Wider vs Rider - What's the difference?
wider | rider |
(wide)
Having a large physical extent from side to side.
Large in scope.
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, title= (sports) 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.
* Spenser
* Massinger
(phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
Remote; distant; far.
* Hammond
(obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
* Milton
* Latimer
* Herbert
(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional representation.
extensively
completely
away from a given goal
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So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
(cricket) 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
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one who rides, often a horse or motorcycle
(politics) a provision annexed to a bill under the consideration of a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill
(by extension) Something extra or burdensome that is imposed.
* A. S. Hardy
an amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements
A small, sliding piece of aluminium on a chemical balance, used to determine small weights
(UK, archaic) An agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveller.
(obsolete) One who breaks in or manages a horse.
(math) A problem of extra difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
* J. Fletcher
(mining) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
(shipbuilding) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame.
(nautical) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A robber.
As an adjective wider
is (wide).As a proper noun rider is
more often spelled ryder.wider
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Adjective
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Adjective
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- Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand.
- I was but two bows wide .
- the contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God
- our wide expositors
- It is far wide that the people have such judgments.
- How wide is all this long pretence!
- a wide''' character; a '''wide stream
Antonyms
* narrow (regarding empty area) * thin (regarding occupied area) * skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)Adverb
(er)- He travelled far and wide .
- He was wide awake.
- The arrow fell wide of the mark.
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Noun
(en noun)rider
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Noun
(en noun)- This [question] was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer.
- (Shakespeare)
- His mouldy money! half a dozen riders .
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