shallow vs wide

shallow

adj
  • Not steep; close to horizontal. 

  • Not far forward, close to the net. 

  • Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide. 

  • Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing. 

  • Concerned mainly with superficial matters. 

  • Extending not far downward. 

  • Lacking interest or substance. 

noun
  • A costermonger's barrow. 

  • A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water. 

  • A fish, the rudd. 

verb
  • To make or become less deep. 

wide

adj
  • Having a large physical extent from side to side. 

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

  • Antagonistic, provocative. 

  • Operating at the side of the playing area. 

  • Large in scope. 

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

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 

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. 

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