Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry.
Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference.
Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding.
Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like.
On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide.
So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose; aside; astray.
That which is wide; wide space; width; extent.
That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark.
A trajectory that goes to the right of the intended target at its furthest point.
having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"
broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"
very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies"
great in degree; "won by a wide margin"
great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection"
not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"
with or by a broad space; "stand with legs wide apart"; "ran wide around left end"
to the fullest extent possible; "open your eyes wide"; "with the throttle wide open"
far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander"
to or over a great extent or range; far; "wandered wide through many lands"; "he traveled widely"
A bowling delivery that goes too wide of the stumps so that it is not playable by the batsman. One run is given to the batting team for each wide, and athler bowl has to be bowled.
A delivery that pitches too far away from the batsman and so proves impossible to score off. The umpire will single this by stretching his arms out horizontally, an extra will be added to the total and the ball will be bowled again
a ball delivered by the bowler that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems the batsman was prevented from hitting it. an extra run credited to the batting side when a bowler bowls a wide(1). the arm signal of an umpire used to signal a wide(1), with both arms outstretched horizontally. adj. describing a ball that passes the batsmen a long way to either side, not necessarily called a wide(1) by the umpire. adj. describing a location on the field away from the line running through the length of the pitch through both wickets, or farther from this line than another location being compared to.
The bowl is started too far out of the centerline to the Jack (also called taking too much "Grass").