broadcast
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
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.
Inflected forms:
form: more broadcast
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most broadcast
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more broadcast
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most broadcast
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: broadcasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: broadcasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: broadcasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: broadcast
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: broadcast
pos: verb
tags: past
form: broadcasted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
participle
past
proscribed
sometimes
form: broadcasted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
past
proscribed
sometimes
Senses:
gloss: Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.
pos: adj
examples: The seed was broadcast, not drilled.
And ſuch a double Sowing is of the greateſt Importance; for on the thick Growth of a Crop very much depends on the Bigneſs of it at Harveſt, becauſe, by ſuch a thick Growth, the Weeds are overcome and kept down from hurting the Oats; and, likewiſe, the Heats and Droughts kept the better out from parching up the Roots of the Oats, which, in too thin a Crop, often prove fatal to it; for, when Oats are ſown in the random or broadcaſt Way, there is no more Mold allowed their Roots than what the Harrows and Roll give them; which, at beſt, is but a ſuperficial and moſt thin Covering, and, therefore, the more liable to ſuffer by Droughts, which is different from the Way of ſowing Oats in Drills.
They alleged that, as soon as the Opium Commission was appointed, the various anti-opium organisations began to be extremely active and a determined campaign was carried on against the use of the drug by the circulation of a mass of anti-opium literature and the broadcast distribution of handbills and pamphlets.
There must be action on and participation in broadcast methods of public education, face to face, in groups, or by use of the mails. This, however, is of secondary importance to the man-to-man job of education in care with fire in the woods.
gloss: Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic means.
pos: adj
examples: 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 orchestral ensemble in broadcast music, when ordinary soft sticks are used in a strongly marked rhythm.
gloss: Relating to transmissions of messages or signals to many people through radio waves or electronic means.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
examples: 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.
gloss: Widely in all directions; abroad.
pos: adv
examples: [O]n reporting to Captain Thrasher he informed me that his orders were to take a detachment of forty men across the French Broad River and turn them loose to wander broadcast over the country as a protection to foraging parties of quartermasters and commissaries, […]
The commercial traveller, a personage unknown to antiquity, is one of the striking figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. […] Our century will bind the realm of isolated power, abounding as it does in creative genius, to the realm of universal but levelling might; equalizing all products, spreading them broadcast among the masses, and being itself controlled by the principle of unity,—the final expression of all societies.
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.
gloss: By having its seeds sown over a wide area.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
examples: 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.
gloss: A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.
pos: noun
examples: The DJ was feeling nervous before his first national broadcast.
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.
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.
gloss: The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: 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; […]
gloss: To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Practicing vocational service to the limit of one's vision makes a difference whether an employer regards his employees as "robots or human beings"; it makes a difference in the kind of advertisements he publishes or broadcasts; it makes a difference how he reacts under pressure from a competitor; it makes a difference in the quality of his service.
The TV is broadcasting a FUZZY PICTURE that shows the weatherman from WVII, the Bango ABC affiliate.
The state of Rhode Island was the scene, on October 30, 1974, of yet another scare involving an adaptation of The War of the Worlds. Broadcast on radio station WPRO, Providence, the drama frightened listeners across the state. The play began with reporters covering a "meteor crash" near Jamestown, the purported Martian landing site. […] City fire stations and other radio and TV outlets reported being inundated with inquiries from anxious callers, as was WPRO, which received more than a hundred calls.
The Royal Shakespeare Company will today become the first theatre in the UK to broadcast Shakespeare direct into schools. A production of Richard II, starring David Tennant in the title role, is going to be streamed free of charge into classrooms up and down the country.
I wanna tell you things and show you all the rest / Broadcast my emotions on the radio and take them off my chest / I hope you're listening / Are you? Are you?
gloss: To transmit a message over a wide area.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The break with imperialism and the liberation of Russia from the predatory war, the publication of the secret treaties and the solemn abrogation of the policy of seizing foreign soil, the proclamation of national freedom and the recognition of the independence of Finland, the declaration of Russia as a "Federation of Soviet National Republics" and the militant battle-cry of a resolute struggle against imperialism broadcast all over the world by the Soviet government in millions of pamphlets, newspapers, and leaflets in the mother tongues of the peoples of the East and West—all this could not fail to have its effect on the enslaved East and the bleeding West.
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.
gloss: To transmit a message over a wide area.
pos: verb
tags: specifically
transitive
examples: 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 somewhere and it can be monitored.
gloss: To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To sow seeds over a wide area.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: I ſhall content myſelf, […] to ſay that the ſeed ſhoud be ſown in the garden, or very good ground, in rows, or broadcaſt, and as ſoon as the plants are of the ſize of a gooſe-quill, to be tranſplanted in rows of eighteen inches diſtance, and eighteen inches apart, one plant from the other: […]
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.
Synonyms: widespread
Derived words: anycast
blogcast
broadcastability
broadcastable
broadcast delay
broadcast jockey
broadcast radiation
broadcast station
broadcast storm
cablecast
direct broadcast satellite
lifecast
microbroadcast
multicast
newscast
party political broadcast
podcast
postbroadcast
prebroadcast
telebroadcast
webcast
cybercast
fancast
narrowcast
nonbroadcast
radiobroadcast
broadcaster
broadcasting
peercast
pointcast
rebroadcast
simulcast
sodcast
unbroadcast
unbroadcasted
unicast
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: emision
lang: Arabic
word: بَرْنَامَج
roman: barnāmaj
lang: Belarusian
word: перада́ча
roman: pjeradáča
lang: Belarusian
word: прагра́ма
roman: prahráma
lang: Bulgarian
word: преда́ване
roman: predávane
lang: Bulgarian
word: програ́ма
roman: prográma
lang: Catalan
word: programa
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 節目 /节目
roman: jiémù
lang: Czech
word: program
lang: Czech
word: pořad
lang: Czech
word: relace
lang: Danish
word: udsendelse
lang: Danish
word: program
lang: Dutch
word: uitzending
lang: Dutch
word: programma
lang: Faroese
word: sending
lang: Finnish
word: lähetys
lang: French
word: émission
lang: Georgian
word: გადაცემა
roman: gadacema
lang: German
word: Sendung
lang: Greek
word: εκπομπή
roman: ekpompí
lang: Greek
word: μετάδοση
roman: metádosi
lang: Greek
word: πρόγραμμα
roman: prógramma
lang: Hebrew
word: שידור \ שִׁדּוּר
roman: shidúr
lang: Hungarian
word: adás
lang: Indonesian
word: siaran
lang: Irish
word: craoladh
lang: Italian
word: programma
lang: Japanese
word: 番組
roman: bangumi
lang: Kazakh
word: бағдарлама
roman: bağdarlama
lang: Korean
word: 프로그램
roman: peurogeuraem
lang: Korean
word: 프로
roman: peuro
lang: Kyrgyz
word: уктуруу
roman: ukturuu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: берүү
roman: berüü
lang: Macedonian
word: емисија
roman: emisija
lang: Macedonian
word: програма
roman: programa
lang: Malay
word: siaran
lang: Māori
word: pāho
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: program
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: utsending
lang: Iranian Persian
word: بَرْنامِه
roman: barnâme
lang: Polish
word: audycja
lang: Polish
word: emisja
lang: Polish
word: program
lang: Portuguese
word: transmissão
lang: Romanian
word: emisiune
lang: Russian
word: переда́ча
roman: peredáča
lang: Russian
word: програ́мма
roman: prográmma
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: емѝсија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: про̀грам
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: emìsija
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prògram
lang: Slovak
word: program
lang: Slovak
word: relácia
lang: Slovene
word: program
lang: Slovene
word: oddaja
lang: Spanish
word: programa
lang: Spanish
word: emisión
lang: Swedish
word: program
lang: Swedish
word: sändning
lang: Tajik
word: барнома
roman: barnoma
lang: Thai
word: รายการ
roman: raai-gaan
lang: Thai
word: โปรแกรม
roman: bproo-grɛm
lang: Turkish
word: yayın
lang: Turkmen
word: ýaýlym
lang: Turkmen
word: veriliş
lang: Ukrainian
word: переда́ча
roman: peredáča
lang: Ukrainian
word: програ́ма
roman: prohráma
lang: Urdu
word: نَشْرِیَہ
roman: naśriya
lang: Uzbek
word: yoyin
lang: Bulgarian
word: разпространя́вам
roman: razprostranjávam
lang: Finnish
word: levittää
lang: Galician
word: transmitir
lang: Galician
word: emitir
lang: Galician
word: retransmitir
lang: Galician
word: televisar
lang: German
word: übertragen
lang: Irish
word: scaip
lang: Italian
word: diffondere
lang: Latin
word: dissēminō
lang: Latin
word: vulgō
lang: Māori
word: whakapāho
lang: Portuguese
word: transmitir
lang: Portuguese
word: difundir
lang: Russian
word: распространя́ть
roman: rasprostranjátʹ
lang: Turkish
word: yayınlamak