BROADCAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broadcast mean? 

• BROADCAST (noun)
  The noun BROADCAST has 2 senses:

1. message that is transmitted by radio or television

2. a radio or television show

  Familiarity information: BROADCAST used as a noun is rare.

• BROADCAST (verb)
  The verb BROADCAST has 3 senses:

1. broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television

2. sow over a wide area, especially by hand

3. cause to become widely known

  Familiarity information: BROADCAST used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROADCAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Message that is transmitted by radio or television

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("broadcast" is a kind of...):

message (a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "broadcast"):

radio broadcast (a broadcast via radio)

simulcast (a broadcast that is carried simultaneously by radio and television (or by FM and AM radio))

telecast (a television broadcast)

newscast (a broadcast of news or commentary on the news)

rebroadcast (a broadcast that repeated at a later time)

Derivation:

broadcast (cause to become widely known)

broadcast (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A radio or television show

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

broadcast; program; programme

Context example:

did you see his program last night?

Hypernyms ("broadcast" is a kind of...):

show (a social event involving a public performance or entertainment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "broadcast"):

episode; installment; instalment (a part of a broadcast serial)

sustaining program (a program without a commercial sponsor)

serial; series (a serialized set of programs)

game show; giveaway (a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards)

television program; television show; TV program; TV show (a program broadcast by television)

chat show; talk show (a program during which well-known people discuss a topic or answer questions telephoned in by the audience)

rerun (a program that is broadcast again)

news; news program; news show (a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary)

Derivation:

broadcast (cause to become widely known)

broadcast (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)

• BROADCAST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they broadcast    ... he / she / it broadcasts   
Past simple: broadcasted   
Past participle: broadcasted   
-ing form: broadcasting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

air; beam; broadcast; send; transmit

Context example:

We cannot air this X-rated song

Hypernyms (to "broadcast" is one way to...):

air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)

Cause:

air (be broadcast)

Domain category:

broadcast medium; broadcasting (a medium that disseminates via telecommunications)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "broadcast"):

satellite (broadcast or disseminate via satellite)

sportscast (broadcast a sports event)

telecast; televise (broadcast via television)

interrogate (transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication)

rebroadcast; rerun (broadcast again, as of a film)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

broadcast (message that is transmitted by radio or television)

broadcast (a radio or television show)

broadcaster (someone who broadcasts on radio or television)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sow over a wide area, especially by hand

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

broadcast seeds

Hypernyms (to "broadcast" is one way to...):

seed; sow (place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth)

Domain category:

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

broadcaster (a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to become widely known

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread

Context example:

broadcast the news

Hypernyms (to "broadcast" is one way to...):

air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)

Cause:

circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)

Verb group:

circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "broadcast"):

podcast (distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer)

sow (introduce into an environment)

generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize (cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use)

carry; run (include as the content; broadcast or publicize)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

broadcast (message that is transmitted by radio or television)

broadcast (a radio or television show)

 Context examples 

The ninth house rules distant and foreign travel and international relationships, immigration (including green cards, visas, passports, and citizenship), publishing and broadcasting projects, legal matters, and academic pursuits.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A documentary broadcast on Sunday on the UK's Channel 4 claims the RMS Titanic was weakened by a three-week fire before its infamous 1912 sinking.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

A suspension of service (especially of radio or tv broadcasting).

(Blackout, NCI Thesaurus)

The change, from the analogue FM system to digital audio broadcasting, started on 11 January 2017 and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

(Norway start a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations, Wikipedia)

His photographs were published broadcast, and special writers exploited his strong, bronzed face, his scars, his heavy shoulders, his clear, quiet eyes, and the slight hollows in his cheeks like an ascetic's.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The study found that broadcasting healthy reef sounds using underwater loudspeakers can double the total number of fish arriving onto experimental patches of reef habitat as well as increasing the number of species by 50 per cent.

(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)

They availed themselves of the rare privilege to the fullest extent, for some tried the pleasing experiment of drinking milk while standing on their heads, others lent a charm to leapfrog by eating pie in the pauses of the game, cookies were sown broadcast over the field, and apple turnovers roosted in the trees like a new style of bird.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Or you may instead experience luck involving a publishing or broadcasting project, a legal matter, or one involving your pursuit for an advanced university degree.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They will meet in Capricorn, your ninth house of foreign people and places, publishing and broadcasting, legal matters, immigration, passport, visa, green card, and all topics related to higher education (college and beyond).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Also, if you write for the Internet, are in publishing, broadcasting, social media, podcasting, app or software development, or other parts of the digital world, Mercury could create frustrations.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)