wide
part of speech
adjective (wide, wider, widest); adverb (wide)
meaning for a pupil
1) Wide means far from one side to the other. tree →
2) Wide tells how far across something is, as in «3 feet wide». tree →
3) Wide means covering many things, as in «a wide choice». tree →
4) Wide (adverb) means fully or far, as in «wide open», «wide awake». tree →
sense in the lessons
a length across, used for rectangles: so many feet wide and so many long; in everyday life, wide roads, rivers and doors; phrases «wide open», «wide awake», «far and wide», «worldwide», «width»
examples
- All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. (Writings LAM.3.46, JPS 1917) tree →
- Against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? (Prophets ISA.57.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- I opened wide my mouth, and panted; for I longed for Thy commandments. (Writings PSA.119.131, JPS 1917) tree →
- The garden is 10 feet wide and 20 feet long. tree →
- How wide is the room? tree →
- The road is 30 feet wide. tree →
- Find the area of a field 8 yards wide and 12 long. tree →
- The river is too wide to swim across. tree →
- She opened her eyes wide. tree →
- The baby was wide awake at midnight. tree →
- The shop has a wide choice of books. tree →
- The door was wide open. tree →
- People came from far and wide to see the show. tree →
- They stopped in a wide courtyard. tree →
note
A measure of length across. Wide × long gives area; 2 × (wide + long) gives the distance around. Trap: read whether the question asks for area or perimeter. The noun is «width». The opposite is «narrow».
In the corpora
- Against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue?
- They open wide their mouth against me, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
- Yea, they open their mouth wide against me; they say: 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.'
- Yonder sea, great and wide, therein are creeping things innumerable, living creatures, both small and great.
- He will judge among the nations; He filleth it with dead bodies, He crusheth the head over a wide land.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wide» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.