

Breadth

(arts) A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.

Wide

Fully open or extended
Look with wide eyes.

Breadth

(graph theory) The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.

Wide

To the side of or at a distance from a given boundary, limit, or goal
A shot that was wide of the target.

Breadth

Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.
Breadth of coloring is a prominent character in the painting of all great masters.

Wide

(Baseball) Outside.

Breadth

An ability to understand a broad range of topics;
A teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject

Wide

(Sports) Being toward or near one of the side boundaries of a playing area, such as a sideline on a football field.

Breadth

The extent of something from side to side

Wide

Deviating or straying from something expected or specified
A remark that was wide of the truth.

Wide

(Linguistics) Lax.

Wide

Over a great distance; extensively
Traveled far and wide.

Wide

To the full extent; completely.

Wide

To the side of or at a distance from a given boundary, limit, or goal.

Wide

(Sports) Toward or near one of the sides of a playing area
Ran wide to catch a pass.

Wide

A ball bowled outside of the batsman's reach, counting as a run for the batting team in cricket.

Wide

Having a large physical extent from side to side.
We walked down a wide corridor.

Wide

Large in scope.
The inquiry had a wide remit.

Wide

(sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
That team needs a decent wide player.

Wide

On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

Wide

Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.

Wide

Vast, great in extent, extensive.
The wide, lifeless expanse.

Wide

(obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far.

Wide

(obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.

Wide

(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
A wide character; a wide stream

Wide

Antagonistic, provocative.

Wide

Extensively
He travelled far and wide.

Wide

Completely
He was wide awake.

Wide

Away from or to one side of a given goal
The arrow fell wide of the mark.
A few shots were fired but they all went wide.

Wide

So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

Wide

(cricket) 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

Wide

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.
Wide is the gate . . . that leadeth to destruction.

Wide

Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference.
For sceptered cynics earth were far too wide a den.
When the wide bloom, on earth that lies,Seems of a brighter world than ours.

Wide

Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding.
Men of strongest head and widest culture.

Wide

Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide.

Wide

Remote; distant; far.
The contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God.

Wide

Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like.
It is far wide that the people have such judgments.
How wide is all this long pretense !

Wide

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.
I was but two bows wide.

Wide

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 ē (ēve) is ĭ (ĭll); of ā (āte) is ĕ (ĕnd), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, 13-15.

Wide

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.

Wide

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.

Wide

So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

Wide

So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose; aside; astray.

Wide

That which is wide; wide space; width; extent.

Wide

That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark.

Wide

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

Wide

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
Granted him wide powers

Wide

(used of eyes) fully open or extended;
Listened in round-eyed wonder
Stared with wide eyes

Wide

Very large in expanse or scope;
A broad lawn
The wide plains
A spacious view
Spacious skies

Wide

Great in degree;
Won by a wide margin

Wide

Great in range or scope;
An extended vocabulary
Surgeons with extended experience
Extensive examples of picture writing
Suffered extensive damage
A wide selection

Wide

Having ample fabric;
The current taste for wide trousers
A full skirt

Wide

Not on target;
The kick was wide
The arrow was wide of the mark
A claim that was wide of the truth

Wide

With or by a broad space;
Stand with legs wide apart
Ran wide around left end

Wide

To the fullest extent possible;
Open your eyes wide
With the throttle wide open

Wide

Far from the intended target;
The arrow went wide of the mark
A bullet went astray and killed a bystander

Wide

To or over a great extent or range; far;
Wandered wide through many lands
He traveled widely

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