Word Finder - widest

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Having a large physical extent from side to side.

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We walked down a wide corridor.

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Large in scope.

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The inquiry had a wide remit.

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Operating at the side of the playing area.

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That team needs a decent wide player.

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On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

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Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.

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Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.

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(now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.

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The wide, lifeless expanse.

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Located some distance away; distant, far.

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Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.

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Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.

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a wide character; a wide stream

Chinese has the widest capacity of any tongue ever invented.

In the widest sense it may include both the " first philosophy " of Aristotle, and the theory of knowledge (in what sense can there be true knowledge?), i.e.

It is also used even more loosely as synonymous in the widest sense with "idea," "notion."

But, on the other hand, the principal power, the widest sovereignty, which the British overthrew in India was that of the Mahrattas.

Built on the left bank of the Adige, in the widest portion of the Val Lagarina (the name given to the Adige valley from Acquaviva, above Rovereto, to the Italian frontier), it is divided into two parts by the Leno torrent.

The widest areas are in Zululand.

The beautiful Public Garden and the finest residential quarter of the city - the Back Bay, so called from that inner harbour from whose waters it was reclaimed (1856-1886) - stand on what was once the narrowest, but to-day is the widest and fairest portion of the original site.

The events with which he was connected were many, tragic and of the widest European interest.

The genus Peziza (in its widest sense) may be taken as the type of the group. Most of them grow on living plants or on dead vegetable remains, very often on fallen wood; a number, however, are found growing on earth which is rich in humus.

It is probable that these stems belonged to plants with the fructification and foliage of Cycads, taking that group in the widest sense.

The Denominational.-The course of denominational work may be seen in the way in which the London Society and the American Board were gradually left to the Congregationalists, it being recognized that while fraternity was maintained, the widest results could only be obtained as appeal was made directly to the members of each separate denomination.

Used in its widest sense this includes the Hysteriaceae, Phacidiaceae, Helvellaceae, &c. The group is characterized in general by the possession of an ascocarp which, though usually a completely closed structure during the earlier stages of development, at maturity opens out to form a bowl or saucer-shaped organ, thus completely exposing the layer of asci which forms the hymenium.

The chamber is seen in a perfectly symmetrical perspective, its rear wall pierced by three plain openings which admit the sense of quiet distance and mystery from the open landscape beyond; by the central of these openings, which is the widest of the three, the head and.

Its technical name is the property and income tax, but it is essentially a charge upon all incomes or profits, whether arising from property, or from the remuneration of personal services, or from annuities, income being applied with the widest possible meaning.

C. sclerops, the spectacled alligator, has the widest distribution, from southern Mexico to the northern half of Argentina, and grows to a bulky size.

Not only had Michael succeeded in rolling back for a time the tide of Turkish conquest, but for the first and last time in modern history he united what once had been Trajan's Dacia, in its widest extent, and with it the whole Ruman race north of the Danube, under a single sceptre.

Sulphuric acid has the widest commercial application of all chemical reagents.

Perhaps the widest meaning ever attached to the word was that of R.A.F.

The influence of literature on Burke lay partly in the direction of emancipation from the mechanical formulae of practical politics; partly in the association which it engendered, in a powerful understanding like his, between politics and the moral forces of the world, and between political maxims and the old and great sentences of morals; partly in drawing him, even when resting his case on prudence and expediency, to appeal to the widest and highest sympathies; partly, and more than all, in opening his thoughts to the many conditions, possibilities and "varieties of untried being," in human character and situation, and so giving an incomparable flexibility to his methods of political approach.

The family with the widest distribution is the Soricidae, the Talpidae being unknown in Africa.

Although Adams's researches on Neptune were those which attracted widest notice, the work he subsequently performed in relation to gravitational astronomy and terrestrial magnetism was not less remarkable.

Definition And Subject-Matter Of Ethics In its widest sense, the term " ethics " would imply an examination into the general character or habits of mankind, and would even involve a description or history of the habits of men in particular societies living at different periods of time.

The subject matter of astronomical science, considered in its widest range, comprehends all the matter of the universe which lies outside the limit of the earth's atmosphere.

Practical Astronomy, taken in its widest sense, treats of the instruments by which our knowledge of the heavenly bodies is acquired, the principles underlying their use, and the methods by which these principles are practically applied.

Now the rule of etiquette which forbids seeing or naming the husband (especially the latter) is of the widest distribution.

Meyer has shown, for Syria in its widest extent.

At the spot where the Zambezi is at its widest -- over 1860 yds.

The most important of these processes is the first, as it is applicable to a large number of substances of the widest range, such as oil of peppermintand camphor.

Speaking in the widest sense, every substance has an action on living protoplasm, but for convenience pharmacological substances have come to be limited to those which are used as drugs, or which have a distinct action upon the animal organism.

The red fox has the widest geographical range of any wild carnivore, thriving in habitats from woodland and desert to city center.

Chocolate Trading Company retails the widest selection of premium chocolates from around the world, from over 15 leading chocolatiers.

Let it be observed, however, that there is the widest difference between that and a purely forensic procedure.

As a wise trade union functionary, he said the widest possible debate was always desirable.

The ALI has the widest remit yet for adult learning.

Whatever your political persuasion, the CEP attracts members from the widest of groups.

To do this we shall offer the widest and most comprehensive range of Make-up Services, matched with highly skilled, trained professionals.

They also have impressive displays of cowslips, small scabious and devil's-bit scabious and the widest range of orchids on the reserve.

We promised that a Labor Government would extend social insurance over the widest field.

Large suppliers will offer you the widest choice while specialist stationers can give you a more personal product.

Tue HabitatThe term habitat, in its widest sense, includes all the factors of the environment which affect a plant or a plant community, though the term is frequently used to signify only some of these factors.

This elastic application renders it impossible in the following sketch of the history of ornithology to draw any sharp distinction between works that are emphatically ornithological and_those to which that title can only be attached by courtesy; for, since birds have always attracted far greater attention than any other group of animals with which in number or in importance they can be compared, there has grown up concerning them a literature of corresponding magnitude and of the widest range, extending from the recondite and laborious investigations of the morphologist and anatomist to the casual observations of the sportsman or the schoolboy.

Prosecutions 2 The term "Protestant" is used here in its widest sense of those Churches which reformed their doctrine and discipline as a result of the religious revolution of the 16th century (see Reformation).

Its existence as a science could never have been recognized so long as the subjects of physics, chemistry and biology, in the widest acceptation of the term, remained unevolved.

Here was an orator who could apply all the resources of a burnished rhetoric to the elucidation of figures; who could sweep the widest horizon of the financial future, and yet stoop to bestow the minutest attention on the microcosm of penny stamps and post-horses.

Russinia (Sub-Carpathian Russia) is granted the widest possible autonomy compatible with the integrity of the Czechoslovak Republic. The Chamber of Deputies is elected for six years, the Senate for eight.

In both classes, accepted tradition (written or oral) was reinterpreted in order to justify or to deduce new teaching (in its widest sense), to connect the present with a hallowed past, and to be a guide for the future; and the prevalence of this process, the innumerable different examples of its working, and the particular application of the term Midrash to an important section of Rabbinical literature complicates both the study of the subject and any attempt to treat it concisely.'

With the widest range of holidays available, all linked to the most punctual charter airline, your bound to find the perfect holiday.

Entertainment in the widest sense is provided by the hosts and the whole process is reciprocated when the visit is the other way.

In this particular exercise we want to find all genes involved in the widest sense in the threonine metabolism.

Through its subsidiaries, Compass Group can offer the widest choice of vending solutions to the market.