broadcast

«broadcast» in Mova's school dictionary: to send out a programme on television, radio or the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (broadcast, broadcasts, broadcast or broadcasted, broadcasting); noun (a broadcast, broadcasts)

meaning for a pupil

1) To broadcast means to send out a programme on television, radio or the internet: "the match will be broadcast live". tree →

2) (noun) A broadcast is a programme sent out on TV, radio or online: "a news broadcast". tree →

3) To broadcast news or a secret means to tell lots of people: "don't broadcast it". tree →

4) (farming, old) To broadcast seeds means to scatter them widely by hand. tree →

sense in the lessons

In media lessons, broadcasters, live broadcasts and news broadcasts are studied. In maths, broadcast times are worked out: "a 90-minute broadcast starting at 7:15 ends at 8:45". In everyday life, "don't broadcast it" means keep it quiet. Phrases: live broadcast, news broadcast, broadcast live, broadcaster.

examples

• The football final is broadcast live on TV. tree →
• We listened to the news broadcast on the radio. tree →
• The school play was broadcast online for grandparents. tree →
• The broadcast starts at 6:30 and lasts 30 minutes. tree →
• Don't broadcast my secret to the whole class! tree →
• The farmer broadcast the seeds across the field. tree →
• The radio station broadcasts music all night. tree →

note

Past form: usually broadcast (the same), sometimes broadcasted. A broadcaster is a person or company that broadcasts. Formed from broad (wide) + cast (throw).

In the corpora

• A broadcast, such as radio or television, sends the same message from one sender to many people at once.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «broadcast» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.