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
- 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
- The Mona Lisa is about 77 centimetres tall and 53 centimetres wide; Guernica is almost 8 metres wide.
- A loose wide tail wag usually means a happy dog, but a stiff high wag can mean the dog is tense.
- A squid or cuttlefish has eight arms plus two longer tentacles with suckers only on their wide tips, ten limbs in all.
- Mandrills have very long canine teeth, and a wide yawn shows them off as a warning to rivals.
- Anglerfish and gulper eels can swallow prey as big as themselves or bigger, because their mouths open very wide and their stomachs stretch.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wide» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.