English-French translations for wide

• large
  La discussion doit "ratisser large". Discussion must range far and wide.
  Ce défi est d'une portée très large. The contours of the challenge are wide.
  Nous sommes opposés à cette large introduction des données biométriques. We are against such a wide introduction of biometrics.
• ample
  J'estime qu'il a recueilli une ample reconnaissance dans cette Assemblée. I think it was widely appreciated in this Assembly.
• complet
  Je remercie Mme Hall pour son rapport particulièrement complet et le recommande aux collègues. I thank Ms Hall for her wide-ranging report and I commend it to colleagues.
  Monsieur le Président, je remercie et félicite M. Deva pour son rapport aussi vaste que complet. Mr President, thank you and congratulations to Mr Deva for a very wide-ranging and comprehensive report.
  C’est pourquoi j’estime que nous devrions nous mettre d’accord sur un plan de communication plus vaste et plus complet, en particulier au niveau institutionnel. I therefore feel that we should agree on a more wide-ranging and complete communication plan, especially at institutional level.
• étendu
  Une Union plus vaste nécessite des règles différentes et plus étendues. A larger Union needs different, more wide-ranging rules.
  Maintenant, nous avons enfin une Union européenne étendue à toute l’Europe. We now finally have a European Union which is Europe-wide.
  La proposition du document-cadre sera très étendue. The proposition in the framework document will be quite wide.
• vaste
  C'est une définition très vaste. This is a very wide definition.
  Ce rapport est certes vaste, trop vaste même pour les thèmes qui y sont abordés. It is certainly wide-ranging - too wide-ranging in terms of the issues addressed.
  Où sont les vastes critiques de l’avis du SCF? Where are the wide criticisms of the SCF opinion?

Definition of wide

• Having a large physical extent from side to side
• Large in scope
• Operating at the side of the playing area
• On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc
• Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth
• Located some distance away; distant, far.
• Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc
• Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation
• extensively
• completely
• away from a given goal
• So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening
• A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score

Examples

• We walked down a wide corridor
• The inquiry had a wide remit
• That team needs a decent wide player
• Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but its wide
• The wide, lifeless expanse
• a wide character; a wide stream
• He travelled far and wide.
• He was wide awake.
• The arrow fell wide of the mark.
• A few shots were fired but they all went wide.

Related words

• widespread
• worldwide
• widely
• world-wide
• wide-angle
• wider
• widen
• nationwide
• wide-eyed