(n.) That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
(n.) Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots.
(n.) The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
(n.) A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; as, a lot of stationery; -- colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot.
(n.) A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field; as, a building lot in a city.
(n.) A large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so.
(n.) A prize in a lottery.
(v. t.) To allot; to sort; to portion.
Example Sentences:
(1) You lot have got real issues to talk about and deal with.
(2) Yorkshire is going to get a lot of tourists after this."
(3) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
(4) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(5) There is no deal done regarding Paul Pogba, lots of bla bla bla,” the Dutchman wrote on Twitter .
(6) Between-lot variation exceeded that of within-lot variation in 10 of the 14 liquid antacids for which this variation could be tested.
(7) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(8) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
(9) It is concluded that catechol potentiates excitatory transmission at the LOT-superficial pyramidal cell synapse, possibly by increasing evoked transmitter release.
(10) Later Downing Street elaborated on its position, pointing out that Brooks was a constituent of Cameron's and, in any case, "the prime minister regularly meets newspaper executives from lots of different companies".
(11) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(12) So far, the UK election has thrown up a carnival of peculiar results | Lewis Baston Read more Scotland, of course, is a different story: but David Cameron’s antagonistic response to the 2014 referendum clearly swung a lot of anti-Tory voters towards the SNP.
(13) "I'm not a career banker ... and given I was reputationally undamaged, I got a lot of calls [at that time]."
(14) "Getting a 95% loan to value mortgage lets you speculate on the expected house price increases a lot more than a 75% mortgage," he said.
(15) Chikavu Nyirenda, a leading political analyst, said: "She neglected to look at the local scene but spent a lot of time to please the west and promote herself."
(16) But it should also be noted that this Spurs team might be the best Spurs team ever, and they've had lots of good teams (including four previous championship teams).
(17) Between having Lily and promoting Fish Tank, Jarvis has done a lot of growing up in the past year.
(18) Learn from the masters The best way to recognise a good shot is to look at lots of other photographs.
(19) Yogi Breisner, performance manager for the British eventing team, said: "It is a real shame that it has been called off, especially in an Olympic year when a lot of the riders and horses would have been on show.
(20) I buy ‘smart price’, own-brand cornflakes, rather than Kellogg’s, and I still get to the checkout and think, ‘That’s come to a lot again.’” Are you Daniel Blake?
Nephew
Definition:
(n.) A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant.
(n.) A cousin.
(n.) The son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ibd for grandparent-grandchild pairs is least affected by recombination, followed by sibs, half-sib, uncle-nephew, and first-cousin pairs.
(2) Zhang Gaoping, 47, told state media that he and his nephew were subject to seven days of brutal interrogation before trial – sleep deprivation, starvation, cigarette burns.
(3) The striker, who is Agnew’s nephew, joined Boro for £11m from Blackburn Rovers in January but Karanka has since struggled to find room for him in his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation and Rhodes has started only four of a possible eight games, scoring one goal.
(4) The burned epidermis was removed and each burn wound was assigned to one of the following treatment groups: (1) air-exposed, (2) DuoDERM (hydrocolloid dressing; Squibb Co., New Jersey), (3) Opsite (polyurethane dressing; Smith & Nephew, New Jersey), or (4) experimental cream.
(5) Johnson’s family paid tribute to the “exceptional son, brother, grandson and nephew”.
(6) Wanda Mintz said her nephew tried to crawl away but could not move because of his wounds.
(7) In an article for the Guardian, the author Ahdaf Soueif, Laila's sister, described her nephew as a "central, charismatic figure" who "embodies some of the core aspects of the Egyptian revolution".
(8) Lorien Carter said her nephew had been “a beautiful young man”.
(9) After she died I was sent away to a school and six years on I received a letter – as you do – saying that a Mr John Jarndyce wanted me to be a companion to his niece and nephew.
(10) At the same time you get an email from your nephew's friend asking you to sponsor them for the marathon, also in aid of Crisis.
(11) Abraham’s uncle, who is already looking after three sets of orphaned relatives, said he would care for his nephew despite struggling to feed his enlarged family.
(12) Then, a couple of days later , an unknown man claiming to be her nephew popped up on national TV.
(13) Karimova blamed her latest problems firmly on her mother, who she claimed had promised to "destroy" her for trying (unsuccessfully) in October to prevent the arrest of Akbarali Abdullayev, Gulnara Karimova's cousin and Tatyana Karimova's nephew, who she suggested knew too much about the allegedly shady business affairs of his aunt.
(14) It was not immediately clear if Miyazawa - a nephew of late prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa and a cousin of foreign minister Fumio Kishida - would step down.
(15) Linyi City authorities have imprisoned his 33-year-old nephew Chen Kegui for defending himself against stick-wielding officials and security agents on the night of Chen's escape .
(16) The occurrence of breast cancer in two related males, an uncle and nephew is reported.
(17) Madison police chief says officer shooting of unarmed man has similarities to Ferguson Read more On Friday evening, Lorien Carter spoke to a crowd in front of the building in Madison, Wisconsin where her nephew, Anthony Terrell Robinson, was earlier shot and killed by a police officer, Matt Kenny.
(18) He was too short of breath to kick a football around with his nephew or walk anywhere with his friends.
(19) So instead, he set off for Europe in a group of six, with about $8,000 to pay for the journey of a brother, sister-in-law, nephew, cousin and friend, a trek that has lasted a month and a half already.
(20) The son of Malaysia's second prime minister, the nephew of its third, president of the dominant United Malays National Organisation (Umno), and a former defence minister, Najib was born to power and is accustomed to wielding it.