broadcast

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive), Adjective, Adverb
• HYPHEN: broad=cast

CIDE DICTIONARY

broadcast, n. 

•  A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [PJC]

broadcast, a. 

•  Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.  [1913 Webster]
•  Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.  [1913 Webster]

broadcast, adv. 

 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.  [1913 Webster]

broadcast, v. 

•  to cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely.  [1913 Webster]
•  to transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station.  [PJC]
•  to disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station.  [PJC]
•  to spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

broadcast, v., n., adj., & adv.
--v. (past broadcast or broadcasted; past part. broadcast)
1 tr. transmit (programmes or information) by radio or television.
2 intr. undertake or take part in a radio or television transmission.
3 tr. scatter (seed etc.) over a large area, esp. by hand.
--n. a radio or television programme or transmission.
--adj.
1 transmitted by radio or television.
2 a scattered widely. b (of information etc.) widely disseminated.
--adv. over a large area.

Derivative

broadcaster n. broadcasting n.

Etymology

BROAD + CAST past part.

THESAURUS

broadcast

accessible, advertise, advertisement, affirmed, air, airing, announce, announced, announcement, annunciate, attenuation, bandying, beam, bed, bestrew, blazon, book, broadcasting, brought to notice, bruit about, bruiting, bruiting about, canned show, circulated, circulation, circumfuse, circumfusion, commercial, commercial program, common knowledge, common property, communicate, convey, current, deal out, declared, dibble, diffract, diffraction, diffuse, diffused, diffusion, dilution, discrete, dispensation, dispense, dispersal, disperse, dispersed, dispersion, display, dispread, disseminate, disseminated, dissemination, dissipated, dissipation, distribute, distributed, distribution, diverge, divergence, drill, electrical transcription, evaporation, evulgation, expansion, fan out, forest, fragmentation, get across, get over, give, give word, hand on, impart, implant, in circulation, in print, inseminate, insemination, issuance, issue, leave word, made public, make known, network show, newscast, open, overscatter, oversow, overspread, pass, pass along, pass on, peppering, periodical, plant, planting, pot, printing, proclaim, proclaimed, proclamation, promulgate, promulgation, pronouncement, pronunciamento, propagate, propagated, propagation, public, publication, publish, published, publishing, put in, radiate, radiation, radio, radio fare, radiobroadcast, rebroadcast, reforest, reforestation, relay, render, report, reported, rerun, reset, resetting, retail, retimber, retimbering, scatter, scatter seed, scattered, scattering, scatterment, seed, seed down, seeding, seminate, semination, send, send word, serial, set, setting, share, share with, shortwave, shotgun pattern, show, sign off, sign on, signal, soap opera, sound effects, sow, sow broadcast, sowing, sparse, spattering, splay, sporadic, sportscast, spread, spread out, spreading, spreading abroad, sprinkling, stated, straggling, straggly, straw, strew, strewing, strewn, strown, sustainer, taped program, telecast, telecasting, televise, televised, tell, transfer, transmission, transmit, transplant, transplantation, utter, ventilation, volatilization, widespread, wireless

ROGET THESAURUS

broadcast

Dispersion

VB 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, turn adrift, cast adrift, scatter to the winds, spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.

N nonassemblage, dispersion, dispersion, disjunction, divergence, aspersion, scattering, dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution, apportionment, spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction, affusion, waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra waveson, unassembled &c (assemble), dispersed, sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread, epidemic, adrift, stray, disheveled, streaming, sparsim, here and there, passim.