wide-angle lens fisheye lens | a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length), produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery |
wide area network WAN | a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network |
widebody aircraft wide-body aircraft wide-body twin-aisle airplane | a commercial airliner with two aisles |
wide screen | a projection screen that is much wider than it is high |
wide wale | corduroy with wide ribs |
World Wide Web WWW web | computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol |
wake up awake arouse awaken wake come alive waken | stop sleeping, She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock |
lie awake | lie without sleeping, She was so worried, she lay awake all night long |
wide wide of the mark | not on target, the kick was wide, the arrow was wide of the mark, a claim that was wide of the truth |
heads-up wide-awake | fully alert and watchful, played heads-up ball |
wide wide-cut full | having ample fabric, the current taste for wide trousers, a full skirt |
awake(p) | not in a state of sleep, completely conscious, lay awake thinking about his new job, still not fully awake |
unsleeping wide-awake | fully awake, the unsleeping city, so excited she was wide-awake all night |
alert alive(p) awake(p) | mentally perceptive and responsive,an alert mind, alert to the problems, alive to what is going on, awake to the dangers of her situation, was now awake to the reality of his predicament |
a across-the-board all-embracing all-encompassing all-inclusive blanket(a) broad encompassing extensive panoptic wide | broad in scope or content, across-the-board pay increases, an all-embracing definition, blanket sanctions against human-rights violators, an invention with broad applications, a panoptic study of Soviet nationality- T.G.Winner, granted him wide powers |
cosmopolitan ecumenical oecumenical general universal worldwide world-wide | of worldwide scope or applicability, an issue of cosmopolitan import, the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time- Christopher Morley, universal experience |
varied wide-ranging | widely different, varied motives prompt people to join a political party, varied ethnic traditions of the immigrants |
broad spacious wide | very large in expanse or scope, a broad lawn, the wide plains, a spacious view, spacious skies |
wide-ranging | including much, the pianist's wide-ranging repertoire |
wide-open lawless | lax in enforcing laws, a wide-open town |
continent-wide | involving the entire continent |
worldwide world-wide | spanning or extending throughout the entire world, worldwide distribution, a worldwide epidemic |
global planetary world(a) worldwide world-wide | involving the entire earth, not limited or provincial in scope, global war, global monetary policy, neither national nor continental but planetary, a world crisis, of worldwide significance |
wide-open | open wide, left the doors wide-open |
wide-eyed wide | (used of eyes) fully open or extended, stared with wide eyes |
childlike wide-eyed round-eyed dewy-eyed simple | exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity, childlike trust, dewy-eyed innocence, listened in round-eyed wonder |
wide broad | having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other, wide roads, a wide necktie, wide margins, three feet wide, a river two miles broad, broad shoulders, a broad river |
wide-screen(a) | (motion pictures) projected on a screen with much greater width than height |
wide | great in degree, won by a wide margin |
fisheye wide-angle | of or relating to a fisheye lens |
far and wide far and near | over great areas or distances, everywhere, he traveled far and wide, the news spread far and wide, people came from far and near, searched for the child far and near |
wide widely | to or over a great extent or range, far, wandered wide through many lands, he traveled widely |
wide | with or by a broad space, stand with legs wide apart, ran wide around left end |
wide astray | far from the intended target, the arrow went wide of the mark, a bullet went astray and killed a bystander |
wide | to the fullest extent possible, open your eyes wide, with the throttle wide open |