English-Spanish translations for wide

• amplio
  El transporte es un sector muy amplio. Transport is a very wide area.
  Debe ser un debate de amplio alcance y amplios fundamentos. It must be a wide-ranging and broad-based debate.
  Hemos presentado un amplio abanico de propuestas. We have made wide-ranging offers.
• ancho
  El chip, de solo unos milímetros de ancho, puede contener, recibir y transmitir información sin ninguna conexión de cable. The chip, only a few millimetres wide, can contain, receive and transmit information without any cable connection.
  La semana pasada la sometí a una prueba, pero apenas pude encontrar ningún trozo de tierra entre las numerosas zanjas de 20 metros de ancho. Last week I put it to the test, but I was hardly able to find any pieces of land between the many ditches that were 20 metres wide.
  Entre los problemas se encuentra el transporte público y el acceso a los edificios, o las escaleras y puertas que no tienen el ancho suficiente para permitir el acceso a las sillas de ruedas. Some of the problems include public transport and access to buildings, stairways and doors which are not wide enough to allow wheelchair access.
• amplia
  Tenemos una amplia gama de socios. We have a wide range of partners.
  La discusión ha de ser amplia. Discussion must range far and wide.
  Pero es preciso dar una amplia resonancia a esta prohibición. But this ban must be widely supported.
• ancha
  En primer lugar, por supuesto, que haya una buena infraestructura, y entonces me estoy refiriendo a la banda ancha. First of all, we need a good infrastructure, of course, and I am taking a wide-angled view on this.
  Expresó su preocupación ante la manga ancha de las disposiciones sobre la transferencia de datos y las posibilidades de abuso que supone el acuerdo Europol-Estados Unidos. He expressed concern at the very wide provisions for transfer of data and the potential for abuse in the Europol-US agreement.
• extenso
  El informe llega lejos, tanto en el ámbito técnico como en el político, y es muy extenso. The report is a very wide-ranging one in both technical and political terms, and is extremely comprehensive.
  . – Señor Presidente, Señorías, para empezar quiero expresar mi más sincero agradecimiento al señor Kuhne por su extenso informe. . Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start by thanking Mr Kuhne most warmly for his wide-ranging report.
  Señor Presidente, yo también quiero dar las gracias al ponente por su trabajo en este informe tan magnífico, que abarca un ámbito muy extenso. Mr President, I too should like to thank the rapporteur for his work on this very rich report, which covers a very wide area.
• lateral

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