wide

n. ball which misses the goal (in Cricket); expansive place (Archaic)

adv. to the most open position; to a great distance; to a great extent; completely; far to the left or to the right of a goal

adj. broad; having the breadth of; spacious; open, extended; far to the left or to the right of a goal; shrewd (Slang)

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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 high to be hit by the batsman, and ruled so by the umpire.A 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, nor does it count as a ball faced by the batsman.When a wide is bowled, a number of runs are awarded to the batting team, the number varying depending on local playing conditions in force. In Test cricket the award is one run; in some domestic competitions, particularly one-day cricket competitions, the award is two runs. These runs are scored as extras and are added to the team's total, but are not added to any batsman's total.
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Adjective
1. 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"
(synonym) broad
(antonym) narrow
(similar) beamy
(see-also) comprehensive
(attribute) width, breadth
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"
(synonym) across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing, panoptic
(similar) comprehensive
3. (used of eyes) fully open or extended; "listened in round-eyed wonder"; "stared with wide eyes"
(synonym) round-eyed, wide-eyed
(similar) open, opened
4. very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies"
(synonym) broad, spacious
(similar) large, big
5. great in degree; "won by a wide margin"
(antonym) narrow
(similar) comfortable
6. great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection"
(synonym) extended, extensive
(similar) considerable
7. having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt"
(synonym) wide-cut, full
(similar) ample
8. not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"
(synonym) wide of the mark
(similar) inaccurate
Adverb
1. 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"
(synonym) astray
4. to or over a great extent or range; far; "wandered wide through many lands"; "he traveled widely"
(synonym) widely

(superl.)
Remote; distant; far.
  

(superl.)
On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
  

(superl.)
Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding.
  

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

(superl.)
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 / (/ve) is / (/ll); of a (ate) is / (/nd), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13-15.
  

(superl.)
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.
  

(superl.)
Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference.
  

(superl.)
Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like.
  

(n.)
That which is wide; wide space; width; extent.
  

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

(adv.)
To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide.
  

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

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

Synonyms and related words:
aberrant, abroad, abstract, accented, adrift, advanced, afield, all abroad, all off, all wrong, alveolar, amiss, ample, amplitudinous, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, askew, assimilated, astray, at fault, awry, back, barytone, beside the mark, bilabial, bland, broad, broad-gauged, broad-minded, broadly, cacuminal, capacious, catholic, central, cerebral, checked, clear, close, collective, commodious, comprehensive, consonant, consonantal, continuant, copious, corrupt, cosmopolitan, deceptive, deep, defective, delusive, dental, deviant, deviational, deviative, diffuse, dissimilated, distantly and broadly, distorted, dorsal, ecumenical, ecumenistic, errant, erring, erroneous, expansive, extended, extending, extensive, fallacious, FALSE, far afield, far and near, far and wide, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, faultful, faulty, featureless, flat, flawed, front, full, general, generalized, generic, generous, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, heretical, heterodox, high, illogical, illusory, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscriminate, infinite, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, large-scale, lateral, lax, liberal, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nebulous, neutral, noninsular, nonspecific, not right, not true, occlusive, off, off the track, open, out, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, peccant, perverse, perverted, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, progressive, radical, retroflex, roomy, rounded, scopic, self-contradictory, semivowel, soft, sonant, spacious, spacious of mind, spreading, stopped, straying, stressed, strong, surd, sweeping, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tolerant, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unbigoted, uncharacterized, undifferentiated, unfactual, unfanatical, unhidebound, unorthodox, unparochial, unproved, unprovincial, unrounded, unspecified, unstressed, untrue, vague, vast, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, voluminous, vowel, vowellike, weak, wholesale, wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-minded, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widely, widespread, wrong