Widespread vs Global - What's the difference?
widespread | global |
Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Spherical, ball-shaped.
(not comparable) Of or relating to a globe or sphere.
Concerning all parts of the world.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (not comparable, computing) Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.
As adjectives the difference between widespread and global
is that widespread is affecting a large area (eg the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused while global is spherical, ball-shaped.As a noun global is
(computing) a globally scoped identifier.widespread
English
Adjective
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic
Synonyms
* extensive, pervasive, prevalent, ubiquitous, universalAntonyms
* limitedglobal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}