'Broadcast' definitions:
Definition of 'broadcast'
From: WordNet
noun
Message that is transmitted by radio or television
noun
A radio or television show; "did you see his program last night?" [syn: broadcast, program, programme]
verb
Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: air, send, broadcast, beam, transmit]
verb
Sow over a wide area, especially by hand; "broadcast seeds"
verb
Cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around]
Definition of 'Broadcast'
From: GCIDE
- Broadcast \Broad"cast`\, adv. 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Broadcast'
From: GCIDE
- Broadcast \Broad"cast`\, n.
- 1. (Agric.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [PJC]
Definition of 'Broadcast'
From: GCIDE
- Broadcast \Broad"cast`\, a.
- 1. Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Broadcast'
From: GCIDE
- Broadcast \Broad"cast`\, v.
- 1. to cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely. [1913 Webster]
- 2. to transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station. [PJC]
- 3. to disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station. [PJC]
- 4. to spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'broadcast'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accessible,
- advertise,
- advertisement,
- affirmed,
- air,
- airing,
- announce,
- announced,
- announcement,
- annunciate,
- attenuation,
- bandying,
- beam,
- bed,
- bestrew,
- blazon,
- book,
- broadcasting,
- brought to notice,
- bruit about,
- bruiting,
- bruiting about,
- canned show,
- circulated,
- circulation,
- circumfuse,
- circumfusion,
- commercial,
- commercial program,
- common knowledge,
- common property,
- communicate,
- convey,
- current,
- deal out,
- declared,
- dibble,
- diffract,
- diffraction,
- diffuse,
- diffused,
- diffusion,
- dilution,
- discrete,
- dispensation,
- dispense,
- dispersal,
- disperse,
- dispersed,
- dispersion,
- display,
- dispread,
- disseminate,
- disseminated,
- dissemination,
- dissipated,
- dissipation,
- distribute,
- distributed,
- distribution,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- drill,
- electrical transcription,
- evaporation,
- evulgation,
- expansion,
- fan out,
- forest,
- fragmentation,
- get across,
- get over,
- give,
- give word,
- hand on,
- impart,
- implant,
- in circulation,
- in print,
- inseminate,
- insemination,
- issuance,
- issue,
- leave word,
- made public,
- make known,
- network show,
- newscast,
- open,
- overscatter,
- oversow,
- overspread,
- pass,
- pass along,
- pass on,
- peppering,
- periodical,
- plant,
- planting,
- pot,
- printing,
- proclaim,
- proclaimed,
- proclamation,
- promulgate,
- promulgation,
- pronouncement,
- pronunciamento,
- propagate,
- propagated,
- propagation,
- public,
- publication,
- publish,
- published,
- publishing,
- put in,
- radiate,
- radiation,
- radio,
- radio fare,
- radiobroadcast,
- rebroadcast,
- reforest,
- reforestation,
- relay,
- render,
- report,
- reported,
- rerun,
- reset,
- resetting,
- retail,
- retimber,
- retimbering,
- scatter,
- scatter seed,
- scattered,
- scattering,
- scatterment,
- seed,
- seed down,
- seeding,
- seminate,
- semination,
- send,
- send word,
- serial,
- set,
- setting,
- share,
- share with,
- shortwave,
- shotgun pattern,
- show,
- sign off,
- sign on,
- signal,
- soap opera,
- sound effects,
- sow,
- sow broadcast,
- sowing,
- sparse,
- spattering,
- splay,
- sporadic,
- sportscast,
- spread,
- spread out,
- spreading,
- spreading abroad,
- sprinkling,
- stated,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- straw,
- strew,
- strewing,
- strewn,
- strown,
- sustainer,
- taped program,
- telecast,
- telecasting,
- televise,
- televised,
- tell,
- transfer,
- transmission,
- transmit,
- transplant,
- transplantation,
- utter,
- ventilation,
- volatilization,
- widespread,
- wireless