broadcast

To broadcast is to transmit information to a lot of people, especially when done via television or radio.

(verb)

When you tell everyone in the neighborhood some news, this is an example of a time when you broadcast the news.
When you produce and transmit a radio program, this is an example of a time when you broadcast the radio show.

See broadcast in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb

to broadcast radio or television programs

adjective

noun

adverb

far and wide

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See broadcast in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb broad·cast or broad·cast·ed, broad·cast·ing, broad·casts

verb, transitive

To transmit (a radio or television program) for public or general use.
To send out or communicate, especially by radio or television: The agency broadcast an urgent appeal for medical supplies.
To make known over a wide area: broadcast rumors. See Synonyms at announce.
To sow (seed) over a wide area, especially by hand.

verb, intransitive

a. To transmit a radio or television program for public or general use.
b. To be on the air: The station begins broadcasting at 6 A.M.
To participate in a radio or television program.
To send a transmission or signal; transmit.

noun

Transmission of a radio or television program or signal for public use.
a. A radio or television program: watched the morning news broadcast.
b. The duration of such a program.
The act of scattering seed.

adjective

a. Communicated by means of television or radio.
b. Of or relating to television or radio communications: broadcast journalism; the print and broadcast media.
Widely known.
Scattered over a wide area.

adverb

In a scattered manner.

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