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wider

a. 宽的,广阔的

This street is three times wider than that one.
这条街比那条街宽三倍。
`Open your mouth a little wider,' said the dentist.
｀把嘴张大点,＇牙科医生说.

Wide \Wide\ (w[imac]d), a. [Compar. {Wider} (-[~e]r); superl.
{Widest}.] [OE. wid, wyde, AS. w[=i]d; akin to OFries. & OS.
w[=i]d, D. wijd, G. weit, OHG. w[=i]t, Icel. v[=i][eth]r, Sw.
& Dan. vid; of uncertain origin.]
1. Having considerable distance or extent between the sides;
spacious across; much extended in a direction at right
angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide
cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide
hall or entry.

The chambers and the stables weren wyde. --Chaucer.

Wide is the gate . . . that leadeth to destruction.
--Matt. vii.
18.

2. Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious;
broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean;
a wide difference. ``This wyde world.'' --Chaucer.

For sceptered cynics earth were far too wide a den.
--Byron.

When the wide bloom, on earth that lies,
Seems of a brighter world than ours. --Bryant.

3. Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide
views; a wide understanding.

Men of strongest head and widest culture. --M.
Arnold.

4. Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a
direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table
three feet wide.

5. Remote; distant; far.

The contrary being so wide from the truth of
Scripture and the attributes of God. --Hammond.

6. Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the
like. ``Our wide expositors.'' --Milton.

It is far wide that the people have such judgments.
--Latimer.

How wide is all this long pretense ! --Herbert.

7. On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise
from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand. --Spenser.

I was but two bows wide. --Massinger.

8. (Phon.) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open
and relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; -- opposed to
primary as used by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr.
Sweet. The effect, as explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the
relaxation or tension of the pharynx; as explained by Mr.
Sweet and others, it is due to the action of the tongue.
The wide of [=e] ([=e]ve) is [i^] ([i^]ll); of [=a]
([=a]te) is [e^] ([e^]nd), etc. See Guide to
Pronunciation, [sect] 13-15.

9. (Stock Exchanges) Having or showing a wide difference
between the highest and lowest price, amount of supply,
etc.; as, a wide opening; wide prices, where the prices
bid and asked differ by several points.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Note: Wide is often prefixed to words, esp. to participles
and participial adjectives, to form self-explaining
compounds; as, wide-beaming, wide-branched,
wide-chopped, wide-echoing, wide-extended,
wide-mouthed, wide-spread, wide-spreading, and the
like.

{Far and wide}. See under {Far}.

{Wide gauge}. See the Note under {Cauge}, 6.

Earnings were helped by stronger fee income, wider interest spreads and lower bad debt provisions. Net income in the fourth quarter of 1992 was Dollars 104m (Dollars 1.14 per share), up from Dollars 66m, or 80 cents.
One of the advantages of the global equity market that has emerged since the liberalisation of exchange controls in the 1980s is that it enables countries to seek international solutions to a wider range of domestic economic problems.
He said investors were picking individual stocks based on specific incentives and the likelihood of a wider price increase over the short term.
Museums are "making sure exhibitions are understandable to and enjoyable by wider populations," Able said.
The yield spread was 0.01 percentage point wider than late Monday.
This should be a trial run for a wider amalgamation.
The source asserted that BankAmerica officials, including Chairman A.W. Clausen, believed they had obtained "at least a moral commitment" for more wider participation after having made several trips to Tokyo since June.
"Sentimentalism" is a frequent retort in what promises to be a deeper and wider debate, but "sentimentalism" is often a contemptuous term for concern.
A wider look at the issue is needed, and a useful starting point might be consideration of what investors want an index to tell them.
But as the fashion for emerging country shares spreads ever wider, nagging worries surface about the risk of overkill. On technical grounds such concern looks premature.
The gap is much wider for working couples with children under 17 years old.
Born in County Donegal, Ireland, he was a stalwart of Dublin's famous Abbey Theater when, in his 50's, he began to gain a wider audience through cinema and television.
The bank has been emphasising this in marketing efforts. As far as wider competition is concerned, leasing and factoring companies and bank subsidiaries are emphasising the benefits of alternative forms of finance.
Only a few months ago, analysts quoted 16,000 as the floor beyond which bank capital adequacy ratios would be violated. The pressure on banks to re-build their capital is spilling over into the wider economy.
Some carriers make the middle seat in a row slightly wider to reduce elbow-to-elbow claustrophobia.
"I was very, very surprised," he told reporters. "The prize means a great lot, not in the sense it's a passport to immortality. But it gives you the possibility of a wider audience.
They blame international traffickers who are offering a high-quality product to capture a wider share of the Spanish market.
Some of the wider operating loss stemmed from a new rule on accounting for income from loan-orgination fees, and from a reduction in the company's mortgage-backed securities portfolio ordered by the Bank Board.
(Mondeo is shorter than Sierra, but its wheelbase is longer and the track wider).
Analysts say the company has an advantage because it offers a much wider selection of supercomputer software than the Japanese competitors do.
However, as always with investment trusts, investors run the risk that a wider discount will open up, and eat into the trust's performance. If smaller companies already put on such a spurt of growth last year, have investors missed the boat?
Aside from the influential name of the borrower, the issue offers potentially greater liquidity because of its wider international placement.
A U.N. source said some of the increase was undoubtedly due to wider surveys conducted in Eastern Europe after last fall's democratic changes.
The yields were anywhere from 0.03 to 0.07 percentage point wider than late last Friday.
Other factors that could increase demand, he said, include the increasing age of the population, wider medical insurance coverage and the AIDS epidemic.
Union Carbide officials said the new plant will demonstrate that plastic can be re-used on a far wider scale.
IN Bomford Turner's yard the stack of stillages is going higher and wider. Pat's mountain, it is called: a pile of metal cages mounted on pallets.
By the time Exxon responded with its own equipment, a storm had moved through the area and spread the oil over a wider region.
In the nine months ended July 31, John Deere Credit's after-tax earnings rose 4.7%, aided by higher volume and a wider "spread," the profit margin on loans.
Certainly, customers are being given easy access to a wider variety of credit services than ever before.

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