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▪ I. broadcast, a., adv., n.|ˈbrɔːdkɑːst, -æ-|
[f. broad adv. + cast pa. pple.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of seed, etc.: Scattered abroad over the whole surface, instead of being sown in drills or rows. b. Of sowing: Performed by this method.
1767A. Young Farmer's Lett. People 115 The sowing is either in the broad-cast mode, or by drilling. 1831Sir J. Sinclair Corr. II. 424 No broad-cast sowing can equal it. 1842E. J. Lance Cott. Farmer 19 On broad-cast turnips, thirty bushels of lime per acre, was the quantity used.
2. fig.
a. Scattered widely abroad, widely disseminated.
b. Wide, as if scattering seed broadcast.
1785Burke Sp. Nab. Arcot's Debts Wks. IV. 205 With a broad-cast swing of his arm, he squanders over his Indian field a sum, etc. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xviii. 135 Broadcast accusations.
3. Disseminated by means of radio or television.
1922Times 6 Apr. 17/7 Request to the Postmaster-General to consider the desirability of including weather forecasts in any broadcast distribution of information by wireless telephony. 1924Wireless World 3 Sept. 664/1 Broadcast Announcements in Two Languages. 1936Discovery Apr. 124/2 Mr Thornton's broadcast talks on exotic music are widely known.
B. adv. Only in phr. to sow broadcast, scatter broadcast, throw, etc. broadcast.
a. in Agric.
1832Veg. Subst. Food 38 Scattering the seed..over the whole surface..is..called sowing broad-cast. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. I. 83 Seed sown either broadcast or in drills.
b. fig.
1814Sir R. Wilson Diary II. 391, I have..thrown broad⁓cast a fruitful grain, and converted the soil of my banishment into a field that ought to be rich in future produce. 1876Green Short Hist. vi. §6 (1882) 334 A host of spies were scattered broadcast over the land.
C. n.
1. Broadcast sowing, or mode.
1796C. Marshall Garden. xv. (1813) 60 At broad-cast, trample the seed in with the feet. 1797Holcroft Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxx. 224 The corn has not been sown with broad-cast. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. iii. 50 The rate of seed to the acre..where broadcast is adopted.
2. The action or an act of broadcasting by radio or television. Also attrib.
1922Daily Mail 8 Aug. 7/3 (heading) World Broadcast. 1924Reith (title) Broadcast over Britain. 1924Westm. Gaz. 4 Dec., The Postmaster-General's power to include control over broadcast receivers. 1926Glasgow Herald 16 Nov. 9 The ban on the broadcast of controversial topics. 1955Times 10 May 10/3 Whether Sir Winston Churchill will make a sound or television broadcast for the Conservative Party.
▪ II. ˈbroadcast, v.
[f. as prec. + cast v.]
1. To scatter (seed, etc.) abroad with the hand.
1813A. Young Essex Agric. I. 333 They sow..the barley..spraining the first [half]; and broad-casting the second. 1836Montgomery Poet's Portfolio 248 Sow in the morn thy seed..Broad-cast it o'er the land. 1846Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VII. ii. 591 It is preferable to broadcast the guano.
2. fig. To scatter or disseminate widely.
1829I. Taylor Enthus. iv. 270 The doctrine of missionary zeal..has been broad-cast over Christendom. 1880Ruskin Lett. to Clergy 369 Showing his detestation of the sale of indulgences by broadcasting these gratis from his pulpit.
3. To disseminate (a message, news, a musical or dramatic performance, or any audible or visible matter) from a radio or television transmitting station to the receiving sets of listeners and viewers; said also of a speaker or performer. Also absol.
Inflected pa. tense and pa. pple. broadcast (cf. broadcast a. 3); occas. broadcasted.
1921Discovery Apr. 92/1 The [wireless] station at Poldhu is used partly for broadcasting Press and other messages to ships, that is, sending out messages without receiving replies. 1922Daily Mail 8 Aug. 7/3 The largest and most powerful wireless station that can broadcast to the world. Ibid. 11 Nov. 7 Government arrangements for broadcasting. 1924Daily News 13 Dec. 6/7 The speech broadcast to our homes to-day. 1956M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xvi. 188 Coon-Sanders..and Henry Halstead broadcasted over the radio.
Hence ˈbroadcasted ppl. a., = broadcast a. 3. Now rare.
1923Glasgow Herald 3 Feb. 8 In cities the ‘broadcasted’ entertainment can never prove a serious rival to the theatre and concert hall. 1924Ibid. 28 Aug. 7 The crowning event was the broadcasted evening service at Spurgeon's Tabernacle on Sunday. |