broadcast

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to cause to become widely known

   Knowledge of what you have done has already been broadcast to the group.

2. 2
   verb

   to broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television

   I broadcasted my show over the internet.

3. 3
   verb

   to sow over a wide area, especially by hand

   I broadcast seeds.

4. 4
   adj

   Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.

   The seed was broadcast, not drilled.

5. 5
   adj

   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 sticks are used in a strongly marked rhythm.

6. 6
   adj

   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.

7. 7
   adv

   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, […]

8. 8
   adv

   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.

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.