BROADSIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broadside mean? 

• BROADSIDE (noun)
  The noun BROADSIDE has 5 senses:

1. an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution

2. a speech of violent denunciation

3. all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship

4. the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern

5. the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship

  Familiarity information: BROADSIDE used as a noun is common.

• BROADSIDE (adjective)
  The adjective BROADSIDE has 1 sense:

1. toward a full side

  Familiarity information: BROADSIDE used as an adjective is very rare.

• BROADSIDE (verb)
  The verb BROADSIDE has 1 sense:

1. collide with the broad side of

  Familiarity information: BROADSIDE used as a verb is very rare.

• BROADSIDE (adverb)
  The adverb BROADSIDE has 1 sense:

1. with a side facing an object

  Familiarity information: BROADSIDE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROADSIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bill; broadsheet; broadside; circular; flier; flyer; handbill; throwaway

Context example:

he mailed the circular to all subscribers

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

ad; advert; advertisement; advertising; advertizement; advertizing (a public promotion of some product or service)

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

stuffer (an advertising circular that is enclosed with other material and (usually) sent by mail)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A speech of violent denunciation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

broadside; philippic; tirade

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

denouncement; denunciation (a public act of denouncing)

declamation (vehement oratory)

Sense 3

Meaning:

All of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

armament (weaponry used by military or naval force)

Domain category:

naval forces; navy (an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The whole side of a vessel from stem to stern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the ship was broadside to the dock

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

side (an extended outer surface of an object)

Derivation:

broadside (collide with the broad side of)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

fire; firing (the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy)

Domain category:

naval forces; navy (an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare)

• BROADSIDE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Toward a full side

Context example:

a broadside attack

Similar:

side (located on a side)

• BROADSIDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they broadside    ... he / she / it broadsides   
Past simple: broadsided   
Past participle: broadsided   
-ing form: broadsiding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Collide with the broad side of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

her car broad-sided mine

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

collide with; hit; impinge on; run into; strike (hit against; come into sudden contact with)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

broadside (the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern)

• BROADSIDE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With a side facing an object

Context example:

the wave caught the canoe broadside and capsized it

 Context examples 

My lads, said he, I've given Silver a broadside.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Their harbour drill and their harbour gunnery had been of no service when sails had to be trimmed and broadsides fired on the heave of an Atlantic swell.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Unpredictable Uranus was on a rampage, and you might have felt broadsided by events.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The Ghost clung on close to the wind and betrayed no inclination to fall off broadside to the trough.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Some efforts were even then being made, to cut this portion of the wreck away; for, as the ship, which was broadside on, turned towards us in her rolling, I plainly descried her people at work with axes, especially one active figure with long curling hair, conspicuous among the rest.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Chesterton set the whole world laughing with a series of alleged non-partisan essays on the subject, and the whole affair, controversy and controversialists, was well-nigh swept into the pit by a thundering broadside from George Bernard Shaw.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Round she came, till she was broadside on to me—round still till she had covered a half and then two thirds and then three quarters of the distance that separated us.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Knock-down for Wilson,” cried the referee, and the answering roar was like the broadside of a seventy-four.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After another broadside for the Doctor, and another for the Doctor's wife, the boys dispersed, and I went back into the house, where I found the guests all standing in a group about the Doctor, discussing how Mr. Jack Maldon had gone away, and how he had borne it, and how he had felt it, and all the rest of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And as I choked and strangled, and as the Ghost wallowed for an instant, broadside on and rolling straight over and far into the wind, I beheld a huge sea rise far above my head.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)