different between broadcast vs glare

English

Etymology

broad +? cast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b???dk??st/, /-kæst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??dkæst/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?b??dkæst/
• (US)
• (California)
• Hyphenation: broad?cast

Adjective

broadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast)

2. Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.
3. Communicated, signalled, or transmitted through radio waves or electronic means.
4. Relating to transmissions of messages or signals through radio waves or electronic means.

Synonyms

• widespread

Translations

Adverb

broadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast)

1. Widely in all directions; abroad.
2. (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) By having its seeds sown over a wide area.

Noun

broadcast (plural broadcasts)

1. A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
   • 1961 May 9, Newton Minow, "Television and the Public Interest":

     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.

   Antonym: narrowcast
3. (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

broadcast (third-person singular simple present broadcasts, present participle broadcasting, simple past and past participle broadcast or broadcasted)

1. (transitive) To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.

   Synonyms: air, transmit

   Antonym: narrowcast
2. (transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area; specifically, to send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.
3. (intransitive) To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.
4. (transitive, agriculture, horticulture, archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.

Usage notes

The past of broadcast is either broadcast or broadcasted. Both are in use, but broadcast is much more common, especially in the simple past but also as past participle. As of 2019, Google Books search gives 326,000 results for "was broadcast", vs. 12,900 for "was broadcasted".

Derived terms

Translations

Hypernyms

• cast

References

• broadcast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• broadcast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• broadcast (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bad actors

English

Etymology

From Middle English glaren, from Old English glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *gl???n. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

glare (countable and uncountable, plural glares)

1. (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.

   • the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare

2. Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
3. An angry or fierce stare.
4. (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
5. (US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.

   a glare of ice

6. A viscous, transparent substance; glair.

Translations

Verb

glare (third-person singular simple present glares, present participle glaring, simple past and past participle glared)

1. (intransitive) To stare angrily.

   He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
2. (intransitive) To shine brightly.

   The sun glared down on the desert sand.

   • The cavern glares with new-admitted light.

3. (intransitive) To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
   • 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle V to Miss Blount

     She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.

4. (transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.

Coordinate terms

• scowl

Derived terms

• aglare
• glaringly
• glare filter

Translations

Adjective

glare (comparative more glare, superlative most glare)

1. (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary

   skating on glare ice

Anagrams

• Agler, Alger, Elgar, Large, Ragle, ergal, lager, large, regal

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish glór.

Noun

glare f (genitive singular glare, plural glaraghyn)

1. speech
2. language, parlance
3. utterance

Derived terms

• glare-vroghe
• glareydagh (“linguistic; linguist”)
• lioar-ghlare (“literary language”)
• neughlaragh (“voiceless”)

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