BIGnoun

• 1

  A biological insulation garment; an air-tight, full-body suit intended to prevent the spread of contaminants.

bigadj詞源 1/bɪɡ/

• 1

  Of great size, large.

  • Elephants are big animals, and they eat a lot.
  • The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line,[…], with their court of farm and church and clustered village, in dignified seclusion.
• 2

  informalOf great size, large.

  • Gosh, she is big!
• 3

  Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.

  • She was big with child.
  • The Dawn is over-caſt, the Morning low’rs, And heavily in Clouds brings on the Day, The great, th’ important Day; big with the Fate Of Cato and of Rome.
• 4

  informalWell-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.

• 5

  informalWell-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.

  • I'm the shortest man on the team but in the gym shower everyone can see that I'm also the biggest.
• 6

  informalWell-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.

  • I've been lifting weights for a full year now, but I'm finally getting big.
• 7

  informalAdult; (of a child) older.

  • Kids should get help from big people if they want to use the kitchen.
  • We were just playing, and then some big kids came and chased us away.
• 8

  rareslanginformalAdult; (of a child) older.

  • I don't think so, if you're shouting at people across the playground at your big age.

bigadv詞源 1/bɪɡ/

• 1

  In a loud manner.

• 2

  In a boasting manner.

  • He's always talking big, but he never delivers.
• 3

  In a large amount or to a large extent.

  • He won big betting on the croquet championship.
  • Don't miss our November sale — it's your last chance to save big before Christmas!
• 4

  informalIn a large amount or to a large extent.

  • I've always been big into sport, but I'm especially big into football.
• 5

  On a large scale, expansively.

  • You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
  • 'You've got to put it over big,' he was saying in a loud nasal voice.
• 6

  Hard; with great force.

  • He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.

bignoun詞源 1/bɪɡ/

• 1

  Someone or something that is large in stature.

  • You could throw out everything else, but I had the speed to split double-teams. Like, go at double-teams numerous times in a possession, on consecutive possessions where I'm testing your endurance, your bigs.
• 2

  An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.

• 3

  The big leagues, big time.

  • In the Appalachian League, where Cal Ripken once played in Bluefield, W.Va., a ballplayer's chances of making it to the bigs are less than one in six.
• 4

  An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).

  • He was there the night of Cristoph's party. All the littles were assigned to their bigs. Ian and Christoph had rushed the same fraternity. When they became upperclassmen, they both ended up on the board.
  • She added that the relationship between bigs and littles is "what each pair makes of it," and that a lot of the pairs often get dinner together and become close friends.
• 5

  The participant in age roleplay who acts out the older role.

bigverb詞源 2/bɪɡ/

• 1

  archaicdialectalTo inhabit; occupy.

• 2

  archaicdialectalTo locate oneself.

• 3

  archaicdialectalTo build; erect; fashion.

  • Don't big it up.
• 4

  archaicdialectalTo dwell; have a dwelling.

bignoun詞源 3/bɪɡ/

• 1

  archaicdialectalOne or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.

  • The poor lass was sitting bemoaning herself - "Were it nae for thy girning face, I would knock the big, winnow the corn, and grun the meal," - "Lowse the cradle-band," said the child, "and tent the neighbours, and I'll work yere work." Up he started - the wind arose - the corn was chopped - the outlyers were foddered - the hand-mill moved around, as by instinct - and the knocking-mill did its work with amazing rapidity.

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