What does broadcast mean?
Word: Broadcast
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Broadcast means to send out a programme or message by radio, television or the internet for many people to receive. As a noun, it is a programme sent out in this way.
Synonyms: air, telecast, beam
Antonyms: conceal, suppress
How do you spell broadcast?
Syllables: broad - cast
Tricky part: The 'aw' sound at the start is spelt oa, a spelling few other words use for that sound. The past tense is usually broadcast, the same as the present.
Watch out for: brodcast, braodcast, broadcaste
Memory tip: Think of a boat carrying the news far and wide: boat and broadcast share the same oa.
Broadcast in a sentence
Example 1: All India Radio broadcast the Prime Minister's speech live.
Example 2: The inter-school football final will be broadcast on the local cable channel.
Example 3: Doordarshan began its first broadcasts from Delhi in 1959.
Fun Fact
Long before radio, to broadcast meant to scatter seeds by hand over a wide area of a field, instead of planting them in rows.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Three words in the list are spelt correctly. Choose the meaning of the misspelt word.
1. announcer 2. commentary 3. journalism 4. broadkast
a) to send out a programme on radio or television
b) a spoken description of an event as it happens
c) the work of collecting and writing news
d) a person who introduces programmes or reads news on air
Show answer
a) to send out a programme on radio or television. Journalism, commentary and announcer are all spelt correctly; broadkast has a k where the word has a c.
Word Connection
Choose the word closest in meaning to broadcast as used in the sentence:
The results of the state science quiz were broadcast on community radio so that every village could hear them.
a) delayed
b) recorded
c) transmitted
d) received
Show answer
c) transmitted. Results broadcast on radio are transmitted, sent out over the air; received would mean people heard them, not that they were sent.
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) newspapper
b) broadcast
c) loudspeeker
d) headlien
Show answer
b) broadcast. Only broadcast is spelt right; the others should be headline, newspaper and loudspeaker.
Word Cookie
Fill in the missing letters:
broa_c_st
a) d, u
b) d, e
c) d, a
d) t, a
Show answer
c) d, a. The word is broad joined to cast, so the gaps are the d of broad and the a of cast.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 'The concert will be broadcast live on the radio' means it will be ____.
a) recorded and played next week
b) described in a printed report
c) heard as it happens
d) performed only for the musicians
Show answer
c) heard as it happens
2. A radio station would not normally broadcast ____.
a) a live cricket match from Chennai
b) a private phone call between two friends
c) a news report on the monsoon
d) the evening weather bulletin
Show answer
b) a private phone call between two friends
