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Definitions: Broadcast |
BroadcastAdjective1. Made widely known especially by radio or television; "the broadcast news"; "everyone heard the broadcast rumors". 2. Sown by casting over a wide area especially by hand; "the broadcast sowing of wheat". Adverb1. So as to scatter or be distributed widely or in all directions. Noun1. Message that is transmitted by radio or television. 2. A radio or television show; "did you see his program last night?". Verb1. Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song". 2. Sow over a wide area, esp. by hand; "broadcast seeds". 3. Cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "broadcast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
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Computing | Broadcast A transmission to multiple, unspecified recipients. On Ethernet, a broadcast packet is a special type of multicast packet which all nodes on the network are always willing to receive. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BROADCAST | English | Basic Research on Advanced Distributed Computing From Algorithms to Systems | Computing, European Union |
| BRAM | English | Broadcast Recognition Access Method | Computer - (MAC) |
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Synonyms: BroadcastSynonyms: aired (adj), program (n), programme (n), air (v), beam (v), circularise (v), circularize (v), circulate (v), diffuse (v), disperse (v), disseminate (v), distribute (v), pass around (v), propagate (v), send (v), spread (v), transmit (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nonassemblage Dispersion | Verb: disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off; strew, straw, strow; ted; spirtle, cast, sprinkle; issue, deal out, retail, utter; resperse, intersperse; set abroach, circumfuse. |
Adjective: unassembled; (see assemble; ); dispersed; Verb: sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic; (general); adrift, stray; disheveled, streaming. | |
Prodigality | Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | No Homer, very few cartoons are broadcast live. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game featuring you , while singing your own song in a new commercial, starring you , broadcast during the Superbowl, in a game that you are winning, and I will not sleep until that happens. (Jerry Maguire; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) Seymour's first radio broadcast! I wanted to hear it so bad. I tried to be on time, but- (Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith; Howard Ashman) I read your broadcast up to the point where you describe the collapse of France. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; writing credit: Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger) | |
Lyrics | RADIO BROADCAST (Paradise By The Dashboard Light; performing artist: Meat Loaf) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mystery Broadcast (1943) The Little Broadcast (1943) Porky's Baseball Broadcast (1940) Philips Broadcast of 1938 (1938) A Buckaroo Broadcast (1938) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | CDC and WSB-TV employee members of CDC's Wide-Wide World Broadcast team, October 27, 1957. Credit: CDC. |  | CDC Laboratorians on set of the Wide-Wide World Broadcast. Credit: CDC. |
 | Expanding its broadcast universe far beyond the Baltimore area and into cyberspace, the ... Credit: NASA. |  | [NIH workers on the air - informal interviews broadcast by WTOP]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Ship's Chief Petty Officers listen to the radio broadcast of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to the Congress requesting a declaration of War against the Axis powers, circa 8 December 1941. Note photograph of President Roosevelt on the bulkhead. Credit: NAVY. |  | Adlai E. Stevenson, half-length portrait, standing at microphone, facing slightly right, waving to crowd in Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute field house, at Troy, N.Y., during television broadcast of campaign. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Notables broadcast at dinner of New England Society. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | American military delegation calling on Haile Selassie. His Majesty, Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia, photographed during a radio broadcast. These pictures are the first to be taken for publication since His Majesty's return to become a fighting membe. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Orlando, Florida. Wings Over Jordan, a popular Sunday morning program broadcast by Columbia Broadcasting System from station WDBO. President James A. Colston waiting on the announcers, right, for his cue to begin speaking to a vast audience. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | National Broadcasting Co., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. Broadcast in studio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Water; car wash; garden hose; bathe; bespatter; broadcast; dabble; dash; douse; drench; drown; get wet; moisten; paddle; plash; plunge; shower; slop; slosh; soak; sop; spatter; splatter; spray; spread; sprinkle; squirt; squirt; strew; throw; wade; wallow. |
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Business | Internet broadcast does have expanded utilization. (references) | |
Most of the radio station broadcast 24 hours a day. (references) | ||
The best advantage of Internet broadcast is its interactive features. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Switzerland | Private and foreign broadcast media operate freely. (references) |
Denmark | Over 200 private and public radio stations broadcast. (references) | |
Ecuador | The law limits foreign investment in broadcast media. (references) | |
Economic History | Chile | Chile has five national broadcast television networks. (references) |
Bulgaria | Bulgaria's broadcast and cable media are also expanding. (references) | |
Ecuador | Foreigners are not permitted to obtain broadcast concessions. (references) | |
Human Rights | South Africa | Several similar cases were reported to the ICD after the broadcast of the video. (references) |
China | Since 1998 many trials have been broadcast, and court proceedings have become a regular television feature. (references) | |
Malaysia | The group organized conferences, hosted a web site, and staged other events to broadcast its opposition to the ISA. (references) | |
Minorities | Comoros | Anti-Christian rhetoric was broadcast on the radio. (references) |
Morocco | Official media broadcast in the Berber language for limited periods each day. (references) | |
Bulgaria | In the Pleven region, a local television station repeatedly broadcast an inflammatory statement purportedly representing the views of the local Bulgarian Orthodox bishop. (references) | |
Political Economy | ROMANIA | In a few cases, pirated films were broadcast on local cable television channels. (references) |
NETHERLANDS | Broadcasting and Media Legislation: The Dutch fully comply with the EU Broadcast Directive. (references) | |
COLOMBIA | At least 50 percent of programmed advertising broadcast on television must have local content. (references) | |
Political Rights | Belarus | The OSCE/ODIHR found the broadcast media also overwhelmingly negative. (references) |
Vietnam | Legislators questioned and criticized ministers in sessions broadcast live on television. (references) | |
Ethiopia | Many of these debates were broadcast live on national radio and television and reported on in both government and private newspapers. (references) | |
Trade | France | The prime time rules go beyond the requirements of the EU Broadcast Directive and limit the access of U.S. programs to the lucrative French prime time market. (references) |
France | These broadcast quotas were approved by the EU Commission and became effective on July 1, 1992. They are less stringent than France's previous quota provisions, which required that 60 percent of all broadcasts be of EU origin and that 50 percent be originally produced in French. (references) | |
France | The 1989 EU Broadcast Directive requiring a "majority proportion" of television programming to be of European origin was incorporated into French legislation on January 21, 1992. France specifies a percentage of European programming (60 percent) and French programming (40 percent). (references) | |
Travel | Mexico | Mexico City has eight local TV stations that broadcast Spanish language programming. (references) |
Argentina | Buenos Aires has numerous local television channels that broadcast Spanish language programming. (references) | |
Belgium | TV viewers currently have access to programs broadcast from 7 different countries in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Dan Rather | We are resolute. We will not flinch. We will not bend. We will not swerve. We will get out a first class evening news broadcast this evening. |
Peter Jennings | We're having a visitation, I think, of Bishops at ABC this week to complain about the broadcast that I just did. |
Rush Limbaugh | Something that I have maintained over the course of many, many broadcast years is that the modern environmentalist wacko movement is the new home for displaced communists of the anti-capitalist movement. |
Walter Cronkite | Good evening from Paris. Tonight, this broadcast originates from outside the United States for the first time. |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | The proposal broadcast this morning involves the security of nations outside the Western Hemisphere. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Now, the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world. |
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| "Broadcast" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 32.19% of the time. "Broadcast" is used about 1,133 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 32.19% | 365 | 14,817 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 22.66% | 257 | 18,451 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.02% | 193 | 22,089 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.37% | 163 | 24,498 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 13.58% | 154 | 25,326 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 0.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,133 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Belgium | EVS Broadcast Equipment SA | France | Lagardere Active Broadcast S.A. |
| USA | Beasley Broadcast Group Incorporated | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "broadcast": broadcast area ♦ broadcast by television ♦ broadcast journalist ♦ broadcast media ♦ broadcast networks ♦ broadcast quality video ♦ broadcast storm ♦ broadcast the news ♦ cell broadcast service discontinuous reception cycle ♦ delayed broadcast ♦ direct broadcast ♦ hemisphere broadcast ♦ hot line broadcast ♦ hourly broadcast ♦ live broadcast ♦ meteorological broadcast ♦ meteorological broadcast center ♦ national broadcast ♦ news broadcast ♦ open line broadcast ♦ outside broadcast ♦ outside broadcast car ♦ party political broadcast ♦ prerecorded broadcast ♦ radio broadcast ♦ scheduled broadcast ♦ simultaneous broadcast ♦ transcribed weather broadcast ♦ unidirectional broadcast system network ♦ volmet broadcast. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "broadcast": broadcast-quality. | |
Ending with "broadcast": non-broadcast, re-broadcast. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | transmetoj (air, communicate, conduct, give, pipe, put across, reach, relay, telecast, translate, transmit), transmetim (communication, movement, remove, shift, translation, transmission), shpërndaj (allocate, allot, apportion, bestrew, clear, deal, deliver, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dish out, dispel, dispense, disperse, disseminate, dissolve, distribute, diversify, give out, give rise to, hand out, intersperse, ladle, lay, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, whiffle, wipe), emision (broadcasting, emission, prog, program, programme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منثور في جميع الجهات, نشر (apply, be published, bear, braying, bring out, circulate, diffusion, dispose, disseminate, distribute, edition, expand, extend, fudge, gazette, give out, hang out, insert in a newspaper, irradiate, issue, overspread, peddle, pervade, popularize, print, proclaim, programming, promulgate, promulgation, propagation, publicize, publishing, put forth, put out, run, saw, sawing, sawn, scatter, shake out, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, thrust, trephine, unfold, unroll, unwrap), واسع الإنتشار (popular), تحدث (converse, discourse, jaw, sing out, speak, talk, tell, yarn), إذاعي, إذاعة (banewort, broadcasting, promulgation, publication, transmission), أذاع (bandy, blazon, break, celebrate, circulate, cry, proclaim, promulgate, propagate, publish, radio, transmit, vend), بث (beam, propagate, propagation, radio, telecast, transmission, transmit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разпространявам (diffuse, disperse, disseminate, generalize, overspread, promulgate, propagate, purvey, put about, tell around), радиопредаване (airing, broadcasting, radio, steam-radio, transmission), хвърлям (aim, cast, cob, dart, dash, draw, fling, fling down, flung, heave, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, pass, pitch, plunk, pounce, precipitate, project, send, shadow, shed, shoot, shoot out, sling, sock, throw, throw off, throw out, toss, toss about, whop), емисия (broadcasting, emission, floatation, flotation, issue), предавам по радиото (radio), предавам по телевизията (telecast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 轉' (relay), '音 (transmit), '送 (beam, transmit), '" (transmit), ' (scatter, sow, spread), 广' (broadcasting), 廣' . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vysílat rozhlasem (radio), relace (ratio, relationship), pořad (agendas), přenos (relay, transference, transmission), hlásat (spread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | udsende. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitzenden, omroepen (call for). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | elsendi, disaŭdigi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پخش کردن(ازرادیو), منتشرکردن (Broaden, Disseminate, Print, Propagate, Publish), سخن پراکنی (Transmission), اشاعه دادن , رساندن (Convey, Extend, Forward, Give, Impart, Imply, Putin, Supply, Transmit, Understand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yleislähetys (broadcasting, multi-address call, multi-address message). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | message multidestinataire (broadcasting), émission (broadcasting), émission de radiodiffusion (radio broadcast), annoncer (break), diffusé, diffuser, diffusion (broadcasting), émettre, message plusieurs adresses (broadcasting), transmission automatique d'un message plusieurs destinataires (broadcasting), message multidiffusion (broadcasting), participer une émission, radiodiffuser, télévisé, téléviser, transmettre, faire une émission. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rundfunk (broadcasting, radio, wireless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκπομπή ραδιομετάδοσης (radio broadcast), εκπομπή (broadcasting, emission, issuance), εξαγγελλώ διά του ραδιόφωνου, αναμετάδοση (rediffusion, relay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לש"ר בר"יו, תש"יר, תש"ורת (communication, despatch, dispatch, message), ש"ור ר"יו, ש"ור (broadcasting, sending, transmission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sugároz (beam, eradiate, radiate, radiocast, to beam, to diffuse, to emit, to relay, to transmit, transmit), rádión közvetített, rádiómûsor, rádióközvetítés (broadcasting, transcription), közvetít (commentate, convey, go between, mediate, relay, televise, to convey, to cover, to interpose, to transmit), adás (administration, blanketing, rendering, transmission, transmitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | siaran radio (airwaver, broadcasting), menyiarkan, mencorongkan, menaburkan (disseminate, sow, strew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trasmettere (air, be transmitted, carry, communicate, convey, devolve, flash, pass, pass down, pass on, relay, relegate, send, teletype, transfer, transmit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ブローチ盤 (bloc, block, blockbuster, blocker, blocking, blocking signal, broaching machine, broadcloth, Broadway, brocade, broiler, Brownie, Browning), "送 (broadcasting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ブロードキャスト , ほうそう (beehive, broadcasting, fragrant herb, hive, lawyer, legal profession, packing, seeing an emperor off, smallpox, wrapping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 방송. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ym-skeaylt, ym-skeaylley (transmission, transmit), scaalheanit (diffuse, disbanded), scaalheaney (broadcasting, diffuse, disband, disperse, rout, scatter), scaalhean (dispersion, distribution, rout, scattering), creeley (broadcasting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | kringkaste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oadcastbray espalhado (diffuse, effuse, regnant), toa (adrift, slapdash), difundido, difundir (blow, diffuse, disseminated, generalize, propagate, publish, radiate, send), dispersão (disperse, dispersive, dissipation, leakage), disseminado (scattered, straggling), mão (at hand), emissão radiofônica, semear (crop, Dibble, seed, sow, sprinkle, strew), programa de rádio, radiado (radiate), radiar (radiate, radiocast, Ray), radiodifundido, radiodifundir (radiocast), semeadura (sowing), emissão de radiodifusão (radio broadcast). (various references) transmite prin radio (flash, wireless), transmis prin radio, risipit (besprent, dissipated, scattered, sparse), risipi (cast away, chase, chuck away, clear, consume, crumble, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, quiet, remove, repel, riot, scatter, settle, solve, spend, sprinkle, squander, strew, throw away, vanish, waste), radioemisiune, radiodifuzat, radiodifuza, rãspândire (diffusion, dispersion, emission, permeation, prevalence, spread, spreading), rãspândi (carry, cast, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, Dot, emit, fling, float, give forth, give out, intersperse, irradiate, outspread, promulgate, propagate, radiate, release, retail, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw), program de radio, emisiune de radio, difuza (disseminate, distribute, irradiate, propagate, scatter, spread, strew), cânta la radio. (various references) распространять (circulate, circulated, delate, diffuse, dilate, disperse, disseminate, disseminating, distribute, outspread, propagate, put about, shed, spread), радиовещание (broadcasting), радиопередача (broadcasting), передавать по радио (radio, radiocast). (various references) prenos preko radija, prenos (assignment, conveyance, devolution, haulage, transfer, transference, transposal), preneti (assign, carry, carry forward, carry over, communicate, convey, negotiate, relay, remise, translate), emitovati (carry, emit, radio, telecast), emisija (emission, issue, program). (various references) transmitir (carry, convey, devolve, ferry, give, hand down, overtop, pass on, pass over, put across, send, send on, televise, to broadcast, transmit), sembrar al voleo, pret de broadcast, emitir (beam, cast, emit, express, float, give, give off, give out, issue, launch, release, return, send, send out, throw off, throw out, vent), emision de radiodifusion (radio broadcast), emisión (broadcasting, emission, flotation, issuance, issue, launching, output, program, programme, release), difusión (broadcasting, diffusion, pervasion, suffusion), difundir (bandy about, bruit, diffuse, promulgate, radiate, send, set about, spread, transmit). (various references) broadcasting (broadcasting, multi-address call, multi-address message), utskicka, utsändning, utsända (emit, give forth), uppträda i radio, sprida ut (bewray, disseminate, outspread, scatter), så för hand, radioutsändning (broadcasting), radiosändning (broadcasting, radio transmission, radiotransmission), radioprogram (radio program, radio programme, radioshow), radio-, fleradressmeddelande (broadcasting, multi-address call, multi-address message). (various references) กระจาย (diffuse), รายการออกอากาศ. (various references) yaymak (bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, divulge, emit, evolve, exhale, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), yayın yapmak (beam, radiate, relay, send), yayın (air, broadcasting, edition, publication, publishing), yayımlamak (bring out, carry, put out), saçmak (besprinkle, bestrew, disseminate, distribute, eradiate, irradiate, lash out on, radiate, scatter, sow, spill, spit, splutter, sprinkle, strew, throw out), radyo yayını (radio, transmission), radyo veya televizyonla ilgili, ekmek (bread, bread and butter, crop, inseminate, loaf, plant, set, set out, sow, sprinkle, tame), duyurmak (advertise, advertize, announce, annunciate, Clarion, give forth, give out, give smth. publicity, noise abroad, notice, plead, proclaim, pronounce, publish). (various references) радіомовлення (radio), радіопрограма, передавати по радіо (radio). (various references) tung ra khắp nơi (broadcasting), được phát thanh (broadcasting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | disseminabatur, disseminabo, disseminabunt, disseminatum, disseminavero. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "broadcast": broadcasted, broadcaster, broadcasters, broadcasting, broadcasts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "broadcast": nonbroadcast, rebroadcast. (additional references) | |
Words containing "broadcast": nonbroadcasts, rebroadcasting, rebroadcasts. (additional references) | |
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"Broadcast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: breadfast, broadast. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "broadcast" (pronounced brô"dka'st) |
| 8 | b r ô" d k a' s t | rebroadcast. |
| 4 | -k a' s t | downcast, forecast, newscast, outcast, overcast, simulcast, telecast, typecast. |
| 3 | -a' s t | bypassed, chloroplast, Colorfast, enthusiast, flabbergast, Holdfast, iconoclast, lightfast, outlast, sandblast, steadfast, superfast. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: acrobats. | |
-2 letters: abators, acrobat, bastard, costard, ostraca, rabatos, tabards. | |
-3 letters: abator, aboard, aborts, abroad, actors, adsorb, aortas, boards, boarts, bracts, broads, carats, carbos, carobs, castor, cobras, costar, dobras, octads, rabato, rabats, scarab, scrota, tabard, tabors, tarocs. | |
-4 letters: abort, actor, aorta, ascot, bards, board, boars, boart, boast, boats, boras, borts, botas, bract, brads, brats, broad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-d-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: abdicators, broadcasts, tackboards. | |
+2 letters: broadcasted, broadcaster, contrabands, matchboards, patchboards, rebroadcast. | |
+3 letters: broadcasters, broadcasting, decarbonates, nonbroadcast, rebroadcasts, scratchboard. | |
+4 letters: carbohydrates, contrabandist, nonbroadcasts, scratchboards. | |
+5 letters: contrabandists, decarbonations, decarboxylates, overabstracted, particleboards, rebroadcasting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 72 6F 61 64 63 61 73 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. --- .- -.. -.-. .- ... - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110010 01101111 01100001 01100100 01100011 01100001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B r o a d c a s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0072 006F 0061 0064 0063 0061 0073 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)368481677069678586 |
