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# wide

«wide» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **far from one side to the other** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (wide, wider, widest); adverb (wide)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wide means far from one side to the other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#m1)

2) Wide tells how far across something is, as in «3 feet wide». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#m2)

3) Wide means covering many things, as in «a wide choice». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#m3)

4) Wide (adverb) means fully or far, as in «wide open», «wide awake». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a length across, used for rectangles: so many feet wide and so many long; in everyday life, wide roads, rivers and doors; phrases «wide open», «wide awake», «far and wide», «worldwide», «width»

### examples

- All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. (Writings LAM.3.46, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x1)
- Against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? (Prophets ISA.57.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x2)
- I opened wide my mouth, and panted; for I longed for Thy commandments. (Writings PSA.119.131, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x3)
- The garden is 10 feet wide and 20 feet long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x4)
- How wide is the room? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x5)
- The road is 30 feet wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x6)
- Find the area of a field 8 yards wide and 12 long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x7)
- The river is too wide to swim across. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x8)
- She opened her eyes wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x9)
- The baby was wide awake at midnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x10)
- The shop has a wide choice of books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x11)
- The door was wide open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x12)
- People came from far and wide to see the show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x13)
- They stopped in a wide courtyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x14)

### note

A measure of length across. Wide × long gives area; 2 × (wide + long) gives the distance around. Trap: read whether the question asks for area or perimeter. The noun is «width». The opposite is «narrow».

### In the corpora

- [Against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1234/)
- [They open wide their mouth against me, as a ravening and a roaring lion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.321/)
- [Yea, they open their mouth wide against me; they say: 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.551/)
- [Yonder sea, great and wide, therein are creeping things innumerable, living creatures, both small and great.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1849/)
- [He will judge among the nations; He filleth it with dead bodies, He crusheth the head over a wide land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2052/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wide» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.