lot
IPA: ɫˈɑt
noun
- A large quantity or number; a great deal.
- A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
- (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
- A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
- That which happens without human design or forethought.
- Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
- The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
- A prize in a lottery.
- Allotment; lottery.
- (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
- (historical) An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
- A nephew of Abraham in the Bible and Quran.
- A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin; rare today.
- One of the departments of Occitanie, France, formerly in Midi-Pyrénées. Capital: Cahors (INSEE code 46)
verb
- (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
- (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).
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Examples of "lot" in Sentences
- I'm a lot more sympathetic to the expediency argument.
- He becomes a lot more vigilant towards the end of the film.
- The latter is a lot more dogmatic and extreme than the latter.
- It may be a lot more fragile and febrile than one might think.
- Bale and Amy share a lot of gossips and a lot of misadventures.
- She said I smiled a lot more and used my hands more to gesticulate.
- A lot of the more sophisticated adult bullies may in fact be sociopaths.
- I was convinced that article was a lot more slapdash than my other big works.
- The obese male in the obesity article is a lot more straightforward and honest.
- One has to have a little panache, be a little different and a lot more exiting.
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