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broadcast

[brawd-kast, -kahst]

verb (used with object)

to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.

to speak, perform, sponsor, or present on a radio or television program: The President will broadcast his message on all stations tonight.

to cast or scatter abroad over an area, as seed in sowing.

to spread widely; disseminate: She broadcast the good news all over town.

to indicate unwittingly to another (one's next action); telegraph: He broadcast his punch and the other man was able to parry it.

verb (used without object)

to transmit programs or signals from a radio or television station.

to make something known widely; disseminate something.

to speak, perform, sponsor, or present all or part of a radio or television program: The Boston Symphony Orchestra broadcasts every Saturday on our local station.

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noun

something that is broadcast.

10.

a single radio or television program.

11.

the broadcasting of radio or television messages, speeches, etc.

12.

a single period of broadcasting.

13.

a method of sowing by scattering seed.

adjective

14.

(of programs) transmitted from a radio or television station.

15.

of or pertaining to broadcasting.

16.

cast abroad or all over an area, as seed scattered widely.

adverb

17.

so as to reach the greatest number of people by radio or television: The vital news was sent broadcast to inform the entire nation.

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so as to be cast abroad over an area: seed sown broadcast.

Origin:
1760–70; orig., broad (adv.) + cast, past participle of cast¹

Related forms

un·broad·cast·ed, adjective

Can be confused: broadcast, narrowcast, simulcast.

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In late-night television, young men are slowly turning the channel from the broadcast networks to cable.

Its amazing how much misinformation is being broadcast on this thread.

Gone are broadcast radio's difficulties with waveband congestion.

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In late-night television, young men are slowly turning the channel from the broadcast networks to cable.

Its amazing how much misinformation is being broadcast on this thread.

Gone are broadcast radio's difficulties with waveband congestion.

All copies of off-air recordings must include the copyright notice on the broadcast program as recorded.

The set was powered by energy extracted by the window screen from radio waves broadcast through the airno batteries were needed.

Broadcast them over a prepared bed or plant them in traditional rows more.

Having a general concept for the content you're going to broadcast is not only important for sanity's sake.

More than ever, cable channels have joined major broadcast networks in previewing their fall lineups to advertisers.

Many admissions offices now use new technologies to broadcast their carefully choreographed messages.

It was the last rebel message, probably conveyed by satellite phone, known to have been broadcast from the battlefield.

Provides radio broadcast of the songs of humpback whales.

The invisible electromagnetic energy comes from many sources: broadcast towers, cellular-phone networks and.

Die-hard college sports fans who live outside their team's broadcast area can now get live games on their cell phones.

The ticket is more expensive now but otherwise this could be have been broadcast yesterday.

Viewers and creative verve are drifting steadily from broadcast to cable networks.

The news broadcast includes a warning that a severe storm is approaching his village.

Second, every broadcast medium is moving to a digital format, and digital means data compression.

It's distributing tiny radio-transmitter kits so people can broadcast from.

The point is that the new media allows individuals to broadcast slanderous speech to a wide audience.

As usual, managers and workers learned of their fate during a live television broadcast by the president.

View through a portion of the broadcast antenna that fell from the top of the north tower.

In those situations, large ant groups often broadcast such information through pheromone trails or other means.

On broadcast radio, you tune in to a country station on the radio dial for country tunes, and that's pretty much all you'll get.

Ultimately, the committee decided not to impose the broadcast ban.

Your correspondent installed a broadcast antenna to receive high.

The birds often crash into brilliantly-lit broadcast towers or buildings, or circle them until they drop from exhaustion.

As a kid, he'd been an amateur radio operator, eventually earning his broadcast engineering license.

The animated extraterrestrials will appear in the broadcast.

The message has to be broadcast over and over, by many sincere people who have given it much thought.

Like broadcast television, recorded music is a troubled business.

His pictures and video of the penguin were broadcast around the world.

Then he aimed a speaker at a group of moths and broadcast sounds in a wide range of frequencies.

Many of the formats currently broadcast on digital subchannels would probably never survive on a profit-hungry radio station.

Remember, interviews are not broadcast communication where one size fits all.

Owners in the larger cities have huge broadcast and cable deals and have funnelled the revenues into the team's payroll.

Much of networks' inefficiencies today come from wireless, because its signals are not broadcast toward anyone in particular.

Broadcast television has already lost some ground to streaming and downloadable media.

Even a lot of non-science majors will engage the material too if you broadcast your enthusiasm for the subject.

For the message needs to be broadcast that alternative medicine is a colossal waste of money.

To polish our self-image and broadcast that polished version of our personality to the world-at a fraction of the price.

So a couple cell phone companies are signing on to an old-fashioned notion: broadcast.

Each group decorated a poster board to serve as the backdrop for its broadcast.

The agency regulates the country's telephone, cable and broadcast operations.

Hulu's executives have already stated that they wanted to scale back advertising compared to broadcast content.

Today's hidden-microphone cameras are wireless, so this machine scans the broadcast spectrum to see whether any are transmitting.

When an alert is issued, beachside sirens go off and urgent messages are flashed on television and broadcast on radio.

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World English Dictionary

broadcast (ˈbrɔːdˌkɑːst)

—vb , -casts, -casting, -cast, -casted
1.	to transmit (announcements or programmes) on radio or television
2.	(intr) to take part in a radio or television programme
3.	(tr) to make widely known throughout an area: to broadcast news
4.	(tr) to scatter (seed, etc) over an area, esp by hand

—n
5.	a. a transmission or programme on radio or television
	b. (as modifier): a broadcast signal
6.	a. the act of scattering seeds
	b. (as modifier): the broadcast method of sowing

—*adj*
7.	dispersed over a wide area: broadcast seeds

—*adv*
8.	far and wide: seeds to be sown broadcast

'broadcaster

—n

'broadcasting

—n

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Word Origin & History

broadcast

1767, adj., in reference to the spreading of seed, from broad + cast (v.). Figurative use is recorded from 1785. Modern media use began with radio (1922, adj. and noun). As a verb, recorded from 1813 in an agricultural sense, 1829 in a figurative

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sense, 1921 in reference to radio. Broadcasting is recorded from 1922.

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Computing Dictionary

broadcast definition

A transmission to multiple, unspecified recipients. On Ethernet, a broadcast packet is a special type of multicast packet which all nodes on the network are always willing to receive.

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