broadcast

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To transmit (a radio or television program) for public or general use.
2. v. To send out or communicate, especially by radio or television: The agency broadcast an urgent appeal for medical supplies.
3. v. To make known over a wide area: broadcast rumors. See Synonyms at announce.
4. v. To sow (seed) over a wide area, especially by hand.
5. v. To transmit a radio or television program for public or general use.
6. v. To be on the air: The station begins broadcasting at 6 A.M.
7. v. To participate in a radio or television program.
8. v. To send a transmission or signal; transmit.
9. n. Transmission of a radio or television program or signal for public use.
10. n. A radio or television program: watched the morning news broadcast.
11. n. The duration of such a program.
12. n. The act of scattering seed.
13. adj. Communicated by means of television or radio.
14. adj. Of or relating to television or radio communications: broadcast journalism; the print and broadcast media.
15. adj. Widely known.
16. adj. Scattered over a wide area.
17. adv. In a scattered manner.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Cast or dispersed upon the ground with the hand, as seed in sowing: opposed to sowed in drills or rows.
2. Widely spread or diffused.
3. n. In agriculture, a method of sowing in which the seed is thrown from the hand in handfuls.
4. By scattering or throwing at large from the hand: as, to sow broadcast.
5. So as to disseminate widely; in wide dissemination.
6. To sow broadcast.

Wiktionary

1. adj. cast or scattered widely, in all directions
2. n. A transmission of a radio or television programme aired to be received by anyone with a receiver.
3. n. A programme (show, bulletin, documentary ...) so transmitted.
4. n. dated The act of scattering seed.
5. v. To transmit a message or signal via radio waves or electronic means
6. v. To transmit a message over a wide area
7. v. To appear as speaker, presenter or performer in a broadcast program
8. v. archaic To sow seeds over a wide area
9. v. To send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people
10. v. Simple past tense and past participle of broadcast.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Agric.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
2. n. 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.
3. adj. Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
4. adj. Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.
5. 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.
6. v. to cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely.
7. v. to transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station.
8. v. to disseminate (information, a speech, an advertisement, etc.) from a radio or television station.
9. v. to spread (information, news, gossip) widely by any means.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. message that is transmitted by radio or television
2. v. broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
3. v. sow over a wide area, especially by hand
4. n. a radio or television show
5. v. cause to become widely known