(superl.) Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.
(superl.) Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude, series, etc.
(superl.) Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval.
(superl.) Superior; admirable; commanding; -- applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
(superl.) Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc.
(superl.) Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distingushed; foremost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc.
(superl.) Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth, or principle.
(superl.) Pregnant; big (with young).
(superl.) More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree; as, to use great caution; to be in great pain.
(superl.) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc.
(n.) The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(2) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(3) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(4) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(5) Subtypes of HBs Ag are already of great use in the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infections; yet they may have additional significance.
(6) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(7) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
(8) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
(9) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(10) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
(11) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
(12) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(13) It’s great to observe the beach from that perspective.
(14) The dose response effect in this tumor is steep and combinations which compromise the dose of adriamycin too greatly are showing inferior results.
(15) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(16) = 19) with a very low, but statistically significant, correlation with the AUC, r = 0.35 (p less than 0.05), thus demonstrating a very great individual variation in sensitivity to cimetidine.
(17) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
(18) Transfection of the treated DNA into SOS-induced spheroplasts results in an increase in mutagenesis as great as 50-fold.
(19) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
(20) We conclude that inflammatory lesions at these sites are not uncommon and that CT scans are diagnostic in the great majority.
Mega
Definition:
() Alt. of Megalo-
Example Sentences:
(1) These results are discussed in the light of previous evidence suggesting the presence of several oxidases and a branched electron transport system in T. mega.
(2) In April last year, thousands of Christians in Wenzhou – a nearby city known as “China’s Jerusalem” – tried to save their mega-church from demolition by forming a human shield around the building.
(3) The latest title in the mega-selling military shooter series is set in a distopian near-future where a private military contractor has turned against the US and started a war against its old employer.
(4) That's what CDC has to do if it is going to justify its investments in houses and shops for the mega-wealthy, and it won't be easy.
(5) But critics see that happy, hippyish public image as a potential trojan horse for a mega-powerful industry hellbent on pursuing its self-interest.
(6) The authors compare their results with those taken from international literature: microcolon with reflux into mega-ileum (2 out of 6 cases) appears to be the most suggestive X-ray finding for total colonic aganglionosis.
(7) I-A k purified from cell membranes using MEGA 8 and MEGA 9 detergent mixtures and acid elution from 10.3.6.2 Sepharose was efficiently labeled by IASA-46-61.
(8) As with Mega, Dotcom is not actually running Baboom himself: its chief executive is media and entertainment lawyer Grant Edmundson.
(9) We residents are paying a very high price for these mega-events,” he says.
(10) Australia is already the globe’s biggest coal exporter and “mega-mine” plans in Queensland for more extraction are identified as the world’s second biggest “ carbon bomb ” threatening runaway global warming.
(11) The failure rate was reduced to 5.8% when a single injection of 2.4 mega units of procaine penicillin was given.
(12) The Labour MP Frank Field , chair of the work and pensions committee, whose role in the MPs’ inquiry into the collapse of BHS has put him into the role of Green’s nemesis, said the businessman appeared willing to lose his reputation rather than “surrender a modest part of his mega-fortune” to aid BHS pensioners.
(13) Although we argue a deal is on the cards, we do not believe it will be a mega-merger.
(14) MEGA-9 is clearly different from octyl glucoside, despite its chemical similarity, in terms of its temperature sensitivity and vesicle forming characteristics.
(15) The Indian mining giant Adani has rejected a report that found its proposed Carmichael mega-mine in Queensland was financially unviable.
(16) Unfortunately for Ban, however, his leadership at the UN is indelibly associated with precisely the kind of diplomatic dysfunction put on display at such mega-conferences.
(17) So what they do: the apps connect with Mega in the back-end, for storage," he said.
(18) Imran Khan, cricket star turned politician, hoping to pull off the unlikely coup of going from zero seats in parliament to enough to lead the next government, is banking heavily on young people who flock to his mega rallies .
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hick's team first identified the existence of the Bili chimps in 2007 but their new survey, published this week in the journal Biological Conservation , reveals a vast, thriving mega-culture.
(20) To watch more videos in this series please click here From there, we head south into the countryside where the mega-highways give way first to single-lane roads through rolling hills and then, steeper slopes of eucalyptus plantations.