broadcast

To send a programme, message, or signal electronically so many people can receive it.

• They broadcast the match live.
• This station broadcasts news every hour.
• The speech was broadcast across the country yesterday.

How to use it: broadcast something on something (They broadcast the concert on the radio.); broadcast from somewhere (The station broadcasts from a small coastal town.)

Similar words: transmit, air, send

Common phrases: broadcast live, broadcast a programme, broadcast on television

To tell many people something, especially information that might be private.

• Please do not broadcast my secret.
• He broadcast the news to everyone at work.
• She broadcasts every little success on social media.

Similar words: announce, publicize, spread

Opposites: conceal

Common phrases: broadcast a secret, broadcast something widely, broadcast the news

To speak, present, or perform on a radio or television programme.

• She broadcasts regularly on television.
• He first broadcast as a guest expert.
• Have you ever broadcast from a busy railway station?

How to use it: broadcast on something (She broadcasts on local radio every Friday.); broadcast from somewhere (He is broadcasting from the concert hall tonight.)

Similar words: appear on air

Common phrases: broadcast on radio, broadcast from somewhere, broadcast regularly

To spread seeds over a wide area of ground.

• Broadcast the seeds over the soil.
• We broadcast grass seed across the bare ground.
• Farmers once broadcast grain by hand.

Similar words: scatter, sow

Common phrases: broadcast grass seed, broadcast seeds, broadcast by hand

A programme sent by radio or television for people to hear or watch.

• We watched the broadcast together.
• The radio broadcast began at six.
• Did you hear yesterday’s news broadcast?

Similar words: programme, show

Common phrases: live broadcast, radio broadcast, news broadcast, national broadcast

Sent electronically so that many people can hear or see it.

• The broadcast signal was weak.
• We compared the recorded and broadcast versions.
• Broadcast messages reached homes across the region.

Similar words: transmitted

Common phrases: broadcast signal, broadcast programme, broadcast message

Spread across a wide area instead of placed in neat rows.

• The broadcast seed covered the field.
• Broadcast sowing is useful for planting grass.
• Rain washed some broadcast grain off the slope.

Similar words: scattered, widely spread

Common phrases: broadcast seed, broadcast sowing, broadcast planting