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Myriad: 10,000 Loosely refers to a very large quantity Pair: 2 Often in reference to identical objects Trio: 3 Referring to people working or collaborating especially in musical performance Few: 3 Small number of something Quartet: 4 Referring to people working or collaborating especially in musical performance Great gross: 1,728 A dozen gross ...
A skeleton key is a 万 能 钥 匙 ("myriad-use key"), [8] the emperor was the "lord of myriad chariots" (萬乘之主), [9] the Great Wall is called 万 里 长 城 ("Myriad-mile Long Wall"), Zhu Xi's statement 月 映 万 川 ("the moon reflects in myriad rivers") had the sense of supporting greater empiricism in Chinese philosophy, [10] and ...
For example: couple (2), [21] dozen (12), score (20); myriad (10,000). When a quantity word is prefixed with an indefinite article then it is sometimes intended or interpreted to be indefinite. For example, "one million" is clearly definite, but "a million" could be used to mean either a definite (she has a million followers now) or an ...
eager or intent on, example: he is keen to get to work on time. desirable or just right, example: "peachy keen" – "That's a pretty keen outfit you're wearing." (slang going out of common usage) keeper a curator or a goalkeeper: one that keeps (as a gamekeeper or a warden) a type of play in American football ("Quarterback keeper")
For the first portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English (A–L). Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other dialect; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively. Additional usage ...
Myriad Genetics , almost one month after a landmark ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court both undermined and supported the company's claim of patents for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, has filed suit ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
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