Report vs. Broadcast — What's the Difference?

A report is a document that presents information in an organized format for a specific audience and purpose. Although summaries of reports may be delivered orally, complete reports are almost always in the form of written documents.

To communicate or transmit (a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming) to numerous recipients simultaneously over a communication network

A formal account of the proceedings or transactions of a group

To make known over a wide area

A spoken or written account of an event, usually presented in detail

To sow (seed) over a wide area, especially by hand.

A person who is accountable or subordinate to another person within a company or organization

To communicate or transmit a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming, to numerous recipients simultaneously over a communication network.

Reports(Law) Bound volumes containing the published court opinions in legal cases, intended to provide a reference for precedents in subsequent cases.

The act or process of broadcasting a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming.

Reputation; repute

A signal, message, or audio or video program that is broadcast over a communication network

(Archaic) Common talk; rumor or gossip.

The act of scattering seed.

An explosive noise

Communicated or transmitted by means of broadcasting, as over a communications network

To make or present an official or formal account of

Of or relating to the broadcasting of audio or video content over communication networks, as in television or radio.

To write or provide an account or summation of for publication or broadcast

Widely known.

To tell about the presence or occurrence of

Scattered over a wide area.

To relate or tell, especially from personal experience

In a scattered manner.

To submit or relate the results of considerations concerning

Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.

To carry back and repeat to another

Communicated, signalled, or transmitted through radio waves or electronic means.

To complain about or denounce

Relating to transmissions of messages or signals through radio waves or electronic means.

To make a report

Widely in all directions; abroad.

To serve as a reporter for a publication, broadcasting company, or other news media.

By having its seeds sown over a wide area.

To present oneself

A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.

To be accountable or subordinate to someone

A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.

(transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).

The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.

To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal.

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

To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.

(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.

(transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).

(intransitive) To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.

(intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.

To sow seeds over a wide area.

(ambitransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.

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

(intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).

An act of broadcasting; specifically, a program in which sounds or images are transmitted in all directions from a radio or television station; - usually referring to a scheduled program on a commercial or public service radio or television station, using the normal radio frequencies for those media, in contrast to a radiotelephone conversation, which may also be transmitted in all directions, but is intended for receipt by a base station in the telephone network.

To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.

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

To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.

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

(obsolete) To refer.

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.

To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

To cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely.

A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).

To transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station.

Reputation.

To disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station.

(firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.

To spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means.

An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.

Message that is transmitted by radio or television

To refer.

A radio or television show;

To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress.

Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television;

To give an account of; to relate; to tell; to circulate publicly, as a story; as, in the common phrase, it is reported.

Sow over a wide area, especially by hand;

To give an official account or statement of; as, a treasurer reports the receipts and expenditures.

Cause to become widely known;

To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry.

To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker.

To write an account of for publication, as in a newspaper; as, to report a public celebration or a horse race.

To make a statement of the conduct of, especially in an unfavorable sense; as, to report a servant to his employer.

To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock.

To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication.

To present one's self, as to a superior officer, or to one to whom service is due, and to be in readiness for orders or to do service; also, to give information, as of one's address, condition, etc.; as, the officer reported to the general for duty; to report weekly by letter.

That which is reported.

Sound; noise; as, the report of a pistol or cannon.

Rapport; relation; connection; reference.

A written document describing the findings of some individual or group;

A short account of the news;

The act of informing by verbal report;

A sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing);

A written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment;

An essay (especially one written as an assignment);

The general estimation that the public has for a person;

To give an account or representation of in words;

Announce as the result of an investigation, or announce something to the proper authorities;

Announce one's presence;

Make known to the authorities;

Be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism;

Complain about; make a charge against;