(superl.) Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.
(superl.) Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.
(superl.) 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.
(n.) Alt. of Bigg
(v. t.) Alt. of Bigg
Example Sentences:
(1) That's why the big dreams have come from the smaller candidates such as the radical left's Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
(2) A dedicated goal makes a big difference in mobilising action and resources.
(3) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
(4) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
(5) When faced with a big dilemma, the time-honoured tradition of politicians is to order an inquiry, and that is what Browne expects.
(6) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
(7) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(8) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
(9) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(10) It could provoke the gravest risk, that all three rating agencies declare a credit event and then there are big contagion risks for other countries," he said.
(11) If Clegg's concerns do broadly accord with Cameron's, how will the PM sell such a big U-turn to his increasingly anti-Clegg backbenchers?
(12) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(13) Without that, and without undertaking big changes, the service's future may fall into doubt, he says.
(14) "They couldn't understand until I said 'No, because I'm a big shot now, because I am in Wild Wild West and I have, like, 10 covers coming out, and I want a bigger part.'
(15) For the past six years, a big focus of my work has been bringing the first schools to some of the remotest parts of northern Sierra Leone .
(16) The Treasury said: "Britain has been at the forefront of global reforms to make banking more responsible, including big reductions in upfront cash bonuses and linking rewards to long-term success.
(17) One of the big sticking points is cash – with rich countries so far failing to live up to promise to mobilise $100bn a year by 2020 for climate finance .
(18) Reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with radioimmunoassay revealed that the major component of ir-endothelin corresponds to standard endothelin-1 (1-21) and the major component of ir-big endothelin corresponds to standard big endothelin (porcine, 1-39).
(19) That clearly will have a big impact on the way people relate to each other and form bonds over the coming generations.
(20) It takes more than a statistical read out and the return of big bank bonuses for a real recovery," he said.
Cig
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In cervical carcinoma, CIG increased at in Ib, II and cervical carcinoma.
(2) Cells and lymphokines which control the initial stages of B cell activation and differentiation have been extensively investigated but little is known at present about the regulation of the progression from cIg+B blasts to fully differentiated plasma cells.
(3) Besides non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, paraffin sections of 87 biopsies from Hodgkin's disease were investigated for CIg in Hodgkin's and Sternberg-Reed cells.
(4) Since CIg can be concentrated in cryoprecipitate, it was utilized as a readily available source of opsonic alpha(2)SB glycoprotein for replacement therapy after injury with documented hypoopsonemia.
(5) However, in parallel with the changes in the sIg isotypes, treatment with IFN did not induce the appearance of cIg nor did the staining patterns for moAb to CD5, CD19, CD20, and CD22 antigens indicate the induction of terminal maturation.
(6) In contrast, in the regions other than the magnum and the isthmus, these three types of cIg were fewer in number.
(7) The predictive power of mean blood pressure (MBP), of serum cholesterol (CHOL), of cigarette consumption (CIG) and of age (AGE) was evaluated by the multiple logistic model.
(8) Third, when CIG was preincubated with fibrous collagen, the platelet-collagen interaction was inhibited.
(9) SFA was found to be concentrated in the cryoprecipitate fraction of human plasma and was copurified with the cold insoluble globulin (CIG) with procedures published for the purification of the latter component.
(10) Discordance was usually attributable to selective loss of large neoplastic cells in flow cytometry specimens or absent expression of SIg by some cytoplasmic Ig (CIg+) lymphomas.
(11) A fetal and adult plasma protein known as the cold-insoluble globulin (CIg) of plasma has been identified in amniotic fluid.
(12) Asplenic animals receiving GIG lived 28.5 hours vs. 49.6 hours for those receiving CIG (p less than 0.0001).
(13) Cell attachment to native collagen substrata occurred in the absence of CIG just as fast as attachment to dried collagen or gelatin substrata occurred in the presence of CIG.
(14) The attachment of cells to collagen has been reported previously to require the presence of serum and the particular serum protein involved in this process, variously known as CIG, CAP or fibronectin, has been isolated.
(15) We should not do anything that makes e-cigs harder to obtain than tobacco cigarettes."
(16) Since CIg is concentrated in cryoprecipitate, this blood component was used as a readily available source of opsonic protein for replacement studies.
(17) Gel filtration and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the immunoprecipitate indicated that it contained a single protein species whose molecular weight was consistent with that of CIG isolated from plasma.
(18) Dual-parameter flow cytometric analysis of monotypic cytoplasmic immunoglobulin (CIg) and DNA content on 15 myeloma marrows allowed S-phase determination of the CIg(+) tumor separately from the CIg(-) hematopoietic cell pool.
(19) Cultured human adult endothelial cells adhere most effectively to prosthetic surfaces precoated with CIG or gelatin, and remain attached following exposure to shear forces.
(20) Intracytoplasmic immunoglobulins (cIg) were positive in the three cases where they were found.