A Topical Dictionary: Search for Big

Dictionary Results For "Big" [?]/[OPML]

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Big \Big\ (b[i^]g), a. [Compar. Bigger; superl. Biggest.]
[Perh. from Celtic; cf. W. beichiog, beichiawg, pregnant,
with child, fr. baich burden, Arm. beac'h; or cf. OE. bygly,
Icel. biggiligr, (properly) habitable; (then) magnigicent,
excellent, fr. OE. biggen, Icel. byggja, to dwell, build,
akin to E. be.]
1. Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of
great size; large. "He's too big to go in there." --Shak.
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2. Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth
or produce; -- often figuratively.
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[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
--Addison.
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3. Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation,
distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a
big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied
to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.
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God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. --Jer.
Taylor.
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Note: Big is often used in self-explaining compounds; as,
big-boned; big-sounding; big-named; big-voiced.
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To talk big, to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously.
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I talked big to them at first. --De Foe.
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Syn: Bulky; large; great; massive; gross.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Big \Big\, Bigg \Bigg\, v. t. [OE. biggen, fr. Icel. byggja to
inhabit, to build, b?a (neut.) to dwell (active) to make
ready. See Boor, and Bound.]
To build. [Scot. & North of Eng. Dial.] --Sir W. Scott.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Big \Big\, Bigg \Bigg\, n. [OE. bif, bigge; akin to Icel. bygg,
Dan. byg, Sw. bjugg.] (Bot.)
Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
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"Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now
with bigg." --New English
Dict.
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WordNet big
adj 1: above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or
extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a
large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family";
"big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number
of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large
areas of the world" [syn: large] [ant: small, small]
2: significant; "graduation was a big day in his life"
3: of very great significance; "deciding to drop the atom bomb
was a very big decision"; "a momentous event" [syn: momentous]
4: conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the
movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in
financial circles"; "a prominent citizen" [syn: large, prominent]
5: very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big
(or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn: bad]
6: loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"
7: prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor"
[syn: big(a), heavy(a)]
8: (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown
woman" [syn: adult, full-grown, fully grown, grown,
grownup]
9: marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"
10: feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a
swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride" [syn: swelled,
vainglorious]
11: older brother or sister; "big sister" [syn: big(a), elder,
older] [ant: little(a)]
12: exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" [syn: boastful, braggart(a),
bragging(a), braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing,
self-aggrandising]
13: generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough
to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so
forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large
heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies" [syn: large, magnanimous]
14: given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous
goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded
host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is
loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a
munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
[syn: bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded,
handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded]
15: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child";
"was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte, expectant,
gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), {with
child(p)}]
adv 1: extremely well; "his performance went over big"
2: in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" [syn: boastfully,
vauntingly, large]
3: on a grand scale; "think big" [ant: small]
4: in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"
[also: biggest, bigger]

Moby Dictionary
adult , aggrandized , ample , apotheosized , arrogant , arty , awash ,
awesome , awful , awfully , beatified , benevolent , big boy ,
big cheese , big noise , big shot , big-league , big-name , big-time ,
bighearted , bigwig , bigwigged , bombastic , brimful , brimming , bull ,
bumper , canonized , capacious , chivalrous , chock-full , cloyed ,
clumsy , commodious , comprehensive , condescending , consequential ,
considerable , considerate , copious , crammed , crowded , damned ,
deified , distended , domineering , double-barreled , earthshaking ,
elevated , eminent , ennobled , enshrined , enthroned , exalted ,
excellent , expectant , expecting , extensive , extravagant , extremely ,
fat , flushed , full to bursting , gassy , generous , glorified ,
glutted , gone , goodly , grand , gravid , great , great gun ,
great of heart , greathearted , greatly , grown , grown-up , handsome ,
haughty , healthy , heavy , heavyweight , hefty , held in awe , heroic ,
high , high and mighty , high-faluting , high-flown , high-headed ,
high-minded , high-nosed , high-powered , high-sounding ,
high-swelling , highfalutin , highfaluting , hoity-toity , hugely ,
hulking , husky , idealistic , immortal , immortalized , important ,
imposing , inflated , knightly , large , large-scale , largehearted ,
liberal , lion , lofty , magnanimous , magnified , major , man-sized ,
marriable , marriageable , material , mature , maturescent , meaningful ,
mighty , momentous , much , name , noble , noble-minded , nubile ,
numerous , of age , of marriageable age , old , openhanded ,
overbearing , overblown , overflowing , packed , parturient ,
patronizing , pretentious , princely , proud , purse-proud , replete ,
roomy , sainted , sanctified , sated , satiated , satisfied ,
self-important , shrined , significant , sizable , spacious , stuck-up ,
stuffed , sublime , substantial , supereminent , superior , swollen ,
tall , throned , tidy , toplofty , unwieldy , uppish , uppity , upstage ,
voluminous , weighty , whacking , whopping , windy , world-shaking

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FOLDOC \big

Prefix of several LaTeX commands implying a larger
symbol. See the command without "big". Often used to convert
a dyadic operator into a function which operates on a set.
E.g. \sqcup, \bigsqcup.

(1995-02-03)