broadside — English Dictionary

Noun

1. One side of a ship above the waterline.

2. All the guns on one side of a warship.

3. The simultaneous firing of these guns.

   Examples

   Broadside! What fools to face our guns!

4. A forceful attack, whether written or spoken.

   Usage

   • broadly

   Examples

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   Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order.

   Fernández's diplomatic broadside follows the British government's decision last month to name a large frozen chunk of Antarctica after the Queen – a gesture viewed in Buenos Aires as provocative.

   He delivered a broadside to the RMT leadership, saying: "This response to a significantly enhanced offer exposes their true priority - using the British public and NR workers as pawns in a fight with the Government.

5. A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.

6. The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.

Adverb

1. Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   [...] the slight fluctuations [in speed] were due to a strong side-wind, which caught the train broadside along exposed stretches of the line.

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   1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure They were going some 60-80 mph [on a motorcycle] down a 30 mph street, hit a car broadside & Pat pushed against Bert, who was crushed into the side of the car.

Verb

1. To collide with something side-on.

   Usage

   • Transitive

Adjective

1. toward a full side

   Examples

   a broadside attack

Noun

1. an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution

   Synonyms

   circularhandbillbillbroadsheetflierflyerthrowaway

   Broader terms

   adadvertisementadvertizementadvertisingadvertizingadvert

   Examples

   he mailed the circular to all subscribers

2. a speech of violent denunciation

   Synonyms

   tiradephilippic

   Broader terms

   denunciationdenouncementdeclamation

3. all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship

   Broader terms

   armament

4. the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern

   Broader terms

   side

   Examples

   the ship was broadside to the dock

5. the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship

   Broader terms

   firefiring

Adverb

1. with a side facing an object

   Examples

   the train hit the truck broadside

   the wave caught the canoe broadside and capsized it

Verb

1. collide with the broad side of

   Broader terms

   hitstrikeimpinge onrun intocollide with

   Examples

   her car broad-sided mine