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Broadcast   /brˈɔdkˌæst/   Listen
verb
Broadcast  v.  (past & past part. broadcast; pres. part. broadcasting)  
1.
To cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely.
2.
To transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station.
3.
To disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station.
4.
To spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means.


noun
Broadcast  n.  
1.
(Agric.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
2.
An act of broadcasting; specifically, a program in which sounds or images are transmitted in all directions from a radio or television station; usually referring to a scheduled program on a commercial or public service radio or television station, using the normal radio frequencies for those media, in contrast to a radiotelephone conversation, which may also be transmitted in all directions, but is intended for receipt by a base station in the telephone network.


adjective
Broadcast  adj.  
1.
Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
2.
Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); opposed to planting in hills, or rows.


adverb
Broadcast  adv.  So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.





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"Broadcast" Quotes from Famous Books



... so. If that document were placed before the leaders, the result would be immediate. They would publish it broadcast throughout England, and declare for the revolution without a moment's hesitation. The Government would be broken ...
— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie
... through the middle, of the cornfield. It is of exactly the same soil as the rest, but many passengers have trodden it hard, and the very foot of the sower, as he comes and goes in his work, has helped. Some of the seed, sown broadcast, of course falls there, and lies where it falls, having no power to penetrate the hard surface. As in our own English cornfields, a flock of bold, hungry birds watch the sower; and, as soon as his back is turned, they are ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII • Alexander Maclaren
... persecutor acted as the scattering hand of the sower. It flung the seeds broadcast, and wherever they fell they sprouted. These fugitives were not officials, nor were they commissioned by the Apostles to preach. Without any special command or position, they followed the instincts of believing hearts, and, as they carried their faith ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren
... around again I tried in vain to spread the tale broadcast. I had some notion that ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin
... without allowing them any representation in these halls, you are violating one of the cardinal principles of republican government; you are tearing down the main pillar upon which our whole fabric of Government rests; you are sowing broadcast the seeds of revolution and ruin. Mr. Speaker, if the object of gentlemen here is to restore harmony and peace and prosperity throughout the Union, why do they adopt measures thus insulting, tyrannical, and oppressive in their character? Is this the way to restore ...
— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes


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