'Big : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: 'Big	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for 'Big
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.
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.
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.
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)