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broad⋅cast

  [brawd-kast, -kahst] verb, -cast or -cast⋅ed, -cast⋅ing, noun, adjective, adverb
Use broadcast in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
2. to speak, perform, sponsor, or present on a radio or television program: The President will broadcast his message on all stations tonight.
3. to cast or scatter abroad over an area, as seed in sowing.
4. to spread widely; disseminate: She broadcast the good news all over town.
5. 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)
6. to transmit programs or signals from a radio or television station.
7. to make something known widely; disseminate something.
8. 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.
–noun
9. 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.
18. so as to be cast abroad over an area: seed sown broadcast.
Origin:
1760–70; orig., broad (adv.) + cast, ptp. of cast1
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broad·cast   (brôd'kāst')   
v.   broad·cast or broad·cast·ed, broad·cast·ing, broad·casts

v.   tr.

  1. To transmit (a radio or television program) for public or general use.

  2. To send out or communicate, especially by radio or television: The agency broadcast an urgent appeal for medical supplies.

  3. To make known over a wide area: broadcast rumors. See Synonyms at announce.

  4. To sow (seed) over a wide area, especially by hand.

v.   intr.

    1. To transmit a radio or television program for public or general use.

    2. To be on the air: The station begins broadcasting at 6 A.M.

  2. To participate in a radio or television program.

  3. To send a transmission or signal; transmit.

n.  

  1. Transmission of a radio or television program or signal for public use.

    1. A radio or television program: watched the morning news broadcast.

    2. The duration of such a program.

  3. The act of scattering seed.

adj.  

    1. Communicated by means of television or radio.

    2. Of or relating to television or radio communications: broadcast journalism; the print and broadcast media.

  2. Widely known.

  3. Scattered over a wide area.

adv.  In a scattered manner.
broad'cast'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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broadcast
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.

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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