(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.
Vig
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As a social worker I think that Vig has developed my skills in communication and reflective practice as well as developing my confidence.
(2) Previously it was shown that macrophages (M phi) isolated from the vigorous (Vig) or modulated (Mod) liver granulomas (Gr) of Schistosoma mansoni-infected mice restored mitogen and parasite egg antigen-induced proliferative responses to accessory cell-depleted lymphocytes.
(3) Open Mon-Fri for lunch and dinner, closes Mon-Thurs 10pm, Fri-Sat 11pm The Vig (Arcadia) Further east, Camelback Road edges the Arcadia neighbourhood, where thirtysomethings have been busy rehabbing houses on 1950s and 1960s developments and transforming them into retro-cool mid-century digs.
(4) I immediately began to see the benefits to families through using Vig, which requires practitioners to undertake 18 months of supervised practice to reach accreditation.
(5) Only few of the tested compounds (IIIg), (IIIh), (IVf), (IVh), (Vg), (Vh), (VIg) showed a fairly good activity against P. irregulare, whereas no compounds exhibited any activity in the in vivo tests (in the preventive phase).
(6) On the contrary, suppression on intra-uterine life may be considered as legal within the framework of the law on VIG (voluntary interruption of pregnancy), as no date-limit is provided for therapeutic interruption of pregnancy.
(7) Post-vaccinial encephalitis, while frequently serious, has not been shown to be ameliorated by VIG therapy, although there are data which suggest VIG has some value in prophylaxis for encephalitis.
(8) Although freshly isolated Vig or ModGrM phi contained preformed SF and PRF, in vitro production of the factors were depressed by protein synthesis inhibitors.
(9) There are now VIG supervisors in most cities across the UK.
(10) From January to September 1987, 271 cases of VIG before the 90th day of amenorrhea, 2 cases of VIG after the 90th day of amenorrhea, and 3 cases of intrauterine fetal death were operated at Vercelli Midwifery School.
(11) The Monastery: Mr Vig and the Nun An award-winning film about a millionaire who wants to establish a Russian Orthodox religious order in his castle.
(12) Vaccinia hyperimmune globulin (VIG) in prophylactic dosage may be given to a pregnant woman who is traveling to a smallpox infected or endemic area in order to prevent fetal vaccinia.
(13) The samples also were assayed with the soybean mitotic crossing-over assay [Vig, 1975].
(14) One of these ways was through video interaction guidance (Vig) , which can support parents to have better, more attuned relationships with their children and in their other relationships in the family.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Outgoing CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp Thomas Kirk Kristiansen, great grandson of Lego’s founder, will become deputy chair of the new brand group.
(16) Other Vig practitioners who have also been involved in research studies have seen clear results from practice-based research.
(17) These chromosomes, unlike multicentrics in mouse (Vig and Zinkowski 1986) do not show premature centromere separation.
(18) Compounds (VIIa) and (VIIe) were selectively deacetylated yielding (VIIb) and (VIId); these were then oxidized and hydrolyzed to convert them into (VIf) and (VIg).
(19) Recent research by Dr Maria Doria highlights the following elements as being important in the process of Vig to bringing about change: • Self-reflection.
(20) Freshly isolated Vig or ModGrM phi contained preformed LAF, although its in vitro production was depressed by protein synthesis inhibitors.