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| Shopping | The largest selection of LOT products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| NOUN | 1 | lot, batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent |
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| 2 | lot | A parcel of land having fixed boundaries | |
| 3 | lot, fortune, destiny, fate, luck, circumstances, portion | Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | |
| 4 | lot, bunch, caboodle | Any collection in its entirety | |
| 5 | lot, set, circle, band | An unofficial association of people or groups | |
| 6 | lot, draw | Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random | |
| 7 | Lot | (Old Testament) nephew of Abraham | |
| VERB | 1 | lot | Divide into lots, as of land, for example |
| 2 | lot, distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out | Administer or bestow, as in small portions |
| Sounds | laa't; lao't |
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| Rhymes | aforethought, afterthought, Alcott, and 73 more rhymes in aat... |
| afterthought, argonaut / Argonaut, cosmonaut, and 14 more rhymes in aot... |
| Meaning | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent. |
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| Examples | "a lot of money" |
| Synonyms | batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew |
| Broader | large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount |
| Narrower | flood, inundation, deluge, torrent; haymow |
| Meaning | A parcel of land having fixed boundaries. |
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| Examples | "he bought a lot on the lake" |
| Broader | tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel |
| Narrower | parking lot, car park, park, parking area; vacant lot, building site |
| Verbs | lot |
| Meaning | Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you). |
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| Examples | "has a happy lot" |
| Synonyms | fortune, destiny, fate, luck, circumstances, portion |
| Broader | condition |
| Narrower | good fortune, luckiness, good luck; providence; misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill luck; failure |
| Meaning | Any collection in its entirety. |
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| Synonyms | bunch, caboodle |
| Broader | collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage |
| Meaning | An unofficial association of people or groups. |
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| Examples | "they were an angry lot" |
| Synonyms | set, circle, band |
| Broader | social group |
| Narrower | car pool; clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp; cohort; conspiracy, confederacy; Four Hundred; horsy set, horsey set; jet set; party, company |
| Meaning | Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random. |
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| Examples | "they drew lots for it" |
| Synonyms | draw |
| Broader | object, physical object |
| Meaning | (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. |
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| Category | Old Testament |
| Instance of | Jew, Hebrew, Israelite |
| Meaning | Divide into lots, as of land, for example. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Broader | divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up |
| Nouns | lot |
| Meaning | Administer or bestow, as in small portions. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
| Synonyms | distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out |
| Broader | give |
| Narrower | assign, allot, portion; reallot; deal; give, apply |
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