(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.
Outsize
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In an era in which political parties have lost their automatic hold on their constituency, a small cadre can exert an outsized influence – which is why both Kevin Rudd and John Howard took part in an ACL-sponsored form in 2007.
(2) Though it has a relatively small readership, with around 104,000 print and digital subscribers by the end of 2014, it retained an outsize influence for its coverage of the mainland and willingness to broach controversial topics such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.
(3) New breed of Republicans compete to take on Clinton Read more A caucus vote in his favor would boost his chances in the free-for-all of the Republican primary, in which every extra vote could provide an outsized advantage.
(4) There is no law that prevents banks from making stupid loans or taking outsize risks with taxpayer money.If another big bank stumbles and threatens the economy, it's hard to picture Uncle Sam backing away with no taxpayer involvement.
(5) The models' hair was styled into outsize saucers, their lashes and brows powdered white; they wore Black Watch tartan and scowled as they stomped.
(6) Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) were tested at 24 months of age after having experienced an outdoor desert environment for one hour each month after weaning, or at 8 months of age after being reared from birth in outsize cages in the laboratory.
(7) Terrorism has long been a tactic, but modern technology allows a few small men with outsized rage to murder innocents on a horrific scale.
(8) The 32% Denton doesn’t own is held by employees: “If it wasn’t for my outsize stake you could look at this as being a workers’ collective.” (The company has just unionised, the first big online media company to do so.)
(9) On its own, it is t he seventh largest economy in Africa, and a locus of ingenuity and creativity with outsized influence on the image of its host country and continent.
(10) Morrissey got his tops from Evans outsize shop; in 1983, to wear a woman's top and beads was just out there.
(11) Unsurprisingly, it has a diabetes problem as outsized as its residents’ waistlines.
(12) For a while, the “Louisville Lip”, blessed with outsized charisma and wit, was possibly the most famous person on the planet.
(13) The MEP rode into parliament on the back of Korwin-Mikke’s outsize personality, and although he may take a slightly more moderate public stance, has never attempted to distance himself from his leader’s views.
(14) Experts say the relationship that matters most to the US is with Yemen’s “deep state” – the security and intelligence forces that wield outsize power and influence in many repressive countries.
(15) "There were early signs that global growth was weakening, and an unexpected increase in interest rates when real wages were not yet rising could lead to an outsized reaction in asset prices and destabilise the recovery."
(16) The commission says competition between banks is dampened by the current structure of the market, which means there are a just a few big banks, with one (Lloyds) with "an outsized position in personal banking".
(17) Trouser-tearing PJ Proby’s profile was elevated monstrously – with all of three top 10 hits to his name, Proby was given a whole chapter in Awopbopaloobop on the strength of his outsized ego and chaotic potential.
(18) Ireland Like Iceland, Ireland’s economy was brought down by an outsize banking sector and it too was forced to seek help from the IMF.
(19) McDonald's, one of the biggest buyers of potatoes, has an outsize influence on the shape of the US potato supply.
(20) It has captured an outsize share of the science media’s attention, and set laudable goals, but it remains a small, fragile outpost of true believers within the vast scientific enterprise.