(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.
Largo
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Slow or slowly; -- more so than adagio; next in slowness to grave, which is also weighty and solemn.
(n.) A movement or piece in largo time.
Example Sentences:
(1) By contrast, the Largo and Texas GB strains displayed more differences in the pattern of RNA fragment migration than other strain comparisons.
(2) The quartet wrestles its way to the end of Shostakovich's unquiet masterpiece, the reprised Largo with its complex contrition and very adult fears.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest En 2012, sólo el 33% de los niños de entre 10 y 14 años dijeron haber hecho cualquier tipo de ejercicio significativo a lo largo del año anterior.
(4) But as introspective anguish in the opening Largo twists suddenly into a turbulent, rushing allegro molto, Christy and Chloe turn their faces away from the stage and stare at each other, startled and wide-eyed, as if to say: "Did you hear that ?
(5) Baixo Gago is behind the Largo do Machado and a short walk from the train station that takes visitors up to the Christ the Redeemer statue.
(6) En 2012, sólo el 33% de los niños de entre 10 y14 años declararon haber practicado algún tipo de deporte – por ejemplo, el baile, o deportes como básquetbol o fútbol - a lo largo del año anterior, mientras que el 74% de los niños dijeron ver una pantalla más de tres horas al día entre semana.
(7) Through comparing the morphological evolution to the host range and the geographical distribution we can suggest Dipetalonema sensu-largo may be interpreted as a gondwanian lineage which may have evolved after the three main austral continents drifted apart.
(8) Leishmanin skin testing of a sample of 154 people residents in Pedra do Largo showed prevalence of Leishmania infection in 25.5%.
(9) --the instrumental sequence using Largo drills to prepare a canal, presents two types of drawbacks: * Excessive abrasion of the convex (internal) wall of the canal system.
(10) • Largo da Matriz Nossa Senhora do Ó, 168, +55 11 3932 4818, frangobar.com.br Astronete, Consolação Like most hot spots in Sampa's edgiest nightlife district (Baixo Augusta), funky Astronete caters to alt-leaning crowds dissected into diverse subcultures mingling in sweet counterculture harmony.
(11) Half of the chickens were challenged with the Largo isolate of velogenic viscerotropic (VV) NDV at 8 weeks post-vaccination, and the remainder were challenged with the Massachusetts 41 strain IBV at 9 weeks post-vaccination.
(12) To evaluate weight, length and head circumference the neonatal standards of Largo et al.
(13) The moist wound products included in this study were a hydrogel (Intrasite Gel) and a foam wound cavity filler (Allevyn), manufactured by Smith & Nephew United, Inc. of Largo, FL, and a transparent cover (Bioclusive), manufactured by Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc. of Arlington, TX.
(14) Colonies of the elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata), possessing raised, whitened, irregularly shaped skeletal protuberances, were discovered at Carysfort Reef and Grecian Rocks, Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary, Key Largo, FL.
(15) Randy and Susan Shasteen, from Key Largo, Florida, but traveling on holiday, said it was “too early to give up” and felt Bush had been too polite in his exchange with Rubio.
(16) 2, infection of NDV vaccinates and nonvaccinates with NDV strain Largo; and Expt.
(17) In Rome, where for several decades he kept an apartment overlooking the Largo Argentina, he wrote Julian (1964), a bestselling novel about the enigmatic Roman emperor who rejected Christianity and embraced paganism.
(18) They serve this Portuguese pot au feu at Tony’s (around €20pp plus wine, Largo da Igreja), where portions are big enough to floor a hungry hobbit.
(19) The purified RNA from three velogenic strains of Newcastle disease virus (Ca-1083 [Fontana], Largo, and Texas GB) was analyzed by oligonucleotide fingerprinting.
(20) Based on this analysis, the fingerprints of the Largo and Ca-1083 viscerotropic strains were more similar to each other than either virus was to the Texas GB neurotropic strain.