What's the difference between abroad and broad?

Abroad


Definition:

  • (adv.) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.
  • (adv.) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad.
  • (adv.) Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad.
  • (adv.) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Between 70 and 80% of human Salmonella infections are contracted abroad, mainly outside the Nordic countries.
  • (2) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
  • (3) NK cells mediate their cytotoxicity against tumor cells through abroad array of cytotoxic and cytostatic proteins.
  • (4) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
  • (5) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
  • (6) British citizens travelling or studying abroad for more than three months are being refused benefits on their return under new rules designed to crackdown on benefit tourism from eastern Europe .
  • (7) Ammoniation of corn, peanuts, cottonseed, and meals to alter the toxic and carcinogenic effects of aflatoxin contamination has been the subject of intense research effort by scientists in various government agencies and universities, both in the United States and abroad.
  • (8) Salinger stayed abroad for five months, mainly in Vienna.
  • (9) Last year more than 4,000 doctors took the first steps towards working abroad.
  • (10) I’ve seen Ukip both at home and abroad, and I’m sorry to say they’re pretty amateur.
  • (11) The Bank cited slower economic growth at home and abroad, especially in the UK's main export markets, as well as problems in the eurozone, and strains on the banking system.
  • (12) She finds indoor activities to discourage the kids from playing outside on the foulest days, and plans holidays abroad as often as possible – but still frets about what their years in Delhi may do to her children’s health.
  • (13) We might have a patient we can’t do anything for and we have to wait for them to die, knowing if they were abroad they could be saved.
  • (14) And there are many others who cannot leave teaching, and so will take their talent abroad, where they are valued much more highly.
  • (15) By encouraging (in effect, subsidising) ever more Britons to holiday abroad, extra runway capacity would probably harm rather than help the balance of payments.
  • (16) Several large-scale, observational epidemiologic studies in the United States and abroad have shown a strong independent inverse relation between HDL and CAD.
  • (17) BNP spokesman Simon Darby, said today that at first glance the list includes some people who are no longer members and some who have moved abroad.
  • (18) She warned that housing benefit caps would make moving to the private rented sector increasingly difficult for those on low incomes, and complained that homes were now allowed to stand empty in London and elsewhere because they had been sold abroad as financial assets.
  • (19) Four of the index cases had recently travelled abroad.
  • (20) Some 59% of voters said the UK's recent entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan had made them more reluctant to support military interventions by UK forces abroad.

Broad


Definition:

  • (superl.) Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
  • (superl.) Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
  • (superl.) Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
  • (superl.) Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.
  • (superl.) Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
  • (superl.) Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
  • (superl.) Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
  • (superl.) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
  • (superl.) Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
  • (superl.) Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
  • (n.) The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
  • (n.) The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
  • (n.) A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
  • (2) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (3) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
  • (4) Accordingly, when bFGF, complexed to heparin, is treated with pepsin A, an aspartic protease with a broad specificity, only the Leu9-Pro10 peptide bond is cleaved generating the 146-amino acid form.
  • (5) A broad specificity of LipDH was observed for the glycine cleavage system.
  • (6) Time-resolved tyrosine fluorescence anisotropy shows global correlation times broadly in agreement with the NMR results, but with an additional faster correlation time [approximately 600 ps].
  • (7) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
  • (8) It was possible to classify the bacteriophages broadly, according to the variety of mutants that were resistant to them.
  • (9) The surface film transition is especially noted in the pressure-area curve of the surfactant and approximates in two dimensions the broad thermotropic phase transition of the bulk phase surfactant.
  • (10) If Clegg's concerns do broadly accord with Cameron's, how will the PM sell such a big U-turn to his increasingly anti-Clegg backbenchers?
  • (11) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
  • (12) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
  • (13) A library of Zymomonas mobilis genomic DNA was constructed in the broad-host-range cosmid pLAFR1.
  • (14) Amphotericin B has a broad spectrum of action that includes most of the major fungal pathogens of man.
  • (15) All other broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintics, regardless of substituent at the 2 position (methyl carbamate or thiazolyl group), are flat.
  • (16) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
  • (17) Learning to do this well involves acquiring a broad base of knowledge and a complex range of skills.
  • (18) The narrow latency window contained significantly more responses than could be explained by the spontaneous activity rate, but this was not true for the added time permitted by the broad window.
  • (19) Taxol has been demonstrated in numerous laboratories worldwide to have broad-spectrum antitumor activity against many tumor models.
  • (20) This strain of the organism fits a pattern of susceptibility that is rare among N asteroides isolates in general and has been called the type 5 pattern, described as a resistance to broad spectrum cephalosporins, ciprofloxacin, and all aminoglycosides except amikacin.