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English Dictionary: ample	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for ample
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ample adj more than enough in size or scope or capacity; "had ample food for the party"; "an ample supply" Antonym(s): meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply" Synonym(s): ample, copious, plenteous, plentiful, rich fairly large; "a sizable fortune"; "an ample waistline"; "of ample proportions" Synonym(s): ample, sizable, sizeable
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ample \Am"ple\, a. [F. ample, L. amplus, prob. for ambiplus full on both sides, the last syllable akin to L. plenus full. See {Full}, and cf. {Double}.] Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. --Spenser. 2. Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice. 3. Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative. --Johnson. Syn: Full; spacious; extensive; wide; capacious; abundant; plentiful; plenteous; copious; bountiful; rich; liberal; munificent. Usage: {Ample}, {Copious}, {Abundant}, {Plenteous}. These words agree in representing a thing as large, but under different relations, according to the image which is used. Ample implies largeness, producing a sufficiency or fullness of supply for every want; as, ample stores or resources, ample provision. Copious carries with it the idea of flow, or of collection at a single point; as, a copious supply of materials. [bd]Copious matter of my song.[b8] --Milton. Abundant and plenteous refer to largeness of quantity; as, abundant stores; plenteous harvests.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
AMPLE A {FORTH}-like language for programming the 500/5000 series of add-on music synthesisers for the {BBC Microcomputer}. AMPLE was produced by Hybrid Technologies, Cambridge, England in the mid 1980s. Many AMPLE programs were published in Acorn User magazine. (1995-11-01)