shut vs wide

shut

noun
  • The act or time of shutting; close. 

  • The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together. 

  • A door or cover; a shutter. 

  • A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets. 

verb
  • To confine in an enclosed area. 

  • To catch or snag in the act of shutting something. 

  • To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. 

  • To close, to stop being open. 

  • To close, to stop from being open. 

  • To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed. 

adj
  • Closed; not open. 

wide

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 

adj
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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