Big : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Big	by the DICT Development Group
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)
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)