lot
/lɑt/ noun A2- A large quantity or number; a great deal. · win the whole lot (of money); i.e. jackpot· lots of people think so
- A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole. · a lot of stationery
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
- A number of people taken collectively. · a sorry lot· a bad lot
- A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field. · a building lot in a city
- That which happens without human design or forethought.
- Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will. · to cast lots· to draw lots
- The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
Plural lots
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Here in London we have lots of Government detectives and lots of private ones.
A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
His studies are very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out-of-the-way knowledge which would astonish his professors.”
“You know such a lot, Mr.
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