some
/sʌm/ particle C2- A nonzero, unspecified proportion of (a bounded set of countable things): at least two. · Near-synonym: any· Some people like camping.
- A nonzero, unspecified quantity or number of (an unbounded set of countable things). · Near-synonym: any· Would you like some grapes?
- An unspecified amount of (something uncountable). · Near-synonym: any· Would you like some water?
- A certain, an unspecified or unknown. · I've just met some guy who said he knew you.· The sequence S converges to zero for some initial value v.
- A considerable quantity or number of. · He had edited the paper for some years.· He stopped working some time ago.
- Approximately, about (with a number). · She has worked at the company for some thirty years now. (31 and two months, to be exact.)· There were only some three or four cars in the lot at the time.
- Emphasizing a number. · She has worked at the company for some five years now! How remarkable!
- A remarkable. · He is some acrobat!· That was some speech you gave!
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The apartment destined for the purpose was spacious and lighted by a number of windows, over each of which was written in golden letters for some inexplicable reason the name of one of the principal cities of France; beneath these windows a wooden balcony extended the entire length of the house.
On the very threshold she stopped short, wheeled about, came back and sat down by the table, light and glow as effectually blotted out as if some one had clapped an extinguisher on her.
The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled Pomègue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board.
“I know nothing for certain; only I have seen things which induce me to believe, as I told you, that the future captain will find some annoyance in the vicinity of the Vieilles Infirmeries.”
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