different between wide vs wid

English

Etymology

From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English w?d (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *w?daz, from Proto-Indo-European *w?- (“apart, asunder, in two”), from Proto-Indo-European *weye- (“to drive, separate”).

Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin d?vid? (“separate, sunder”), Latin v?t? (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /wa?d/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /w?ed/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Adjective

wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)

1. Having a large physical extent from side to side.

2. Large in scope.

3. (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.

4. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

   • Surely he shoots wide on the Bow-Hand.

   • 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law

     I was but two bows wide.

5. (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
6. (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.

7. (obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far. [15th–19th c.]
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 81:

     Mr Hunt's house, you know, lies wide from Harlowe-place.

   • 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals...

     the contrary [being] so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God

8. (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
   • April 12 1549, Hugh Latimer, sixth sermon preached before King Edward VI

     It is far wide that the people have such judgments.

   • How wide is all this long pretence!

9. (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.

   a wide character; a wide stream

Antonyms

• narrow (regarding empty area)
• thin (regarding occupied area)
• skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• width

Translations

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Adverb

wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)

1. extensively

2. completely

3. away from or to one side of a given goal
4. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

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Derived terms

• wide-ranging

Translations

Noun

wide (plural wides)

1. (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score

Old English

Etymology

w?d +? -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wi?.de/

Adverb

w?de

1. widely, afar, far and wide

English

Etymology

Variant of with.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?d, IPA^(key): /w?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Preposition

wid

1. (regional) Pronunciation spelling of with.
   • 1893, Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets [1]

     “An’ wid all d’ bringin’ up she had, how could she?” moaningly she asked of her son. “Wid all d’ talkin’ wid her I did an’ d’ t’ings I tol’ her to remember. When a girl is bringed up d’ way I bringed up Maggie, how kin she go teh d’ devil?”

   • 1922, Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape, [2]

     Oh, there was fine beautiful ships them days—clippers wid tall masts touching the sky—fine strong men in them—men that was sons of the sea as if ’twas the mother that bore them.

   • 1940, Shirley Graham, “It’s Morning,” in Black Female Playwrights, Kathy A Perkins ed. [3]

     Cissie. But, when da saints ob God go marchin’ home

     Mah gal will sing! Wid all da pure, bright stars,

     Tuhgedder wid da mawnin’ stars—She’ll sing!

Related terms

• See with

Anagrams

• D.W.I., DWI, IWD, WDI, dwi-

Belizean Creole

Alternative forms

• wit

Preposition

wid

1. with

References

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 372.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *w?daz. Cognate with Old Frisian w?d, Old Saxon w?do and Old Dutch w?do, Old High German w?t, Old Norse víðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?d/

Adjective

w?d

1. wide, far

Declension

Derived terms

• w?ds?þ

Descendants

• Middle English: wid, wyd
  • English: wide
  • Scots: wid, wyd