Big

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  180 Moby Thesaurus words for "big":
     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
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  BIG
       Bionet Intelligent Gateway (BioData)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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)