Wide vs. Breadth — What's the Difference?

Of great or more than average width

The measure or dimension from side to side; width.

Including a great variety of people or things

A piece usually produced in a standard width

At a considerable or specified distance from an intended point or target

Wide range or scope

To the full extent

Tolerance; broadmindedness

Far from a particular or intended point or target

An effect of unified, encompassing vision in an artistic composition.

A ball that is judged to be too wide of the stumps for the batsman to play, for which an extra is awarded to the batting side.

The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is.

Having a specified extent from side to side

A piece of fabric of standard width.

Extending over a great distance from side to side; broad

Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.

Having great extent or range; including much or many

(arts) A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.

Fully open or extended

(graph theory) The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.

To the side of or at a distance from a given boundary, limit, or goal

Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

(Baseball) Outside.

An ability to understand a broad range of topics;

(Sports) Being toward or near one of the side boundaries of a playing area, such as a sideline on a football field.

The extent of something from side to side

Deviating or straying from something expected or specified

(Linguistics) Lax.

Over a great distance; extensively

To the full extent; completely.

To the side of or at a distance from a given boundary, limit, or goal.

(Sports) Toward or near one of the sides of a playing area

A ball bowled outside of the batsman's reach, counting as a run for the batting team in cricket.

Having a large physical extent from side to side.

Large in scope.

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

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

Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.

Vast, great in extent, extensive.

(obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far.

(obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.

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

Antagonistic, provocative.

Extensively

Completely

Away from or to one side of a given goal

So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

(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

Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry.

Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference.

Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding.

Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide.

Remote; distant; far.

Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like.

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

Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; - opposed to primary as used by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr. Sweet. The effect, as explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the relaxation or tension of the pharynx; as explained by Mr. Sweet and others, it is due to the action of the tongue. The wide of ē (ēve) is ĭ (ĭll); of ā (āte) is ĕ (ĕnd), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, 13-15.

Having or showing a wide difference between the highest and lowest price, amount of supply, etc.; as, a wide opening; wide prices, where the prices bid and asked differ by several points.

To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide.

So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose; aside; astray.

That which is wide; wide space; width; extent.

That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark.

Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other;

Broad in scope or content;

(used of eyes) fully open or extended;

Very large in expanse or scope;

Great in degree;

Great in range or scope;

Having ample fabric;

Not on target;

With or by a broad space;

To the fullest extent possible;

Far from the intended target;

To or over a great extent or range; far;