A lot

Definition

lot / lɒt / n the lot, the whole lot [Gp] ( infml ) အကုန္လံုး။ အားလံုး။ တစ္ၿပံဳလံုး။ That’s the lot! ❍ Get out of my house, the (whole) lot of you! ❍ She expects a good salary, a company car, first-class air travel—the lot. a lot, lots pron ( infml ) အမ်ားႀကီး။ အမ်ားအျပား။ တစ္ပံု တစ္ေခါင္းႀကီး။ Have some more cake, there’s lots left. ❍ ‘How many paper clips do you need?’ ‘A lot/Lots. ’ adv ( infml ) ၁။ a lot, lots (used with adjs and advs ) မ်ားစြာ။ အမ်ားႀကီး။ I’m feeling a lot better today. ❍ I eat lots less than I used to. ၂။ a lot (used with vs ) (က) အမ်ားႀကီး။ မ်ားစြာ။ I care about you a lot. ❍ Thanks a lot for your help. (ခ) မၾကာမၾကာ။ I play tennis quite a lot in the summer. See also A FAT LOT n ၁။ [CGp] ( esp Brit ) အစု။ အသိုက္။ အသုတ္။ အပံု။ The first lot of visitors has/have arrived. ❍ I have several lots of essays to mark this weekend. ❍ ( infml ) What do you lot want? Compare BATCH ၁ ၂။ [C] (ေလလံတင္သည့္) ပစၥည္း၊ အစု၊ အတြဲ။ Lot 46: six chairs. ၃။ [C] အကြက္။ ကြက္လပ္။ a parking lot ❍ a vacant lot (ie a building site). ၄။ [sing] ကုသိုလ္ကံ။ ၾကမၼာ။ Her lot has been a hard one. ❍ ( infml ) That’s your lot (ie That is all you are getting). ❏ a bad lot [ IDM ] လူဆိုးလူေတ။ His brother is a thoroughly bad lot. ❏ by lot [ IDM ] မဲျဖင့္။ ❏ cast/draw lots (for sth/to do sth) [ IDM ] မဲႏိႈက္သည္။ မဲခ်သည္။ They drew lots for the right to go first. ❏ fall to sb’s lot to do sth [ IDM ] ( fml ) မဲက်သည္။ ❏ a lot of det (also infml lots of ) အေတာ္ မ်ားမ်ား။ သိပ္။ What a lot of presents! ❍ I haven’t got a lot of time. ❍ black coffee with lots of sugar ❍ A lot of people were killed in the riots. ❍ I saw quite a lot of her (ie I saw her quite often) during the holidays. ❍ MUCH 1 ❏ throw in one’s lot with sb [ IDM ] ဆိုးတူေကာင္းဖက္ သေဘာထား၍ ေျခစံုပစ္ဝင္သည္။

Examples

1. I liked her a lot.
2. I can run a lot faster than you.
3. Men take a lot longer in the supermarket than women.
4. We’re playing a lot better under the new manager.
5. I talk a lot
6. I know.
7. We see her in the mornings a lot
8. taking the children off to school.
9. She gets sad when she thinks about him
10. which happens a lot.
11. We’re paying her a lot for her services.
12. Have another piece of cake – there’s lots more in the kitchen.
13. [a lot of] : Bob used to have a lot of friends in New York.
14. I’ve got a lot of work to do.
15. There are a lot of questions that still remain unanswered.
16. The idea has attracted lots of publicity.
17. He’s making lots of money.
18. [a lot/lots to do/see/eat etc] : There’s a lot to see in New York.
19. [lots and lots] : There were lots and lots of posters to choose from.
20. I’ve got a lot on this weekend – I don’t think I can see you.
21. He’s hard to talk to at the moment – he’s got a lot on his mind.