wide
/wɑed/ · noun
Meaning
- 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
- Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- Large in scope.
- Operating at the side of the playing area.
- On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
- Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
- (now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
- Extensively
- Completely
- Away from a given goal
- So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
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