(a.) Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immense amounts of data about cancer-associated chromosome aberrations have been collected during the last 10 years, and the systematic evaluation of these data has disclosed a number of correlations between chromosome change and neoplastic disease.
(2) "It's immensely frustrating and I've got to the point now where I can't do internships," he said.
(3) The referendum vote has immense political implications but no direct legal effect.
(4) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
(5) The strain and expense of all these moves has been immense.
(6) These questions are the points of collision of two immensely important spheres of interest in our everyday life.
(7) It's the first in our planet's history where one species - ours - has Earth's future in its hands, and could jeopardise not only itself, but life's immense potential.
(8) I would urge her to follow the example of Elizabeth I, who, on appointing as her chief minister Sir William Cecil, said of him: “This opinion I have of you: that whatever you know my personal opinion to be, you will give me advice that is best for the realm.” Valerie Crews Beckenham, Kent • Another immensely qualified person loses their job for not being optimistic enough about Brexit.
(9) After 14 years of great lovemaking, an erection causes him immense pain and has terminated our sex life.
(10) Despite the "immense challenges" which Yves Mersch cited today , BNP reckons the ECB will have to take unconventional action to fight off weak inflation and to stimulate growth.
(11) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
(12) Immense occupancy and porta hepatis proximity of the cysts were triggers for developing jaundice.
(13) An immensely cerebral man, who trained himself to need only six hours of sleep - believing that a woman should have seven and only a fool eight - Mishcon was not a man given to small talk, nor one who would tolerate prattle for the sake of it.
(14) During the last years of her life, Shearer wrote book reviews (not just of dance books) for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, which were immensely readable though not celebrated for their generosity towards authors.
(15) Global policymakers know well the immense value of forests – so why have development interventions largely failed to harness the positive contributions of forested landscapes?
(16) Thanet suffers from immense shortages of housing and jobs.
(17) The kinds of skills graduates bring can be immensely valuable.
(18) At such levels, public outrage would be immense, but we are prepared to tolerate such risks from the climate because the prospects of catastrophic levels of warming are still regarded by many as remote, the study suggested, and we are poor at calculating risk.
(19) A case is reported in which an immense cranial vault was reduced as part of the rehabilitation of a patient with severe hydrocephalus who had preservation of the intellect.
(20) Meanwhile volumes two and three of The Gulag Archipelago appeared to less public acclaim than volume one, but confirmed the uniqueness and immensity of that vast enterprise.
Jumbo
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
(2) Chief executive Louis Gallois said Beijing's refusal to allow Hong Kong Airlines to complete a $4bn order for the A380 super-jumbos amounted to "retaliation measures" over the policy, which came into force at the beginning of the year.
(3) But normally, shaven-headed and shaven-faced, he could pass for a jumbo-sized Bob Crow .
(4) Jumbo Records in Leeds has been in business for 43 years.
(5) Talked up as "Britain's proudest creation", it was housed in a tent so big and strong that its roof could, apparently, support the weight of a jumbo jet.
(6) Another group of art students is in, and Wilson is giving them a talk, telling them how a jumbo jet crash inspector visited and identified at once that the plane had been crushed deliberately rather than crashed - the sort of technical detail that he appreciates.
(7) Hofland gave the LottoNL-Jumbo team their first victory of the season as he edged out IAM Cycling’s Matteo Pelucchi on the final stretch in the shadow of York racecourse.
(8) He has applied the same philosophy to a series of books that have included such unlikely successes as an account of the life of maverick journalist and Labour politician Tom Driberg, a biography of Marx that has been translated into 25 languages, and a tour d'horizon of contemporary counter-enlightenment thinking, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, that led the charge of books reasserting the primacy of reason.
(9) At Jumbo Records, seven bands will be playing in a pop-up venue put together in a vacant unit next door.
(10) This is better than the Jumbo Jet, which can only fly for 12 h.
(11) She could see a hole that ripped open at the back of the jumbo jet where the bathroom had been and carried her son to safety.
(12) Rolls-Royce, which makes engines for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners and Airbus A380 superjumbos, has been betting on wide-bodied aircraft and by 2020 half the world’s jumbo jets will be powered by its engines.
(13) I always remember the startled look of the platitudinous young vicar who visited our house after my grandad died, when my mum said, "Don't come round here with your mumbo-jumbo.
(14) The world he inadvertently summoned into being persists - in nuclear arsenals, and 747 jumbo jets and B52s, the direct descendants of the Boeing B29.
(15) The high fuel costs and narrow profit margins that characterised much of the previous ten years made an underoccupied jumbo economically unviable, and airlines have taken to scheduling multiple slots on popular routes to meet consumer demand, rather than one big take-off.
(16) Jumbo problems The most interesting part of the whole affair is what it says about all forms of technological regulation in the future.
(17) gets such a massive response they'll need a Jumbo Jet, not a tour bus.
(18) Finally grounded in 2006 after a period flying under the European Aviation banner, parts of this jumbo have been turned into the signature metal tags of the environmental campaign.
(19) Wouldn't it be better to accept it now rather than let this defendant get tangled up in a messy trial for the sake of some legal mumbo-jumbo?"
(20) It comes at the same time as farmers are stepping up exports of live breeding pigs to China, packing up to 900 at a time into a jumbo jet for a 12-hour non-stop flight.