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English Dictionary: big |
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5 results for big |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- big
- adv
- extremely well; "his performance went over big"
- in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening"
Synonym(s): boastfully, vauntingly, big, large
- on a grand scale; "think big"
Antonym(s): small
- in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"
- adj
- above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude
or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"
Synonym(s): large, big Antonym(s): little, small
- significant; "graduation was a big day in his life"
- very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"
Synonym(s): bad, big
- loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"
- conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"
Synonym(s): big, large, prominent
- prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor"
Synonym(s): big(a), heavy(a)
- exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"
Synonym(s): boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising
- feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
Synonym(s): big, swelled, vainglorious
- (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman"
Synonym(s): adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup
- marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"
- generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies"
Synonym(s): big, large, magnanimous
- given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
Synonym(s): big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child"
Synonym(s): big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Big \Big\, Bigg \Bigg\, n. [OE. bif, bigge; akin to Icel. bygg,
Dan. byg, Sw. bjugg.] (Bot.)
Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
[bd]Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley,
now with bigg.[b8] --New English
Dict.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Big \Big\, Bigg \Bigg\, v. t. [OE. biggen, fr. Icel. byggja to
inhabit, to build, b[?]a (neut.) to dwell (active) to make
ready. See {Boor}, and {Bound}.]
To build. [Scot. & North of Eng. Dial.] --Sir W. Scott.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Big \Big\, a. [Compar. {Bigger}; superl. {Biggest}.] [Perh. from
Celtic; cf. W. beichiog, beichiawg, pregnant, with child, fr.
baich burden, Arm. beac'h; or cf. OE. bygly, Icel. biggiligr,
(properly) habitable; (then) magnigicent, excellent, fr. OE.
biggen, Icel. byggja, to dwell, build, akin to E. be.]
1. Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of
great size; large. [bd]He's too big to go in there.[b8]
--Shak.
2. Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth
or produce; -- often figuratively.
[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
--Addison.
3. Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation,
distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a
big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied
to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.
God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. --Jer.
Taylor.
Note: Big is often used in self-explaining compounds; as,
big-boned; big-sounding; big-named; big-voiced.
{To talk big}, to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously.
I talked big to them at first. --De Foe.
Syn: Bulky; large; great; massive; gross.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: |
\big
Prefix of several {LaTeX} commands implying a larger
symbol. See the command without "big". Often used to convert
a {dyadic} operator into a function which operates on a set.
E.g. \sqcup, \bigsqcup.
(1995-02-03)
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