Broad vs Lake - What's the difference?
broad | lake |
Wide in extent or scope.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
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, title= Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
* Bishop Porteus
Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained.
* John Locke
Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
* D. Daggett
* E. Everett
Plain; evident.
Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
* Shakespeare
(dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.
(of an accent) Strongly regional.
(Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
(dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
(US) A woman or girl.
(UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
A large, landlocked stretch of water.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake . I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
A large amount of liquid; as , a wine lake.
* 1991 , (Robert DeNiro) (actor), :
(obsolete) To present an offering.
(chiefly, dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
To make lake-red.
(obsolete) To play; to sport.
As nouns the difference between broad and lake
is that broad is (dated) a prostitute, a woman of loose morals while lake is , valley.As an adjective broad
is wide in extent or scope.broad
English
Adjective
(er)- three feet broad
- the broad expanse of ocean
Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?, passage=Julia Farrington, head of arts at Index on Censorship, argues that extra powers to ban violent videos online will "end up too broad and open to misapplication, which would damage freedom of expression".}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
- broad and open day
- a broad mixture of falsehood
- The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.
- in a broad , statesmanlike, and masterly way
- a broad hint
- as broad and general as the casing air
- a broad''' compliment; a '''broad''' joke; '''broad humour
Antonyms
* * (Regarding body width) * (Not palatalized)Derived terms
* breadth * broaden * broad across the beam * broad in the beam * broadscale * broad strokes * broadsword * broad church * broadcloth * broad agreementNoun
(en noun)- Who was that broad I saw you with?
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* See also * See also * See alsoSee also
*Anagrams
* * * ----lake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Despite their similarity in form and meaning, (etyl) lake is not related to (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before'' or ''after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?