Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To communicate or transmit (a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming) to numerous recipients simultaneously over a communication network.
- intransitive verb To make known over a wide area: synonym: announce.
- intransitive verb To sow (seed) over a wide area, especially by hand.
- intransitive verb To communicate or transmit a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming, to numerous recipients simultaneously over a communication network.
- noun The act or process of broadcasting a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming.
- noun A signal, message, or audio or video program that is broadcast over a communication network.
- noun The act of scattering seed.
- adjective Communicated or transmitted by means of broadcasting, as over a communications network.
- adjective Of or relating to the broadcasting of audio or video content over communication networks, as in television or radio.
- adjective Widely known.
- adjective Scattered over a wide area.
- adverb In a scattered manner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In agriculture, a method of sowing in which the seed is thrown from the hand in handfuls.
- Cast or dispersed upon the ground with the hand, as seed in sowing: opposed to sowed in drills or rows.
- Widely spread or diffused.
- To sow broadcast.
- By scattering or throwing at large from the hand: as, to sow broadcast.
- So as to disseminate widely; in wide dissemination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Agric.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
- noun an act of broadcasting; specifically, a program in which sounds or images are transmitted in all directions from a radio or television station; -- usually referring to a scheduled program on a commercial or public service radio or television station, using the normal radio frequencies for those media, in contrast to a radiotelephone conversation, which may also be transmitted in all directions, but is intended for receipt by a base station in the telephone network.
- adjective Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
- adjective Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.
- adverb So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.
- verb to cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely.
- verb to transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station.
- verb to disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station.
- verb to spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective cast or
scattered widely, in all directions - noun A
transmission of aradio ortelevision programme aired to be received by anyone with areceiver . - noun A programme (
show ,bulletin ,documentary ...) so transmitted. - noun dated The act of
scattering seed . - verb To
transmit a message or signal via radio waves or electronic means - verb To
transmit a message over a wide area - verb To
appear asspeaker ,presenter orperformer in a broadcast program - verb archaic To
sow seeds over a wide area - verb To send an
email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people - verb Simple past tense and past participle of broadcast.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun message that is transmitted by radio or television
- verb broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
- verb sow over a wide area, especially by hand
- noun a radio or television show
- verb cause to become widely known
Etymologies
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Examples
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•A seamless subscriber experience •across broadcast & unicast channels •broadcast for mass market •3G / LTE for narrowcast / VOD • in full screen mode A Seamless Rich-Media User Experience
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Surely the most significant feature of this broadcast is the unprofessional way in which I took the sheep coat off my youngest towards the end.
Plaid on your side 2008
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I have to say - despite some reservations - Tim is by far the best among what we called broadcast journalists today.
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Then the seed was sown as the grass seed was, that is, by the method we term broadcast sowing.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw
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She's terrified about what's going on and doesn't want her name broadcast.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Imagine if he did become president: he could be telling the world, in a live broadcast from the Oval Office, that he had, on a whim, pre-emptively launched a nuclear strike on Belgium, and no one would pay any attention because we would all be transfixed by his hair.
Danny Groner: Donald Trump's Hair and the Presidency Danny Groner 2010
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Lead commentators, Don Cherry and Ron MacLean broadcast from a remote area.
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Five hundred watched a live broadcast from the student center.
Declan Sullivan Mourned At Notre Dame The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Imagine if he did become president: he could be telling the world, in a live broadcast from the Oval Office, that he had, on a whim, pre-emptively launched a nuclear strike on Belgium, and no one would pay any attention because we would all be transfixed by his hair.
Danny Groner: Donald Trump's Hair and the Presidency Danny Groner 2010
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Imagine if he did become president: he could be telling the world, in a live broadcast from the Oval Office, that he had, on a whim, pre-emptively launched a nuclear strike on Belgium, and no one would pay any attention because we would all be transfixed by his hair.
Danny Groner: Donald Trump's Hair and the Presidency Danny Groner 2010
brtom commented on the word broadcast
Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
oroboros commented on the word broadcast
An all female theatre production. (from Wiley's Dictionary, B.C. Comic)
February 9, 2013