Broadcast

/ˈbɹɔːdkɑːst/ · adjective

Meaning

Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad..

Definitions by Sense

1. Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.
2. Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic means.
3. (attributive) Relating to transmissions of messages or signals to many people through radio waves or electronic means.
4. Widely in all directions; abroad.
5. (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) By having its seeds sown over a wide area.
6. A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
7. A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.
8. (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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• more broadcast
• most broadcast
• broadcasts
• broadcasting
• broadcast
• broadcasted

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