A specific identified portion of a batch, that has uniform character and quality that is intended to meet specifications for identity, purity, strength, and composition.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
lot (noun)1.
an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance
2.
a) the use of lots as a means of deciding something
b) the resulting choice
3.
a) something that comes to one upon whom a lot has fallen - share
b) one's way of life or worldly fate - fortune
4.
a) a portion of land
b) a measured parcel of land having fixed boundaries and designated on a plot or survey
c) a motion-picture studio and its adjoining property
d) an establishment for the storage or sale of motor vehicles - a used car lot
5.
a) a number of units of an article, a single article, or a parcel of articles offered as one item (as in an auction sale)
b) all the members of a present group, kind, or quantity - usually used with the sampled the whole lot of desserts
6.
a) a number of associated persons - set fell in with a rough lot
b) - kind sort
7.
a considerable quantity or extent - a lot of money lots of friends fate
transitive verb
1.
- allot apportion
2.
to form or divide into lots
a nephew of Abraham who according to the account in Genesis escaped from the doomed city of Sodom with his wife who turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back
river 300 (483 ) France flowing into the Garonne - miles kilometers S W
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
lot (noun)1.
a small piece of land that is developed or available for development
SYNONYMS:
parcel, plat, plot, property, tractRELATED WORDS:
patch; frontage; lease; development; real estate2.
a considerable amount
SYNONYMS:
abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, lashings ( lashins), loads, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, shipload, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wad, wealth, yardRELATED WORDS:
epidemic, plague, rash; bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus; deluge, flood, overflow; army, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, throng; gazillion, jillion, kazillion, million, thousands, trillion, zillionNEAR ANTONYMS:
atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit; smatter, smattering; dash, drop, morsel, shot; piece, portion, section; absence, dearth, famine, lack, paucity, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want; deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, meagerness, scantiness, scantness, skimpiness3.
a small area of usually open land
SYNONYMS:
clearing, ground, lot, parcel, plat, plot, tractRELATED WORDS:
common(s), croft []; grass, green, greensward, lawn; glade, grassland, heath, heathland, lea ( ley), meadow, moor, pasture, pastureland4.
a number of things considered as a unit
SYNONYMS:
array, assemblage, band, bank, batch, battery, block, bunch, clot, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, constellation, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, muster, package, parcel, passel, set, suiteRELATED WORDS:
accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, conglomeration; agglomeration, assortment, hodgepodge, jumble, miscellany, mixture, odds and ends, sundries, variety; cycle, run, series, suitNEAR ANTONYMS:
entity, item, single, unit5.
a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand
SYNONYMS:
circumstance, destiny, doom, fortune, kismet, lot, portionRELATED WORDS:
accident, casualty [], chance, hap, happenchance, happenstance, hazard, luck; predestination; aftereffect, aftermath, conclusion, consequence, development, effect, fruit, issue, outcome, outgrowth, result, resultant, sequel, sequence, upshot6.
a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially
SYNONYMS:
body, bunch, circle, clan, clique, community, coterie, coven, crowd, fold, galère, klatch ( klatsch), lot, network, pack, ring, setRELATED WORDS:
charmed circle, elite, in-group; closed shop; club, college, fellowship, guild ( gild), league, organization, society; camp, faction, sect, side, tribe; mess, squad; brotherhood, fraternity, order, sisterhood, sodality, sorority; commune; alliance, bloc, coalition, confederation, congress, council, federation, unionNEAR ANTONYMS:
loner; individualist7.
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
SYNONYMS:
array, band, batch, battery, body, boodle, bunch, cluster, clutch, consort, constellation, crop, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, parcel, party, passelRELATED WORDS:
assembly, collective, congregation, gathering, muster, organization; circle, clan, clique, coterie, fellowship, gang, ring, round, set; faction, guild ( gild), order, school, sect; brigade, crew, outfit, phalanx, platoon, posse, task force, team; alliance, bloc, coalition, confederacy, confederation, federation, league, union; battalion, squadron; bevy, brood, coveyNEAR ANTONYMS:
individual, singleto give as a share or portion
SYNONYMS:
allocate, allow, apportion, assign, distribute, lot, rationRELATED WORDS:
admeasure, administer, deal, dispense, divide, dole out, hand out, measure, mete (out), meter, parcel (out), part, portion, prorate, share (out), split; accord, award, give, grant; earmark, reserve; chip in, contribute, donate; reallocate, reapportion, reassign, redistributeNEAR ANTONYMS:
begrudge, deny, deprive (of); keep, retain, stint, withhold; appropriate, arrogate, confiscateLot (Wikipedia)
Lot (Wiktionary)
Translingual
Symbol
lot
- (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lotuko.
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Lotuko terms
English
Etymology
From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlut, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą.
Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot,
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