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Definition of 'LOT'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lot
one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.

2.  lot
the casting or drawing of such objects:
to choose a person by lot.

3.  lot
the decision or choice made by such a method.

4.  lot
allotted share; portion.

5.  lot
fate; fortune; destiny:
Her lot was not a happy one.

6.  lot
a distinct piece of land:
a building lot.

7.  lot
a piece of land forming a part of a district, city, or other community.

8.  lot
a piece of land having a specified use:
a parking lot.

9.  lot
a motion-picture studio and its surrounding property.

10.  lot
a distinct parcel, as of merchandise:
furniture auctioned off in 20 lots.

11.  lot
a number of things or persons:
There's one more, and that's the lot.

12.  lot
kind; sort:
He's a bad lot.

13.  lot
a great many or a great deal:
a lot of books; lots of money.

14. (v.t.) lot
to divide or distribute by lot.

15.  lot
to divide, as land, into lots.

16. (n.) Lot
Abraham's nephew, whose wife was changed into a pillar of salt for looking back during their flight from Sodom. Gen. 13:1–12, 19.

17. (n.) Lot
a river in S France, flowing W to the Garonne. 300 mi. (480 km) long.

Definition of 'LOT'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

2. (noun) lot
a parcel of land having fixed boundaries
"he bought a lot on the lake"

3. (noun) set, circle, band, lot
an unofficial association of people or groups
"the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot"

4. (noun) fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
"whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"

5. (noun) draw, lot
anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
"the luck of the draw"; "they drew lots for it"

6. (noun) bunch, lot, caboodle
any collection in its entirety
"she bought the whole caboodle"

7. (verb) Lot
(Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction

8. (verb) lot
divide into lots, as of land, for example

9. (verb) distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out
administer or bestow, as in small portions
"administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks"

Definition of 'LOT'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (pronoun) lot
lots/a lot
a large number or amount
I have a lot to do today.; I have lots to do today.; We have lots more milk in the fridge.; There are lots of bananas.; A lot of people thought he was lying.

2. (adverb) lot
a lot
much or a great amount
It's a lot hotter today.; We miss you a lot.; They argue quite a lot.

3. (noun) lot
a piece of empty land
the vacant lot behind the grocery store

4. lot
the lot
all of sth
I'll buy the lot.

5. lot
a set of people or things
A new lot of tourists had arrived.; You lot are being too noisy.

Definition of 'LOT'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) LOT
that which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate

2. (noun) LOT
anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots

3. (noun) LOT
the part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning

4. (noun) LOT
a separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; as, a lot of stationery; -- colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot

5. (noun) LOT
a distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field; as, a building lot in a city

6. (noun) LOT
a large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so

7. (noun) LOT
a prize in a lottery

8. (verb) LOT
to allot; to sort; to portion

Definition of 'LOT'

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

1. LOT
Specifically, a quantity of material all of which was manufactured under identical conditions and assigned an identifying lot number.

Translation of 'LOT'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a person's fortune or fate It seemed to be her lot to be always unlucky.
Afrikaans: noodlot	Arabic: نَصيب	Bulgarian: съдба
Brazilian: destino	Czech: osud	German: das Los
Danish: lod; skæbne	Greek: γραφτό, ριζικό	Spanish: suerte, destino
Estonian: saatus	Farsi: سرنوشت	Finnish: kohtalo
French: destinée	Hebrew: גוֹרָל	Hindi: ढेर
Croatian: sudbina	Hungarian: sok(at)	Indonesian: nasib
Icelandic: hlutskipti	Italian: destino	Japanese: 運命
Korean: 운명	Lithuanian: dalia, likimas	Latvian: liktenis
Malay: nasib	Dutch: lot	Norwegian: skjebne, lodd
Polish: los	Persian: سرنوشت	Pashto: سر نوشت،قسمت
Portuguese: destino	Romanian: soartă	Russian: участь
Slovak: osud	Slovenian: usoda	Serbian: kob
Swedish: lott,öde	Thai: ดวง	Turkish: talih, alın yazısı
Taiwanese: 運氣，命運	Ukrainian: доля; жереб	Urdu: قسمت
Vietnamese: vận mệnh	Chinese: 运气
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