Word Finder - lots

definition

A large quantity or number; a great deal.

example

lots of people think so

synonyms

• load
• mass
• pile

definition

A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.

example

a lot of stationery

synonyms

• batch
• collection
• group
• set

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One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.

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A number of people taken collectively.

example

a bad lot

synonyms

• crowd
• gang
• group

definition

A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.

example

a building lot in a city

synonyms

• allotment
• parcel
• plot

definition

That which happens without human design or forethought.

synonyms

• accident
• chance
• destiny
• fate
• fortune

definition

Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.

example

to cast lots

definition

The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.

definition

A prize in a lottery.

synonyms

• prize

definition

Allotment; lottery.

definition

(definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.

example

If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them.

definition

An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.

definition

To allot; to sort; to apportion.

definition

To count or reckon (on or upon).

definition

A lot; a great deal; tons; loads.

example

Don't worry, my family has lots of money.

definition

A great deal; very much.

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I care lots about the humane treatment of animals.

I've had lots of experience.

Lots of people forget them.

There were lots of pretty flowers down below but he kept driving.

The smallest state has lots of small people; delightful children everywhere, but alas, now there is one less.

There's lots to do.

He must have lots of connections.

There's probably lots of handles of 'metalman.'

You'll be wanting to spend lots of time at the library and museum.

There were lots of businesses and folks came out of the hollows from miles around to shop.

There are lots of them.

No, I did lots of towns here.

If you can't find a fixed rappel, you have to rig one, but at popular climbing spots, like in the ice park, there's lots of choices 'cause it's climbed so much.

Forget its cliched use as a companion to red begonias, because this pretty plant has lots more to offer.

Just exercise a little caution, have patience, good equipment and lots of common sense.

Do you guys bother with a trial around here or do you just draw lots and send us blood thirsty killers directly over to Cañon City?

My guess is Edith left lots of little subtle clues around her house, letting hubby know where she was going.

I've read about it lots of times.

Lots of people, wealthy or not, would take advantage of a situation like that.

It was a very richly decorated object of coloured threads interwoven with gold, worn outside the luxurious mantle or robe; it was kept in place by a girdle, and by shoulder-pieces (?), to which were attached brooches of onyx (fastened to the robe) and golden rings from which hung the "breastplate" (or rather pouch) containing the sacred lots, Urim and Thummim.

There is plenty to keep students busy with lots of choices within the eight main areas.

Most of all, he wanted to tell her that he had never met a women who affected him the way she did, and he wanted to spend time with her, lots of time.

There are lots of women out there who meet that requirement.

Moonlight spilled over large buildings with triangular roofs into community squares abutting stacked parking lots.

Lots of others aren't.

There are lots of stations along there.

Ridner's been in it lots of times.

We still have to wait a little while and there are lots of details to iron out, but Ms. Rosewater says it looks positive.

The guy said the face looked familiar but it's a big store, there's lots of clerks and it's an old picture.

There's something you're not telling me— maybe lots of things.

No, but it's so cold up here lots of the bikers are wearing jack­ets and sweats that cover up their numbers.

He listened attentively to her requests – something easy to see on the road, lots of room inside, easy to drive and with good gas mileage.

If he really has lots of money, like everyone says, why did he move up here?

He does have lots of money – and no wife.

I don't know if I'll have much fun spending your... lots of money.

But there were lots of chores, so she didn't have much time to think about it.

Dad's response had been that they had lots of birds outside and they had chickens.

Two of the lots were immediately purchased by Captain Ephraim Williams (1715-1755), who was at the time commander of Fort Massachusetts in the vicinity; several other lots were bought by soldiers under him; and in 1 753 the proprietors organized a township government.

To encourage the poorer classes of the people to become landholders, it was decided that the lots offered for sale should be small, and that the purchaser should be allowed to pay by five or ten yearly instalments.

For the prophet's function became in an increasing degree a function of mind, and not merely of traditional routine or mechanical technique, like that of the diviner with his arrows or his lots which he cast in the presence of the ephod or plated Yahweh image.

At his suggestion they cast lots, and the first man was killed by the second and so on, until all were dead except Josephus and (perhaps) one other.

Lysander as ephor proposed on behalf of Agis that all debts sbould be cancelled and that Laconia should be divided into 19,500 lots, of which 4500 should be given to Spartiates, whose number was to be recruited from the best of the perioeci and foreigners, and the remaining 15,000 to perioeci who could bear arms. The Agiad king Leonidas having prevailed on the council to reject this measure, though by a majority of only one, was deposed in favour of his son-in-law Cleombrotus, who assisted Agis in bearing down opposition by the threat of force.

This would be as if two men were to agree to draw lots as to which should commit suicide in order to avoid fighting a duel.

They agreed to cast lots, on the understanding that the second should kill the first and so on.

There is also a clause which exempts from seizure for debt the homestead, not more than two hundred acres of land in the country, or a house of any value in a city or town on a lot or lots not exceeding five thousand dollars in value at the time of its designation as the homestead.

By the Land Act of 1894 the state domains, except on the coasts and frontiers, were divided into lots for sale.

In 1795 the Ohio Company sold to the French settlers for $1.25 an acre the land they occupied and adjacent improved lots, and the United States government granted to them 24,000 acres in the southern part of what is now Scioto County in 1795; little of this land (still known as the "French Grant"), however, was ever occupied by them.

But in the " Great Division " which took place in 1848 and forms the foundation of present land titles, about 984,000 acres, nearly onefourth of the inhabited area, were set apart for the crown, about r, 495, 000 acres for the government, and about 1,619,000 acres for the several chiefs; and the common people received fee-simple titles 4 for their house lots and the pieces of land which they cultivated for themselves, about 28,600 acres, almost entirely in isolated patches of irregular shape hemmed in by the holdings of the crown, the government or the great chiefs.

The conference of 1792 was so much perplexed that it resorted to the casting of lots.

The most plausible etymology connects the name with the Assyrian guru, either in the sense of "turn" of office at the beginning of the New Year or in that of "pebble" used for votes or lots.

But Praeneste was chiefly famed for its great temple of Fortune and for its oracle, in connexion with the temple, known as the "Praenestine lots" (sortes praenestinae) .