broad

• WordNet 3.6
  • adj broad showing or characterized by broad-mindedness "a broad political stance","generous and broad sympathies","a liberal newspaper","tolerant of his opponent's opinions"
  • adj broad lacking subtlety; obvious "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave"
  • adj broad broad in scope or content "across-the-board pay increases","an all-embracing definition","blanket sanctions against human-rights violators","an invention with broad applications","a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner","granted him wide powers"
  • adj broad not detailed or specific "a broad rule","the broad outlines of the plan","felt an unspecific dread"
  • adj broad being at a peak or culminating point "broad daylight","full summer"
  • adj broad (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional "a broad southern accent"
  • adj broad very large in expanse or scope "a broad lawn","the wide plains","a spacious view","spacious skies"
  • adj broad having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other "wide roads","a wide necktie","wide margins","three feet wide","a river two miles broad","broad shoulders","a broad river"
  • n broad slang term for a woman "a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"
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• Interesting fact: The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessal is so broad, that a person could swim through it.
• • Broad A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
  • Broad A woman, especially one who is sexually promiscuous; -- usually considered offensive.
  • Broad (Fine Arts) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
  • Broad Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. "The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.""In a broad , statesmanlike, and masterly way."
  • Broad Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
  • Broad Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. "Broad and open day."
  • Broad Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
  • Broad Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive. "A broad mixture of falsehood."
  • Broad Free; unrestrained; unconfined. "As broad and general as the casing air."
  • Broad Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
  • Broad Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent. "It is as broad as long , whether they rise to others, or bring others down to them."
  • Broad The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
  • Broad The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
  • Broad Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad .
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• • broad Wide; having great breadth, as distinguished from length and thickness; used absolutely, having much width or breadth; not narrow: as, a strip no broader than one's hand; a broad river or street.
  • broad Large superficially; extensive; vast: as, the broad expanse of ocean.
  • broad Figuratively, not limited or narrow; liberal; comprehensive; enlarged: as, a man of broad views.
  • broad Specifically Inclined to the Broad Church, or to the views held by the Broad-Church party of the Church of England. See Episcopal.
  • broad Large in measure or degree; not small or slight; ample; consummate.
  • broad Widely diffused; open; full: as, in broad sunshine; broad daylight.
  • broad Unconfined; free; unrestrained. Used absolutely.
  • broad Unrestrained by a sense of propriety or fitness; unpolished; loutish.
  • broad Unrestrained by considerations of decency; indelicate; indecent.
  • broad Unrestrained by fear or caution; bold; unreserved.
  • broad Characterized by a full, strong utterance; coarsely vigorous; not weak or slender in sound: as, broad Scotch; broad Doric; a broad vowel, such as ä or â or ō.
  • broad Plain; evident.
  • broad In the fine arts, characterized by breadth: as, a picture remarkable for the broad treatment of its subject. See breadth, 3.
  • n broad A shallow, fenny lake formed by the expansion of a river over adjacent flat land covered more or less with a reedy growth; a flooded fen, or lake in a fen: as, the Norfolk broads.
  • n broad In mech., a tool used for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders in the lathe.
  • n broad An English coin first issued in 1619 by James I., and worth at the time 20s. The coin was also issued subsequently. Also called laurel and broad-piece.
  • broad Broadly; openly; plainly.
  • broad Widely; copiously; abundantly.
  • broad Broadly; fully.
  • broad To make broad; spread.
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• • adj Broad brawd wide: large, free or open: outspoken: coarse, indelicate: of pronunciation, e.g. a broad accent
  • adv Broad by throwing at large from the hand, only in phrases, as, 'to scatter broadcast,' &c
  • v.t Broad to scatter freely
  • v.i Broad to grow broad or extend in breadth
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• William Shakespeare

  

  “Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.”
• Ambrose Bierce

  

  “Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.”
• Robert Frost

  

  “A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.”
• Professor Blackie

  

  “Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.”
• Phillips Brooks

  

  “Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.”
• John Morley

  

  “Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.”

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