broadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔːdkɑːst/
ipa: /-kæst/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔːdkast/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔdkæst/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑdkæst/
rhymes: -ɔːdkɑːst
rhymes: -ɔːdkæst
rhymes: (Canada) -ɑdkæst
Forms: form: broadcasts
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
English broadcast
From broad + cast.
 First attested in the mid 18th century, in the agricultural use of spreading seeds.
Senses: examples: text: 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; and once again our world will shrink.
ref: 1961 May 9, Newton Minow, Television and the Public Interest:
text: 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 Television Hong Kong, owned by the local government, was meant to "enhance the cultural exchange between the mainland and Hong Kong", a spokesman said.
ref: 2017 August 13, Benjamin Haas, “Radio silence: 24-hour broadcast of BBC World Service dropped in Hong Kong: After four decades in the former British colony, BBC World Service is to be mostly replaced with China’s state radio channel”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2017:
glosses: A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
examples: text: The DJ was feeling nervous before his first national broadcast.
text: We interrupt this broadcast at the request of the police department to bring you the following special bulletin: The dead body of Miss Paula Canfield, missing student at Westlake University and daughter of the multi-millionaire Harold Canfield, has been found in the Arroyo Seco near the Colorado Street Bridge.
ref: 1943, Wilfrid H. Pettitt, Nine Girls: A Play in Prologue and Two Acts, Chicago, Ill.: The Dramatic Publishing Company, →OCLC; republished Woodstock, Ill.: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1971, →ISBN, act I, scene i, pages 15–16:
text: Radio Free Europe was established by a group of private citizens in December 1949, for the purpose of conducting a propaganda campaign against six Communist-dominated satellites in central and eastern Europe. […] Its program consisted of daily half-hour broadcasts, first to Czechoslovakia and then to Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Rumania, and Albania.
ref: 1958, Robert T. Holt, “Introduction”, in Radio Free Europe, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →OCLC, page 3:
antonyms: narrowcast
glosses: A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1785, W. Belcher, “Observations on Lucerne”, in Arthur Young (agriculturist), editor, Annals of Agriculture, and Other Useful Arts, volume III, number 18, London: Printed for the editor, and sold by H. Goldney, No. 15, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, page 433:
text: 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; […]
ref: 1807, “BARLEY”, in The Complete Farmer; or, General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry: Comprehending the Most Improved Methods of Cultivation; the Different Modes of Raising Timber, Fruit, and Other Trees; and the Modern Management of Live-stock: With Descriptions of the Most Approved Implements, Machinery, and Farm-buildings, 5th wholly re-written and enlarged edition, London: Printed by Rider and Weed, Little Britain, for R. Baldwin [et al.], →OCLC, column 2:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.
Derived terms: anycast
blogcast
broadcastability
broadcastable
broadcast delay
broadcast jockey
broadcast radiation
broadcast station
broadcast storm
cablecast
cybercast
direct broadcast satellite
fancast
lifecast
microbroadcast
multicast
narrowcast
newscast
nonbroadcast
party political broadcast
podcast
postbroadcast
prebroadcast
radiobroadcast
telebroadcast
webcast