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# broadcast

«broadcast» in Mova's school dictionary: **to send out a programme on television, radio or the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (broadcast, broadcasts, broadcast or broadcasted, broadcasting); noun (a broadcast, broadcasts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To broadcast means to send out a programme on television, radio or the internet: "the match will be broadcast live". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broadcast/#m1)

2) (noun) A broadcast is a programme sent out on TV, radio or online: "a news broadcast". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broadcast/#m2)

3) To broadcast news or a secret means to tell lots of people: "don't broadcast it". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broadcast/#m3)

4) (farming, old) To broadcast seeds means to scatter them widely by hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broadcast/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In media lessons, broadcasters, live broadcasts and news broadcasts are studied. In maths, broadcast times are worked out: "a 90-minute broadcast starting at 7:15 ends at 8:45". In everyday life, "don't broadcast it" means keep it quiet. Phrases: live broadcast, news broadcast, broadcast live, broadcaster.

### examples

- The football final is broadcast live on TV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broadcast/#x1)
- We listened to the news broadcast on the radio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broadcast/#x2)
- The school play was broadcast online for grandparents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broadcast/#x3)
- The broadcast starts at 6:30 and lasts 30 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broadcast/#x4)
- Don't broadcast my secret to the whole class! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broadcast/#x5)
- The farmer broadcast the seeds across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broadcast/#x6)
- The radio station broadcasts music all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broadcast/#x7)

### note

Past form: usually broadcast (the same), sometimes broadcasted. A broadcaster is a person or company that broadcasts. Formed from broad (wide) + cast (throw).

### In the corpora

- [A broadcast, such as radio or television, sends the same message from one sender to many people at once.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/100-communication-letters-to-internet/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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