Word Finder - broad

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A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.

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A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

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A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.

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Wide in extent or scope.

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the broad expanse of ocean

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Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

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Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.

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Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

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Plain; evident.

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a broad hint

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(writing) Unsubtle; obvious.

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Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

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Gross; coarse; indelicate.

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a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humour

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(of an accent) Strongly regional.

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(Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

The old man looked up with a broad smile.

His face lit up with a broad smile.

A broad smile crossed his face.

There were no broad, smooth highways as there are now.

His shoulders were broad, his chest wide, his stomach flat, his hips lean.

Effie looked up, a broad smile crossing her face.

His broad shoulders swayed gracefully with the swing of his stride.

She regarded his broad back skeptically, instantly reminded of her father.

It is a fine broad leaf to look on.

The soldiers, for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad as their officer--all looked at their commander like children in an embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably reflected on theirs.

She had her back to him when he opened the door, but when, turning quickly, she saw his broad, surprised face, she blushed and came rapidly up to him.

His broad head with its bold features and glittering eyes was resting on his hand.

Suddenly he burst out into a fit of his broad, good-natured laughter, so loud that men from various sides turned with surprise to see what this strange and evidently solitary laughter could mean.

She stared at his broad back, testing a hand full of his Jacket gingerly.

As the path turned, the broad side of a metal building came into view, nestled at the foot of a cliff.

His frame was thick beneath the snug clothing, with a tucked waist and flared upper body extending from the tucked waist to his wide, broad shoulders.

Fred now wore an "I-told-you-so," smile as broad as Mrs. Glass.

They derive their name of Tylopoda ("boss-footed") from the circumstance that the feet form large cushion-like pads, supporting the weight of the body, while the toes have broad nails on their upper surface only, instead of being encased in hoofs.

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

One afternoon I amused myself by watching a barred owl (Strix nebulosa) sitting on one of the lower dead limbs of a white pine, close to the trunk, in broad daylight, I standing within a rod of him.

Suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count's face began to twitch.

They were driving downhill and coming out upon a broad trodden track across a meadow, near a river.

He was a stout, dark, red- faced peasant in the forties, with thick lips, a broad knob of a nose, similar knobs over his black frowning brows, and a round belly.

The menu is broad, featuring grinders, baked stuff pastas and poultry, seafood and veal dishes.

She raised on an elbow, a broad smile growing across her face.

Jame said nothing else, and she was hauled up into broad daylight.

Her eyes took in his broad shoulders, thick upper body and lean lower body.

The broad Oxford road forms its picturesque main street.

Above the cliff west of the old town is a broad promenade called the Lees, commanding a notable view of the channel and connected by lifts with the shore below.

A broad ring of crystalline rocks (Swaziland schists) encircles the Transvaal except on the south, where the Karroo formation extends over the Vaal River.

The bay, unlike all the other better harbours of the island, has a broad mouth, 2 m.

The short and broad teeth terminate in four subequal toes, protected by short rounded hoofs, and all reaching the ground.

During the months of December, January and February the rivers are frozen up, and even the Gulf of Chih-li is fringed with a broad border of ice.

In the broad river valleys of the eastern part of the Prairie Plains region are forests and isolated groves consisting principally of pecan, cypress, cottonwood and several species of oak.

Both branches terminate in a broad tidal lake immediately above Lisbon.

Such is the universal law, which no man can ever outwit, and with regard to the railroad even we may say it is as broad as it is long.

We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.

For I came to town still, like a friendly Indian, when the contents of the broad open fields were all piled up between the walls of the Walden road, and half an hour sufficed to obliterate the tracks of the last traveller.

Stout, about the average height, broad, with huge red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something particularly agreeable before going away.

Along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, light blue Viennese caleche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn by six horses at a smart trot.

Most of those present were elderly, respected men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures and voices.

Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took up a glass and a pipe that were handed him.

Mary Hendrikhovna, a plump little blonde German, in a dressing jacket and nightcap, was sitting on a broad bench in the front corner.

Malasha looked down from the oven with shy delight at the faces, uniforms, and decorations of the generals, who one after another came into the room and sat down on the broad benches in the corner under the icons.

He was lean, with broad shoulders, narrow hips and a flat abdomen.

In Pteromys the tail is cylindrical and comparatively thin, while in Sciuropterus it is broad, flat and laterally expanded, so as to compensate for the absence of the interfemoral membrane by acting as a supplementary parachute.

The broad molars are either bluntly tuberculated or transversely ridged; the outer side of the hind part of the lower jaw has a deep pocket; and the hind-limbs are generally very long, with the structure of the foot similar to that of the bandicoots.

Maceio is attractively situated in the midst of large plantations of coco-nut and dende palms, though the broad sandy beach in front and the open sun-burned plain behind give a barren character to its surroundings.

Relieved from its load it does not, like other animals, seek the shade, even when that is to be found, but prefers to kneel beside its burden in the broad glare of the sun, seeming to luxuriate in the burning sand.

On the other hand, the plastic quality of terracotta suggested an abundance of delicate ornamentation on a small scale, which produced its effect by its own individual beauty without broad reference to the general scheme.