Difference between Wide and Sweeping

What is the difference between Wide and Sweeping?

Wide as an adjective is having a large physical extent from side to side. while Sweeping as an adjective is wide, broad, affecting many things

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: extensively completely away 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: A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Sweeping

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An instance of sweeping.The activity of sweeping.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: wide, broad, affecting many thingsCompletely overwhelming

Example sentence: Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets.

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

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