broadcast
/ˈbɹɔːd(ˌ)kɑːst/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.39 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic means.
adj
Relating to transmissions of messages or signals to many people through radio waves or electronic means.
adv
Widely in all directions; abroad.
noun
A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
noun
A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.
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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.? Proto-Germanic *braidaz Proto-West Germanic *braid Old English brād Middle English brod English broad Proto-Germanic *kas- Proto-Germanic *kastōną Old Norse kastabor. Middle English casten English cast English broadcast From broad + cast. First attested in the mid 18th century, in the agricultural use of spreading seeds.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈbɹɔːd(ˌ)kɑːst/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more broadcast (comparative)
most broadcast (superlative)
broadcasts (plural)
broadcasts (present, singular)
broadcasting (participle, present)
broadcasted (common, error unknown tag)