(n.) Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
(v. t.) To build.
(n. & v.) See Big, n. & v.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(2) Intestinal macromolecular transmission in young rats of 10, 14, 18, 22 and 30 days of age was measured as the blood serum levels of markers 6 h after oral feeding of a solution containing bovine IgG (BIgG), bovine serum albumin (BSA) and fluorescein-isothiocyanate-labeled dextran 70,000 (FITC-D), either alone (controls) or with soybean trypsin inhibitor (SBTI) or swine colostrum trypsin inhibitor (SCTI).
(3) And had he not escaped and then skipped from continent to continent, Biggs would never have ended up on so many front pages and leading so many bulletins.
(4) Additional examination of the of the patient's plasma specimen using the antibody assay (Biggs-Bidwell-1959) showed the presence of the antibody to the Factor Viii which were active in 1:100 dilution.
(5) Perhaps the most flattering epitaph for Ronnie Biggs, who has died aged 84, was written for him many years ago by the unlikely figure of the former commissioner of the Metropolitan police Sir Robert Mark .
(6) Raimunda and Biggs parted – although they married years later in Belmarsh prison – but Michael became a pop star in Brazil in a band called the Magic Balloon Gang.
(7) Biggs wasn't a cuddly heart of gold cockney character to be feted .
(8) "To use a panel like this is unproductive," Mr Biggs said.
(9) He Biggs first suffered a stroke in 1998 and has been admitted to hospital several times since returning to Britain.
(10) The offical Scotland Yard portrait of Ronnie Biggs, released after h escaped from Wandsworth prison.
(11) The actor Steven Berkoff, who had met Biggs in 1987, when making a film about him that both agreed was "a load of cobblers", praised his "most terrific patter".
(12) The eponym associated with this disorder, is the surname of the first patient examined in detail and reported by Biggs and colleagues in a paper describing the clinical and laboratory features of seven affected individuals.
(13) Biggs communicated using a pointer and alphabet, he said.
(14) Biggs suffered his first stroke in 1998 though he recovered to throw a 70th birthday party.
(15) • Peter Fleming will be in conversation with Joanna Biggs, author of All Day Long, on Wednesday 23 September, 7pm, Sutton House, Homerton High Street, London
(16) To justify their large advance they invented a story that Otto Skorzeny, the man who organised the ex-Nazi escape network Odessa, had financed the robbery, a hoax that Read only learned of when he went to Brazil to interview Biggs.
(17) Also deserving of a long, hard look is the provenance of John Biggs's characterisation as a racist.
(18) In 1966 he was assessor to Lord Mountbatten during his inquiry into prison security – but he harboured a sneaking regard for Ronnie Biggs, the great train robber who escaped from Wandsworth jail in 1965, saying that his flight "added a rare and welcome touch of humour to the history of crime".
(19) "Ronnie Biggs was a violent criminal who evaded justice for decades," tweeted one Tory MEP candidate.
(20) Once the rope-ladder had taken him over the wall from the exercise yard in Wandsworth prison in 1965, Biggs embarked on a lifelong, symbiotic relationship with the media.
Large
Definition:
(superl.) Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to small; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city.
(superl.) Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions.
(superl.) Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse.
(superl.) Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart.
(superl.) Free; unembarrassed.
(superl.) Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language.
(superl.) Prodigal in expending; lavish.
(superl.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.
(adv.) Freely; licentiously.
(n.) A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves.
Example Sentences:
(1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(2) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(3) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(4) These eight large plasmids had indistinguishable EcoRI restriction patterns.
(5) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(6) IT can, therefore, be excluded almost with certainty that the meat would contain such large amounts of hormone residues.
(7) The small units described here could be inhibitory interneurons which convert the excitatory response of large units into inhibition.
(8) These studies, in addition to demonstrating that the placenta contains TRH deamidase activity, suggest that losses of fetal TRH through the placenta are not large.
(9) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(10) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(11) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
(12) One patient with a large fistula angiographically had no oximetric evidence of shunt at cardiac catheterization.
(13) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(14) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(15) Chloroquine induced large cytoplasmic vacuoles, whereas the other drugs (quinacrine, 4,4'-diethylaminoethoxyhexestrol, chlorphentermine, iprindole, 1-chloro-amitriptyline, clomipramine) caused formation of lamellated or crystalloid inclusions as usually seen in drug-induced lipidosis.
(16) The leukemic T-cells in two patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) had specific features of large granular lymphocytes (LGL), and those in two patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) had L2 morphologic characteristics.
(17) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(18) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
(19) The ratios in both groups were also compared with the ratios of a large group of normal subjects evaluated in a population survey.
(20) Our results show that large complex lipid bodies and extensive accumulations of glycogen are valuable indicators of a functionally suppressed chief cell in atrophic parathyroid glands.