How to pronounce “wide”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Having a large physical extent from side to side.
• Large in scope.
• (slang, derogatory, humorous) Overweight, obese.
• (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.
• (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
• (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
• (obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far. [15th–19th c.]
• (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
• (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
• (British, slang, only in "wide boy") Sharp-witted.
• [Adverb]
• extensively
• completely
• away from or to one side of a given goal
• So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
• [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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