broadcast

adjective more broadcast · most broadcast

1. Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad. The seed was broadcast, not drilled.
2. Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic means. 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 s
3. attributive 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.

Similar: widespread

adverb more broadcast · most broadcast

1. Widely in all directions; abroad. [O]n reporting to Captain Thrasher he informed me that his orders were to take a detachment of forty men across the French Broad River and turn them loose to wander broadcast over the country as a protection to foraging parties of quartermasters and commissaries, […]
2. archaic 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.

noun broadcasts

1. A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver. No one knows how long it will be until a broadcast from a studio in New York will be viewed in India as well as in Indiana, will be seen in the Congo as it is seen in Chicago. But as surely as we are meeting here today, that day will come; and once again our world will shrink.
2. A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted. The DJ was feeling nervous before his first national broadcast.

   Opposite: narrowcast

3. archaic 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.

verb broadcasts · broadcasting · broadcast · broadcasted

1. transitive 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.

   Similar: air, transmit, send · Opposite: narrowcast

2. transitive To transmit a message over a wide area. The break with imperialism and the liberation of Russia from the predatory war, the publication of the secret treaties and the solemn abrogation of the policy of seizing foreign soil, the proclamation of national freedom and the recognition of the independence of Finland, the declaration of Russia a
3. specifically, transitive To send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people. Urban legend has it that someone is monitoring all those e-mails broadcast from your work address. Hard to imagine a more boring job but the truth is, and I shouldn't have to tell people this, the record of those e-mails is in a server somewhere and it can be monitored.
4. intransitive 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.
5. archaic, transitive To sow seeds over a wide area. I ſhall content myſelf, […] to ſay that the ſeed ſhoud be ſown in the garden, or very good ground, in rows, or broadcaſt, and as ſoon as the plants are of the ſize of a gooſe-quill, to be tranſplanted in rows of eighteen inches diſtance, and eighteen inches apart, one plant from the other: […]