Broadly
['brɔːdlɪ] or ['brɔdli]
Definition
(adv.) without regard to specific details or exceptions; 'he interprets the law broadly'.
(adv.) in a wide fashion; 'he smiled broadly'.
Editor: Nancy--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a broad manner.
Typist: Nathaniel
Examples
- Research has shown, however, that the latch was not broadly new with Hibbert, as it appeared in the French patent to Jeandeau, No. 1,900, of April 25, 1806. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Thus, broadly, the manufacturing end of the problem of introduction was cared for. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Broadly speaking, plants furnish the carbohydrates, that is, starch and sugar; animals furnish the fats and proteids. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This covered broadly the combination of the cutting cylinders, and rolls for holding the boards against the cutting cylinders, and also means for tongueing and grooving at one operation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The term _rotary_, broadly speaking, includes turbine and centrifugal pumps. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The King noticed this, and smiled broadly at the Englishman's want of dexterity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This principle has been broadly confessed by some naturalists to be the true one; and by none more clearly than by that excellent botanist, Aug. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It may be stated as broadly true that Edison engineered to handle immense masses of stuff automatically, while his predecessors aimed chiefly at close separation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Waldemar Fitzurse was rather offended than pleased at the Prince stating thus broadly an opinion, that his daughter had been slighted. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Stated thus broadly, the formula may appear abstract. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Democratic society is peculiarly dependent for its maintenance upon the use in forming a course of study of criteria which are broadly human. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Photo-engravings, broadly speaking, are divided into two classes--line engravings and halftones. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There is--I repeat it--a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Woodbury, No. 138,462, April 20, 1873, covering broadly a rotary cutter head combined with a yielding pressure bar to hold the board against the lifting action of the cutter head. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Nathaniel