broadcast

Speech parts

1. broadcast - Noun

2. broadcast - Adjective

3. broadcast - Verb

4. broadcast - Adverb

Meaning

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.

Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.

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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Examples

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. Carl Sagan

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold. Theodore Parker

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind. Carl Hiaasen

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day. Lewis Mumford

The folly of a man is not broadcast like that of a woman. Cameroon Proverb

Confide in a woman and a magpie if you want something to be broadcast. Spanish Proverb

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