(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.
Tremendous
Definition:
(a.) Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.
Example Sentences:
(1) John Large, a leading nuclear consultant, said: "The HSE as an independent agency will come under tremendous pressure to push through these designs.
(2) In the last few years, the tremendous growth of clinical transplantations has greatly increased the need for grafts.
(3) Unfortunately, it probably won’t happen with many countries … But if we can have a great relationship with Russia, and China, and all countries, I’m all for that, that would be a tremendous asset.
(4) A decrease in EAA with both the GABA receptor agonist and antagonist and tremendous increase of EAA with the gabamimetic drug, EOS, showed that GABA receptors may not be directly involved in EAA.
(5) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
(6) Therefore, reducing the prevalence of smoking in adults from about 40% in 1964 to 29% in 1987 can be considered a tremendous public health achievement.
(7) Ana Nicholls, healthcare analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said: “It is tremendous news that GSK’s long-awaited malaria vaccine has gained approval in Europe.
(8) Specifically, tremendous torques are generated by each of these devices when they are introduced into the coil of a magnetic resonance imager; in addition, the 3M products not only were noted to induce an electrical current, but also were significantly magnetized and rendered afunctional.
(9) During hypoxia of 30 to 90 min duration, induced by nitrogenization of the perfusate, action potential duration (APD) was tremendously decreased in association with decline in the amplitude and rising velocity.
(10) "He had tremendous autonomy which he used to build up his network, and he used the corruption of the state to further his goals."
(11) When Trump described her father as a “tremendous champion of supporting families”, there were boos and hisses.
(12) "These results," said Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, "represent a tremendous reduction in human suffering and are a clear validation of the approach embodied in the MDGs.
(13) Scott Chambliss (production designer) Since the first film all of us had done different projects, and we all came back with this tremendous appreciation for JJ and collaborating with each other.
(14) In the course of the last two years, a tremendous amount of controversy has been raised over dangers accompanying the use of the antibiotic clindamycin.
(15) Evidence is mounting which indicates substantial conservation of protein structure and function of these receptors and enzymes over these tremendous periods of time.
(16) If their career expectations are to be met the tremendous improvements made in some practices must be extended rapidly to the remainder.
(17) In parts of Northern Ireland, where Irish was effectively banned until the early 1990s, I found a tremendous resurgence taking place.
(18) Assuming it ends without Trump being elected, we have to use this as an opportunity to question a lot of assumptions that vast numbers of people had accepted and he has proved are not true.” If Trump does lose the election, as opinion polls strongly suggest, there will tremendous relief for Schwartz.
(19) 'The real sense of '68 was a tremendous sense of liberation, of freedom,' she says, 'of people talking on the street, in the universities, in theatres.
(20) In case the tidal volume was kept constant, increase of ventilatory rate resulted in a tremendous increase of lung volume, together with considerably higher levels of PEE.