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Wider vs Widder - What's the difference?

wider | widder |

As an adjective wider

is comparative of wide.

As a noun widder is

eye dialect of lang=en.

wider

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (wide)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    wide

    English

    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.
  • a wide''' character; a '''wide stream

    Antonyms

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

    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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.}}
  • 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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    widder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1858, author=Various, title=The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=At the sewing- society the matter was fully discussed. Mrs. Greenfield, the doctor's wife, admitted that it would be an excellent match, "jest a child apiece, both on 'em well brought up, used to good company, and all that; but, land's sakes! he, with his mint o' money, a'n't a-goin' to marry a poor widder that ha'n't got nothin' but her husband's pictur' and her boy,--not he!" }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1884, author=William O. Stoddard, title=Dab Kinzer, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=And then, before the public mind had become sufficiently settled to inquire into the matter, the rumor changed itself into a piece of positive news:-- "The widder Kinzer's moved over into Ham's house, bag and baggage." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles W. Chesnutt, title=The Marrow of Tradition, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=She wuz a widder fer de secon' time, an' didn' have no child'en, an' could jes' as well come as not. " }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Marie Conway Oemler, title=The Purple Heights, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=I wouldn't like the missus to be a widder : she's too darn good-lookin'." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1958, author=Robert W. Service, title=Ballads of a Bohemian, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=There was five of us lads from the brickyard; 'Enry was gassed at Bapome, Sydney was drowned in a crater, 'Erbert was 'alved by a shell; Joe was the pick o' the posy, might 'a bin sifely at 'ome, Only son of 'is mother, 'er a widder as well. }}