WIDE

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wide I. adjectiv

1. larg; întins; extins; lat;

3 meters wide lat de 3 metri.

2. (fig.) larg, mare, cuprinzător, extensiv;

he has a wide culture are o cultură vastă.

3. mare, considerabil, sensibil;

a wide difference o deosebire considerabilă.

4. mare, larg deschis;

with wide eyes cu ochii mari / larg deschişi.

5. (sl.) treaz, deştept; sculat.

6. (ec., despre preţuri) nestabil, care fluctuează.

7. wide of departe / depărtat de;

her answer was quite wide of the mark răspunsul ei nu a avut nici o legătură cu subiectul.

8. (sport) departe de ţintă.

wide II. adverb

1. Iarg;

to open one's mouth wide a-şi deschide gura larg.

2. foarte, extrem de;

wide apart foarte departe unul de altul, la mare depărtare.

3. wide of (foarte) departe de;

the ball fell wide of the target mingea căzu (foarte) departe de ţintă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Until the Czarina Catherine comes into port there will be no interest for me in anything in the wide world.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

He noted her pale face, her eyes wide and tense, and her clenched hands, with secret satisfaction.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

His eyes were wide and staring.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The results showed that four coastal species were able to absorb the impacts of storms across a wide range of severity.

(Coastal birds can weather the storm, but not the sea, National Science Foundation)

These discoveries promise to enhance our understanding of a wide range of diseases and aid development of new drugs.

(Scientists create ‘genetic atlas’ of proteins in human blood, University of Cambridge)

When he reached the gate of the castle, he found it closed, but he gave it a blow with his stick, and it flew wide open at once and he passed through.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

The body produces B cells with a wide range of antigen specificities in their immunoglobulin B cell receptor, but each cell only has a single specificity.

(Antigen Dependent B Cell Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Let me pass to some subject of wider interest.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These were few enough, to be sure; but as we always fell back upon Blood, she had as wide a field for abstract speculation as her nephew himself.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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