Vide vs Wide - What's the difference?
vide | wide |
See; consult; refer to!
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Having a large physical extent from side to side.
Large in scope.
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, title= (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
* Massinger
(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.
* Milton
* 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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As a verb vide
is divide separate into parts, cleave asunder.As an adjective wide is
having a large physical extent from side to side.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.vide
English
Etymology 1
form of divide by aphesis.“vide, v. ¹]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989(dead)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .“?vide, v.''²'' imp.'']” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989] (dead)OED: [www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/vide ''vide''], [www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/v ''v(.)
Verb
(head) (singular imperative verb; plural videte )- (For comments, vide page 151).
Usage notes
Grammatically, this is the singular form, used to address one person. It is sometimes used invariantly to address more than one person, but a plural form also exists for this, videte .References
Anagrams
* * * * ----wide
English
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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