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Adjective
  • Having a large physical extent from side to side.
  • Large in scope.
  • Operating at the side of the playing area. sports
  • On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
  • Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth. phonetics, dated
  • Vast, great in extent, extensive. Scotland, Northern England, now rare
  • Remote; distant; far.
  • Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc. obsolete
  • Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation. computing
Adverb
  • extensively
  • completely
  • away from a given goal
  • So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
Noun
  • A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score cricket