scant vs wide

scant

adj
  • Sparing; parsimonious; chary. 

  • Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager. 

verb
  • To fail, or become less; to scantle. 

  • To limit in amount or share; to stint. 

noun
  • A sheet of stone. 

  • Scarcity; lack. 

  • A small piece or quantity. 

  • A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size. 

  • A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. 

det
  • Very little, very few. 

wide

adj
  • Antagonistic, provocative. 

  • Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation. 

  • Operating at the side of the playing area. 

  • Large in scope. 

  • Having a large physical extent from side to side. 

  • On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc. 

adv
  • away from or to one side of a given goal 

  • completely 

  • extensively 

  • So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening. 

noun
  • 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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