Wide vs Systemwide - What's the difference?
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Having a large physical extent from side to side.
Large in scope.
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On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
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(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
(obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
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* Latimer
* Herbert
(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional representation.
extensively
completely
away from a given goal
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So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
(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
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Systemwide is a alternative form of wide.
As adjectives the difference between wide and systemwide
is that wide is having a large physical extent from side to side while systemwide is throughout a system.As an adverb wide
is extensively.As a noun wide
is 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
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Adjective
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- Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand.
- I was but two bows wide .
- the contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God
- our wide expositors
- It is far wide that the people have such judgments.
- How wide is all this long pretence!
- a wide''' character; a '''wide stream
Antonyms
* narrow (regarding empty area) * thin (regarding occupied area) * skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)Adverb
(er)- He travelled far and wide .
- He was wide awake.
- The arrow fell wide of the mark.
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