Adjective

(head)

(wide)

Adjective

(er)

Having a large physical extent from side to side.

Large in scope.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders

, title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}

(sports) 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.

* Spenser

Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand.

* Massinger

I was but two bows wide .

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

Remote; distant; far.

* Hammond

the contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God

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

* Milton

our wide expositors

* Latimer

It is far wide that the people have such judgments.

* Herbert

How wide is all this long pretence!

(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional representation.

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