broadcast

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Cast or scattered widely in all directions

   Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.

   • The seed was broadcast, not drilled.
2. 2

   Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic…

   Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic means.

3. 3

   Relating to transmissions of messages or signals to many people through radio waves or…

   Relating to transmissions of messages or signals to many people through radio waves or electronic means.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      Widely in all directions

      Widely in all directions; abroad.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      By having its seeds sown over a wide area.

      • 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.
   3. 6

      A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with…

      A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.

   4. 7

      A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.

      • The DJ was feeling nervous before his first national broadcast.
   5. 8

      The act of scattering seed

      The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.

      • 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; […]
   6. 9

      To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.

      • 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.
      • The TV is broadcasting a FUZZY PICTURE that shows the weatherman from WVII, the Bango ABC affiliate.
   7. 10

      To transmit a message over a wide area.

   8. 11

      To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.

      • 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.
   9. 12

      To sow seeds over a wide area.

      • 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.

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