Difference between Fanlike and Wide

What is the difference between Fanlike and Wide?

Fanlike as an adjective is resembling a fan (hand-held cooling device). while Wide as an adjective is having a large physical extent from side to side.

Fanlike

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Resembling a fan (hand-held cooling device).

Wide

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a large physical extent from side to side.Large in scope.Operating at the side of the playing area.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: extensivelycompletelyaway from a given goal

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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

Example sentence: And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

We hope you now know whether to use Fanlike or Wide in your sentence.

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