(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.
Gravid
Definition:
(a.) Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sterilization rates at the time of abortions increased with increasing age and with increasing gravidity, but the total rates, adjusted for age and gravidity of patients, have changed little in the past 15 years.
(2) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
(3) The present study, which fails to show augmented synthesis of PGs by renal tissues derived from gravid rats, is consistent with our previous investigation in which cyclooxygenase inhibition did not reduce the gestational increase of renal hemodynamics or restore the attenuated renal pressor responsiveness to exogenous angiotensin II.
(4) The influence of embryos on growth of the uterus was determined by comparing uterine length, weight and diameter between gravid and nongravid horns within unilaterally pregnant gilts.
(5) Lesions associated with Philometroides huronensis in the white sucker (Catostomus commersoni) of southern Ontario occurred during the spring (April-June) and were related to the development and release of first-stage larvae from the gravid nematode.
(6) Gravid uterine oxygen uptake and estrone sulfate release and gravid uterine and uteroplacental lactate output were influenced by the interaction between cow and fetal breed.
(7) The female mice were examined for gravidity 19 days after the onset of the breeding cycle.
(8) Oviposition behavior of infected females is prolonged and mimics that of normal gravid females in their first gonotropic cycle.
(9) Using specific antibody raised against renal renin, we have documented that the majority of the uterine renin-like activity in gravid and nongravid uteri is immunoreactive renin.
(10) Straw meal integration had a gravidity-conditioned influence on the daily N balance.
(11) Ten of these suffered from severe gravidic hyperemesis, while twenty had a physiological pregnancy.
(12) The positivity rate for the circumsporozoite protein (CS) of P. falciparum in blood-fed or gravid An.
(13) No relationship in antibody reactivity to the 3 synthetic peptides of the RESA molecule was observed by gravidity (0, 1, or greater than or equal to 2), age, initial parasite density or response to treatment.
(14) The breeding of mosquito larvae in the field is determined by the ovipositing behaviour of the gravid females.
(15) The following variables were not significantly associated with the onset of premature labor: maternal age, parity, gravidity, diabetic class according to White, presence of renal disease or retinopathy, previous elective abortion, chronic hypertension or pregnancy-induced hypertension, cigarette smoking, first-trimester or post-20 weeks' gestation vaginal bleeding, maternal serum magnesium concentration, or polyhydramnios.
(16) An average of 35% (432 foxes) were infected, mostly with low to medium numbers of gravid worms producing thick-shelled eggs.
(17) It is responsible for gravidic postural shock, and an increased abdominal pressure, exceeding 20 mmHg.
(18) We propose that the species be designated as L. europaensis and we describe the characteristics of the gravid female.
(19) We prospectively randomized and compared outcomes of 62 gravid women with manual (n = 31) or spontaneous (n = 31) placental delivery at cesarean section.
(20) Before such complete system of reproduction control can be used, further studies are required into some fundamental aspects of the problem, including calving control, pregnancy examination, and gravidity hagiene.