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broadcast
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun broadcast has 2 senses
- broadcast(n = noun.communication) Array - message that is transmitted by radio or television; Array is a kind of message
- broadcast(n = noun.communication) program, programme - a radio or television show; "did you see his program last night?" is a kind of show
has particulars: rebroadcast, radio broadcast, simulcast, telecast, newscast
Derived forms verb broadcast3, verb broadcast1
has particulars: news, news program, news show, rerun, chat show, talk show, television program, television show, tv program, tv show, game show, giveaway, serial, series, episode, installment, instalment, sustaining program
Derived forms verb broadcast3, verb broadcast1
Verb broadcast has 3 senses
- broadcast(v = verb.communication) air, beam, send, transmit - broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song" is one way to air, bare, publicise, publicize
- broadcast(v = verb.contact) Array - sow over a wide area, especially by hand; "broadcast seeds" is one way to seed, sow
- broadcast(v = verb.communication) circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread - cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" is one way to air, bare, publicise, publicize
Derived forms noun broadcast1, noun broadcast2, noun broadcaster1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Derived form noun broadcaster2
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived forms noun broadcast1, noun broadcast2
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
broadcast, n.
- A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [PJC]
broadcast, a.
- Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused. [1913 Webster]
- Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows. [1913 Webster]
broadcast, adv.
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. [1913 Webster]
broadcast, v.
- to cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely. [1913 Webster]
- to transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station. [PJC]
- to disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station. [PJC]
- to spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
broadcast, v., n., adj., & adv.
--v. (past broadcast or broadcasted; past part. broadcast)
1 tr. transmit (programmes or information) by radio or television.
2 intr. undertake or take part in a radio or television transmission.
3 tr. scatter (seed etc.) over a large area, esp. by hand.
--n. a radio or television programme or transmission.
--adj.
1 transmitted by radio or television.
2 a scattered widely. b (of information etc.) widely disseminated.
--adv. over a large area.
--v. (past broadcast or broadcasted; past part. broadcast)
1 tr. transmit (programmes or information) by radio or television.
2 intr. undertake or take part in a radio or television transmission.
3 tr. scatter (seed etc.) over a large area, esp. by hand.
--n. a radio or television programme or transmission.
--adj.
1 transmitted by radio or television.
2 a scattered widely. b (of information etc.) widely disseminated.
--adv. over a large area.
Derivative
broadcaster n. broadcasting n.
Etymology
BROAD + CAST past part.
THESAURUS
broadcast
accessible, advertise, advertisement, affirmed, air, airing, announce, announced, announcement, annunciate, attenuation, bandying, beam, bed, bestrew, blazon, book, broadcasting, brought to notice, bruit about, bruiting, bruiting about, canned show, circulated, circulation, circumfuse, circumfusion, commercial, commercial program, common knowledge, common property, communicate, convey, current, deal out, declared, dibble, diffract, diffraction, diffuse, diffused, diffusion, dilution, discrete, dispensation, dispense, dispersal, disperse, dispersed, dispersion, display, dispread, disseminate, disseminated, dissemination, dissipated, dissipation, distribute, distributed, distribution, diverge, divergence, drill, electrical transcription, evaporation, evulgation, expansion, fan out, forest, fragmentation, get across, get over, give, give word, hand on, impart, implant, in circulation, in print, inseminate, insemination, issuance, issue, leave word, made public, make known, network show, newscast, open, overscatter, oversow, overspread, pass, pass along, pass on, peppering, periodical, plant, planting, pot, printing, proclaim, proclaimed, proclamation, promulgate, promulgation, pronouncement, pronunciamento, propagate, propagated, propagation, public, publication, publish, published, publishing, put in, radiate, radiation, radio, radio fare, radiobroadcast, rebroadcast, reforest, reforestation, relay, render, report, reported, rerun, reset, resetting, retail, retimber, retimbering, scatter, scatter seed, scattered, scattering, scatterment, seed, seed down, seeding, seminate, semination, send, send word, serial, set, setting, share, share with, shortwave, shotgun pattern, show, sign off, sign on, signal, soap opera, sound effects, sow, sow broadcast, sowing, sparse, spattering, splay, sporadic, sportscast, spread, spread out, spreading, spreading abroad, sprinkling, stated, straggling, straggly, straw, strew, strewing, strewn, strown, sustainer, taped program, telecast, telecasting, televise, televised, tell, transfer, transmission, transmit, transplant, transplantation, utter, ventilation, volatilization, widespread, wirelessROGET THESAURUS
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Dispersion
VB disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute, apportion, blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off, strew, straw, strow, ted, spirtle, cast, sprinkle, issue, deal out, retail, utter, resperse, intersperse, set abroach, circumfuse, turn adrift, cast adrift, scatter to the winds, spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.N nonassemblage, dispersion, dispersion, disjunction, divergence, aspersion, scattering, dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution, apportionment, spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction, affusion, waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra waveson, unassembled &c (assemble), dispersed, sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread, epidemic, adrift, stray, disheveled, streaming, sparsim, here and there, passim.
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