broadcast
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)broadcasts
- message that is transmitted by radio or televisionType of messageKinds telecast, rebroadcast, newscast, simulcast, radio broadcast
- a radio or television show“did you see his program last night?”Synonyms: programprogrammeType of showKinds serial, news program, television program, rerun, talk show, episode, sustaining program, game show
Verb (3)broadcasts, broadcasting
- broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television“We cannot air this X-rated song”Synonyms: airsendbeamtransmitMore general publicize, publiciseMore specific telecast, rerun, interrogate, sportscast, satelliteCauses air
- sow over a wide area, especially by hand“broadcast seeds”More general sow, seed
- cause to become widely known“spread information”“circulate a rumor”“broadcast the news”Synonyms: circulatecircularizecircularisedistributedisseminatepropagatespreaddiffusedispersepass aroundMore general publicize, publiciseMore specific carry, sow, popularize, podcastCauses go around, spreadSimilar go around, spread
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Translations
Noun transmission of a radio or television programme
- Spanish
- emisión
- French
- émission
- German
- Ausstrahlung
- Italian
- trasmissione
- Portuguese
- transmissão
- Turkish
- yayın
- Russian
- трансля́ция transljácija
- Arabic
- بَثّ baṯṯ
- Chinese
- 广播 guǎngbō
- Japanese
- 放送 hōsō
19 more languages
- Dutch
- uitzending
- Polish
- emisja
- Greek
- εκπομπή ekpompí
- Korean
- 방송 bangsong
- Indonesian
- siaran
- Vietnamese
- phát sóng
- Hungarian
- adás
- Portuguese (PT)
- difusão
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 廣播 guǎngbō
- Catalan
- emissió
- Czech
- vysílání
- Danish
- udsendelse
- Finnish
- lähetys
- Georgian
- მაუწყებლობა mauc̣q̇ebloba
- Icelandic
- útsending
- Lithuanian
- transliacija
- Norwegian
- kringkasting
- Romanian
- emisiune
- Welsh
- darllediad
Verb to transmit by radio or TV
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. Agriculture A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
2. an act of broadcasting; specifically, a program in which sounds or images are transmitted in all directions from a radio or television station; — usually referring to a scheduled program on a commercial or public service radio or television station, using the normal radio frequencies for those media, in contrast to a radiotelephone conversation, which may also be transmitted in all directions, but is intended for receipt by a base station in the telephone network.
1. Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
2. Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); — opposed to planting in hills, or rows.
So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.
1. to cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely.
2. to transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station.
3. to disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station.
4. to spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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.