broadcast

CEFRB1

/ˈbɹɔːd(ˌ)kɑːst/

noun · adjective · adverb

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01
noun
To send a program or message by radio, television, or internet.
02
noun
Extra detail
Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic means.

Examples

The radio broadcast the news in detail.
The radio station will broadcast the live concert tonight.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 3
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 4

Also pronounced

/ˈbɹoːd(ˌ)kɑːst/
/ˈbɹɔːd(ˌ)kast/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

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

adjective

Extra meaning

Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.

adverb

Extra meaning

Widely in all directions; abroad.

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In context

We broadcast news on the hour.
The DJ was feeling nervous before his first national broadcast.
The seed was broadcast, not drilled.

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They alleged that, as soon as the Opium Commission was appointed, the various anti-opium organisations began to be extremely active and a determined campaign was carried on against the use of the drug by the circulation of a mass of anti-opium literature and the broadcast distribution of handbills and pamphlets.
1923, Song Ong Siang, “The Tenth Decade (1909–19): First Part”, in One Hundred Years’ History of the Chinese in Singapore: […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 444
There must be action on and participation in broadcast methods of public education, face to face, in groups, or by use of the mails. This, however, is of secondary importance to the man-to-man job of education in care with fire in the woods.
1931 June, M. A. Mattoon, “Application of Methods to Minimize Human Risks and Physical Dangers”, in Fire Handbook: Region Seven: United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 8
For radio-transmission it has been found that certain passages of a rhythmical nature come out more clearly if wooden-headed sticks are used. The Timpani sometimes tend to sound blurred and even to have a blurring effect on the rest of the orchestral ensemble in broadcast music, when ordinary soft sticks are used in a strongly marked rhythm.
1946, Ch[arles]-M[arie] Widor, “Percussion Instruments”, in Edward Suddard, transl., The Technique of the Modern Orchestra: A Manual of Practical Instrumentation, rev. and new edition, London: Joseph Wiliams Limited, 29, Enford Street, Marylebone, W.1, →OCLC; reprinted Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2005, →ISBN, page 208
[O]n reporting to Captain Thrasher he informed me that his orders were to take a detachment of forty men across the French Broad River and turn them loose to wander broadcast over the country as a protection to foraging parties of quartermasters and commissaries, […]
1864 January 15, J[oseph] B[enjamin] Polley, “Some ‘Escape’ Stories”, in A Soldier’s Letters to Charming Nellie, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, published 1908, →OCLC, page 195
The commercial traveller, a personage unknown to antiquity, is one of the striking figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. […] Our century will bind the realm of isolated power, abounding as it does in creative genius, to the realm of universal but levelling might; equalizing all products, spreading them broadcast among the masses, and being itself controlled by the principle of unity,—the final expression of all societies.
1885, Honoré de Balzac; [Katherine Prescott Wormeley, transl.], “The Illustrious Gaudissart [Scenes from Provincial Life.]”, in The Duchesse de Langeais: With An Episode under the Terror, The Illustrious Gaudissart, A Passion in the Desert, and The Hidden Masterpiece (The Comedy of Human Life), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, 3 Somerset Street, →OCLC, chapter I, page 217

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Origin

noun

From broad + cast. First attested in the mid 18th century, in the agricultural use of spreading seeds.

Deep Dive

noun

adjective

adverb

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The radio station will blank— the evening news at six o'clock.

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noun

The radio station will blank the evening news at six o'clock.