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Meanings of big in English
Exhibiting self-importance.
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Given or giving freely.
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Examples for "giving"
Examples for "giving"
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This included giving doctors more time to do paper work, he said.
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China also offered more aid, the news agency said, without giving details.
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Business confidence remains robust, giving the economy momentum heading into this year.
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You belong in the light; in love and the giving of love.
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Three months, you say, giving a simple answer to a simple question.
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And Wyatt is handsome,' Bonvisi says, 'in the English style, of course.
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Photograph: HBO He is handsome, of course, though in a low-key way.
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Father was dressed in his new Italian suit and looked extremely handsome.
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It wasn't long until a new tenant for the handsome house appeared.
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Now you just make some handsome sons and vote the right way.
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The second was economic: the free market liberal revolution of the 1980s.
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The research is made freely available immediately, within a liberal licensing regime.
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Israel has a strong economy, enviable healthcare system and liberal social policy.
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He rejected the fundamental principles of the liberal movement in German politics.
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Mr Dunne agreed that more liberal laws for natural cannabis could help.
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The Irish service hasn't quite caught up with the bountiful UK equivalent.
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After that, it will carry a bountiful second flush in early autumn.
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Such bountiful opportunities, though, suggest a double-B deal is meant to be.
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You can thank the bountiful Jupiter-Sun celestial love fest for that now.
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It's not as though your love life has been bountiful this year.
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The above comedy was thrown in for their entertainment by bounteous fate.
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A lesser man would have been jealous of Simon's bounteous good fortune.
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As bounteous as the hand of God was their house to me.
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Ye should give a bounteous offering to the gods for preserving you.
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She smiled, that bounteous woman, with the joy of life and hope.
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His arms went out, openhanded, in a hopeless gesture of appeasement.
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Before Russ could react, Anna hauled back and slapped him openhanded across the face.
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He hit Shadow an openhanded blow across the stomach, knocking the breath from him.
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That group had been most openhanded with John Eliot.
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And then he stepped forward and gave me an openhanded slap to the face, hard.
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Baird wasn't exactly the most bighearted Gear, but he couldn't resist a mechanical challenge.
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Selma was a large black woman, bighearted and fiercely independent.
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Tom Wells is bighearted and smart without a Mr.
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He pictured Monk, easy mannered, sharp-eyed, bighearted.
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Or had he just taken advantage of Jolene's bighearted instincts to give of herself without regard for herself?
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The king's representatives had been much too freehanded in granting land.
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He seemed good-natured, he was freehanded, he had money, he never said anything.
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God was not freehanded with His heaven.
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The heavy debts of England had to be considered-andhere, as in all pecuniary arrangements, England was freehanded.
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He was generous and freehanded with his money, loved joviality, and had a good voice for a song.
Usage of big in English
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We still have big water issues following the Havelock North water crisis.
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No idea what half those big words mean but, yes, good point.
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The paper sheds new light on a big issue for technology companies.
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The big question now is: Can Quora really hope to answer everything?
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New firms offering 'big data' solutions to bond traders continue to emerge.
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A prime example is Goldman Sachs, the big-name New York financial house.
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Activity fell in Europe, though, after several big bank fundraisings last year.
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The message is clear: big bang Friday was a good day's work.
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But ranchers' land rights became big news recently, through one extreme example.
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In the past year we've seen quite a big change in attitudes.
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Swiss authorities earlier in the day banned big events on health concerns.
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New targets still represent a big premium to Goldman's recent market value.
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New investors therefore know they may have no say over big decisions.
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The seventh year is called the Sabbath year, and big things happen.
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So the question is: How big of a problem is that, really?
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The big question is whether anything will change in the longer term.
