wide
- Adjective. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- Adjective. Large in scope.
- Adjective. (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
- Adverb. extensively.
- Adverb. completely.
- Adverb. away from a given goal.
- 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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