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wide | larger |

As adjectives the difference between wide and larger

is that wide is having a large physical extent from side to side while larger is comparative of large.

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

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a large physical extent from side to side.
  • Large in scope.
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  • (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.
    • a wide''' character; a '''wide stream

    Antonyms

    * narrow (regarding empty area) * thin (regarding occupied area) * skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)

    Related terms

    * widely * widen * wideness * widescale * width * wide awake * wide of the mark * wide open * wide receiver * wide shot * wide-angle * wide-eyed * widescreen * widespread * worldwide

    Adverb

    (er)
  • extensively
    • He travelled far and wide .
  • completely
    • He was wide awake.
  • away from a given goal
    • The arrow fell wide of the mark.
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  • So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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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    larger

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (large)

    • large

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
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  • (obsolete) Abundant; ample.
  • * Milton
    • We have yet large day.
  • (archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
  • * Felton
    • I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.
  • (obsolete) Free; unencumbered.
  • * Fairfax
    • Of burdens all he set the Paynims large .
  • (obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Some large jests he will make.
  • (nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.

    • Synonyms

    (checksyns) * big, huge, giant, gigantic, enormous, stour, great, mickle, largeish * See also

    Antonyms

    * small, tiny, minuscule

    Derived terms

    * as large as life, larger than life * by and large * enlarge * give it large * have it large * large it, large up, large it up * largely * largeness * writ large * largish

    Noun

  • (music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
  • (obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
  • A thousand dollars.
    • Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large .

    Derived terms

    * at large

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