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overall
English
Etymology
From Middle English overall, overal, from Old English ofer eall, ofer ealle (“over all”), equivalent to over +? all. Compare Saterland Frisian oural, uural (“everywhere”), West Frisian oeral (“everywhere”), Dutch overal (“everywhere”), German Low German overall, överall (“everywhere; all over”), German überall (“all over; everywhere”), Danish overalt (“everywhere”), Swedish överallt (“everywhere; overall”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) (adjective, adverb) IPA(key): /???v?????l/
- (UK) (noun) IPA(key): /???v????l/
- (US) (adjective, adverb) IPA(key): /?o?v???l/
- (US) (noun) IPA(key): /?o?v??l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Adjective
overall (comparative more overall, superlative most overall)
- All-encompassing, all around.
Synonyms
- big, entire, total, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
- exhaustive, thorough; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive
Translations
Adverb
overall (not comparable)
- Generally; with everything considered.
Synonyms
- all things considered; see also Thesaurus:mostly
Translations
Noun
overall (plural overalls)
- (Britain) A garment worn over other clothing to protect it; a coverall or boiler suit. A garment, for manual labor or for casual wear, often made of a single piece of fabric, with long legs and a bib upper, supported from the shoulders with straps, and having several large pockets and loops for carrying tools.
- (in the plural, US) A garment, worn for manual labor, with an integral covering extending to the chest, supported by straps.
Synonyms
- overslop
- slop
Translations
Further reading
- overall in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- overall in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- all over, all-over, allover, valerol
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English overall, from over + all.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v??ro?l/, /?v??ral/, /?v??ro?l/, /?v??ral/
Noun
overall c
- a coverall
Declension
References
- overall in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).
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broad
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English br?d (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots braid (“broad”), West Frisian breed (“broad”), Saterland Frisian breed (“broad”), Low German breed (“broad”), breet, Dutch breed (“broad”), German breit (“broad, wide”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål bred (“broad”), Norwegian brei (“broad”), Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b???d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /b??d/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /b??d/
- Rhymes: -??d
Adjective
broad (comparative broader, superlative broadest)
- Wide in extent or scope.
- Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- 1720, William Bartlet, a sermon
- broad and open day
- May 12, 1860, Eliza Watson, Witches and witchcraft (in Once A Week, No. 46.)
- crushing the minds of its victims in the broad and open day
- 1720, William Bartlet, a sermon
- Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
- a broad mixture of falsehood
- Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- 1819, D. Daggett, Sturges v. Crowninshield
- The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.
- 1859, Edward Everett, Daniel Webster: An Oration On the Occasion of the Dedication of the Statue of Mr. Webster,
- in a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way
- 1819, D. Daggett, Sturges v. Crowninshield
- Plain; evident.
- General rather than specific.
- to be in broad agreement
- (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
- Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
- (dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.
- (of an accent) Strongly regional.
- (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
Antonyms
- (wide—regarding occupied space, width of an object): thin, narrow
- (wide—regarding body width): skinny
- (comprehensive): all-encompassing; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive
- (not palatalized): slender
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
broad (plural broads)
- (Britain) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
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- (Britain, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight.
- 1974, The Video Handbook (page 71)
- […] fresnel spotlights, old-type broads, sky-pans, cone-lights, etc.
- 1976, Herbert Zettl, Television Production Handbook (volume 10, page 105)
- Some broads have barn doors (see page 115) to block gross light spill into other set areas; others have even an adjustable beam, […]
- 2015, Jim Owens, Television Production (page 194)
- Light bounced from large white surfaces (e.g., matte reflector boards, or a white ceiling). Floodlights include scoops, broads, floodlight, banks, internally reflected units, strip lights, and cyclorama lights.
- 1974, The Video Handbook (page 71)
Derived terms
- Broadland (sense 1)
- Oulton Broad (sense 1)
Etymology 2
Early 20th century. Said to be from abroadwife (“woman who lives or travels without her husband”), though it might be in part an alteration of bride, especially through influence of cognate German Braut, which is used in the same sense of “broad, young woman, hussy”. Compare already Middle High German br?t (“concubine”).
Noun
broad (plural broads)
- (dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
- (US, colloquial, slang, sometimes dated, derogatory) A woman or girl.
- Who was that broad I saw you with?
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:prostitute
- See also Thesaurus:woman
- See also Thesaurus:girl
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Word formation verb -en noun -ness
Anagrams
- Bardo, Board, Borda, Broda, Dobra, abord, adorb, bardo, board, dobra
Breton
Etymology
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Noun
broad m (plural broiz)
- person from a country
Inflection
Noun
broad f (plural broadoù)
- nation
Inflection
Derived terms
- broadel
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