What's the difference between wide and wive?

Wide


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry.
  • (superl.) Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference.
  • (superl.) Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding.
  • (superl.) Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide.
  • (superl.) Remote; distant; far.
  • (superl.) Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like.
  • (superl.) On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
  • (superl.) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; -- opposed to primary as used by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr. Sweet. The effect, as explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the relaxation or tension of the pharynx; as explained by Mr. Sweet and others, it is due to the action of the tongue. The wide of / (/ve) is / (/ll); of a (ate) is / (/nd), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13-15.
  • (adv.) To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide.
  • (adv.) So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
  • (adv.) So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose; aside; astray.
  • (n.) That which is wide; wide space; width; extent.
  • (n.) That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
  • (2) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
  • (3) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
  • (4) Although antihistamines are widely used for symptomatic treatment of seasonal (allergic) rhinitis, the role of histamines in the pathogenesis of infectious rhinitis is not clear.
  • (5) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
  • (6) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (7) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (8) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
  • (9) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
  • (10) There are no oceans wide enough to stop us from dreaming.
  • (11) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
  • (12) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
  • (13) I wish to clarify that for the period 1998 to 2002 I was employed by Fifa to work on a wide range of matters relating to football,” Platini wrote.
  • (14) Label was found widely distributed among all the organs except the nervous system and its rate of disappearance from the tissues paralleled its disappearance from the circulation.
  • (15) Widely varying numbers of endocrine cells were identified in 12 out of 64 cases of uterine cancer in the course of histochemical and electron microscopic examination.
  • (16) These sera were derived from children with a wide range of tumor types.
  • (17) The results, together with the known geometry of the enzyme, indicate that active site probes in the dodecamer are widely separated and that energy transfer occurs from a single donor to two or three acceptors on adjacent subunits.
  • (18) We therefore conclude that widely spaced (and unknown) parts of the protein chain are required for the intersubunit interactions that eventually lead to functional assembly of the receptor.
  • (19) Plasma renin activities (PRA) and aldosterone concentrations increased in parallel over a wide range of plasma volume deficits produced in unanesthetized rats by extravascular administration of polyethylene glycol (PEG) solution.
  • (20) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.

Wive


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
  • (v. t.) To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.
  • (v. t.) To take for a wife; to marry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
  • (2) Semen quality was improved in 70 per cent, and 53 per cent of the wives became pregnant.
  • (3) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
  • (4) Emphasis was placed on the wives who ranked low on the preventive health orientation continuum, since it is people like these who are of most concern to health educators and health care providers.
  • (5) However, the wives of men with no dependent children consulted at a significantly higher rate than the wives of men with dependent children in the period when their husbands faced and then underwent job-loss.
  • (6) Other results indicated that there was a relatively low response concordance between husbands and wives, and that couples who had pregnancies with the method or had abandoned the method had more liberal sexual attitudes than those who did not have pregnancies and continued the method.
  • (7) Equally important however, even among better educated urban wives, breastfeeding continues longer than is typical of western countries.
  • (8) Attention is given to reasons for limited discussion of work events with wives and for the control of emotion and its expression.
  • (9) Of 225 patients followed, 52% rebounded to fertile levels followed by pregnancy in the wives of 25%.
  • (10) • Detainees’ families have suffered further persecution: for example, the wives of Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang and Xie Yanyi have been subjected to police monitoring and harassment; the children of Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang have been denied enrolment at state schools due to police pressure; and the authorities have put pressure on the landlords of Wang Quanzhang’s and Xie Yanyi’s families to evict them from their homes.
  • (11) The electorate is furious - from members getting wives, partners and relatives on the parliamentary payroll to expense claims for duck houses, flipping and servants quarters."
  • (12) The study showed also that 69.8% of the mothers were "common-law wives", 13.2% were married and 16.9% were single.
  • (13) To evaluate the risk of heterosexual transmission of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, lymphadenopathy, and infection with human T-lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III), we studied 42 hemophiliacs and their wives.
  • (14) It was to keep men more committed and less likely to abandon their wives and children – and I doubt that we have become so flawless that this no longer matters,” he said – as part of an explanation as to why marriage is not necessary for same-sex couples to express their love, or the “fidelity and permanence” of their relationship.
  • (15) Crossed in vitro sperm-cervical mucus penetration test, evaluated in 277 couples with CM of patients' wives and additionally with CM and semen of fertile donors, revealed that the male factor contributed to a significantly higher extent to deficient sperm-mucus interaction than the cervical factor.
  • (16) A questionnaire was given in 1989 by male interviewers to 106 husbands whose wives indicated were opposed to FP or religious grounds.
  • (17) The 1985 Jordan Husband's Fertility Survey (JHFS) was established to analyze husband's attitudes to birth spacing, breastfeeding, and family planning; compare husband's attitudes to family planning to their wives' attitudes; and to analyze husband's contraceptive usage.
  • (18) In all these cases the husbands' jealousy adversely influenced their wives' response to treatment, and improvement in wives was associated with increased morbidity in their husbands.
  • (19) Wives of male survivors had no apparent excess risk for problem pregnancies.
  • (20) 7) After urethroplasty, two patients married and their wives became pregnant.