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▸ adjective: Large in scope.
▸ adjective: (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
▸ adjective: On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
▸ adjective: (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
▸ adjective: (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
▸ adjective: (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
▸ adjective: (British, slang) Antagonistic, shrewd, unscrupulous, provocative.
▸ adverb: extensively
▸ adverb: completely
▸ adverb: away from or to one side of a given goal
▸ adverb: So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
▸ noun: (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
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