broadcast

1. 1

   Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.

   • The seed was broadcast, not drilled.
2. 2

   Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic means.

   • For radio-transmission it has been found that certain passages of a rhythmical nature come out more clearly if wooden-headed sticks are used. The Timpani sometimes tend to sound blurred and even to have a blurring effect on the rest of the
3. 3

   Relating to transmissions of messages or signals to many people through radio waves or electronic means.attributive

   • The new limitations would still prohibit foreigners from wholly or directly owning broadcast licensees, allowing only indirect ownership through a stake in a controlling parent of a broadcast licensee.

syn. widespread

1. 1

   Widely in all directions; abroad.

   • A special letter of warning against the ravages of the potato-tuber moth in the shape of a press notice has been sent broadcast to newspapers, as well as to others, throughout the country.
2. 2

   By having its seeds sown over a wide area.archaic

   • When [rape is] grown broadcast the superphosphate may be incorporated with the surface soil by the harrow when preparing the ground for the seed or in covering the same.

1. 1

   A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.

   • No one knows how long it will be until a broadcast from a studio in New York will be viewed in India as well as in Indiana, will be seen in the Congo as it is seen in Chicago. But as surely as we are meeting here today, that day will come;
   • After nearly 40 years of continuous broadcast in Hong Kong, a 24-hour transmission of the BBC World Service will go silent in the former British colony, replaced with programming from China's state radio channel. The move by Radio Televisio
2. 2

   A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.

   • The DJ was feeling nervous before his first national broadcast.
3. 3

   The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.archaic

   • Since my laſt, I went to ſee a piece of Daniel Fitch's, of Pluckley, Kent. He has two acres of broadcaſt, the oldeſt I have ever ſeen, ſown twenty years ago with barley, like clover.
   • It was stated by Mr. Miller, that the common method was, formerly, to sow the barley-seed with a broadcast at two sowings; the first being harrowed in once, but the second not until the seed is buried; […]

1. 1

   To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.transitive

   • When the boys reached the business section of Bayport they found that Jackley's confession had already become known. The local radio station had broadcast it in the afternoon news program and people everywhere were discussing it.
   • The TV is broadcasting a FUZZY PICTURE that shows the weatherman from WVII, the Bango ABC affiliate.
2. 2

   To transmit a message over a wide area.transitive

   • However, truth and lies can usually be confirmed or denied by speaking with eyewitnesses of events in order to verify what took place. The amount of time separating the event in question from when it was broadcasted also makes a difference.
3. 3

   To transmit a message over a wide area.; To send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.specificallytransitive

   • Urban legend has it that someone is monitoring all those e-mails broadcast from your work address. Hard to imagine a more boring job but the truth is, and I shouldn't have to tell people this, the record of those e-mails is in a server some
4. 4

   To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.intransitive

   • She [Françoise Dolto] is most well known in France for her broadcasts on France-Inter, Lorsque l'enfant parait; she broadcasted for twelve minutes every day of the week for two years, answering parents' questions.
5. 5

   To sow seeds over a wide area.archaictransitive

   • I wanted to grow my own cut flowers for the big day so three months earlier I broadcasted an annual seed mix across a few recently cleared borders.