Big vs Average - What's the difference?

In informal terms the difference between big and average

is that big is Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nounsaverage is not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

As adjectives the difference between big and average

is that big is of great size, large while average is constituting or relating to the average.

As nouns the difference between big and average

is that big is an important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name while average is financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

As verbs the difference between big and average

is that big is to praise or recommend while average is to compute the arithmetic mean of.

As an adverb big

is in a loud manner.

big

English

Etymology 1

From a northern (etyl) dialectal term (m), .

Adjective

(bigger)

Of great size, large.

*: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.

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(lb) Thought to have undue influence.

Popular.

(lb) Adult.

*1931 , , Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft:

*:By midnight, however, the last light had fled / For even big people have then gone to bed[.]

(lb) Fat.

(lb) Important or significant.

*:"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, work=BBC Sport

, title= Norwich 3-3 Blackburn , passage=It proved a big miss as Hoilett produced a sublime finish into the top corner of the net from 20 yards after evading a couple of challenges in first-half stoppage time.}}

Enthusiastic (about).

(lb) Mature, conscientious, principled.

(lb) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.

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

*(and other bibliographic details) (Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)

*:[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.

(lb)

Synonyms

* (of a great size) ample, huge, large, sizeable, stoor, jumbo, massive * (adult) adult, fully grown, grown up * See also

Antonyms

* (of a great size) little, small, tiny, minuscule, miniature, minute * (adult) little, young

Derived terms

* Big Apple * big-ass * big baby * big band * Big Bang * big bath * big beat * Big Ben * Big Bertha * big blind * big bluestem * Big Board * big-boned * big box * big boy/big boys * big break * big brother * Big Brother * big bucks * big business * big C * big cat * big cheese * Big Crunch * Big D * big daddy * big deal * Big Dipper * Big Easy * big enchilada * big end * big fat/big-fat/big phat * big figure * big fish * big fly * Big Four * big game * biggie, no biggie * big girl's blouse * big government * big gun * big H/Big H * big hair * big hand * big head/big-head * big-headed * big-hearted * big house * big idea * big if * big iron * Big Island * big kid * big labor * big-league * big lick * big lie * big lug * big kahuna * Big Mac * big money * big mouth * Big Muddy * big name / big-name * bigness * big O * big O notation * big old/big ole * big one/the big one * big pharma * big picture * Big Q * big rig * Big Rip * big science * big screen * big shagbank * big shot * big shoulder * big six/the big six * Big Six * big sleep * big slick * Big Smoke * big spender * big spring * big stick * Big Sur * big talk * big tent * Big Three * big-ticket * big time/big-time/bigtime * big toe * big top/big-top * big tree * Big Uglies * big up * big wheel * big whoop * big wig/big-wig/bigwig * big-wigged * big wow * great big * hit it big * make it big * /Mr Big/Mister Big * the bigs * too big for one's boots * too big to fail

Adverb

(bigger)

In a loud manner.

In a boasting manner.

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

In a large amount or to a large extent.

He won big betting on the croquet championship.

On a large scale, expansively

You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.

Hard.

He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.

Noun

(en noun)

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

(as plural) The big leagues, big time.

Synonyms

* (big leagues) major leagues

Verb

(up)

To praise or recommend

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

Verb

to inhabit; occupy

to locate one's self

to build; erect; fashion

to dwell; have a dwelling

Etymology 3

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l), (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(-)

One or more kinds of barley, especially (six-rowed barley).

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Anagrams

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average

English

(wikipedia average)

Noun

(en noun)

(legal, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

* 2008 , Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, International Business Law and Its Environment , page 219,

Historically, the courts have allowed a general average' claim only where the loss occurred as a result of the ship being in immediate peril.The court awarded the carrier the general '''average''' claim. It noted that “a ship?s master should not be discouraged from taking timely action to avert a disaster,” and need not be in actual peril to claim general ' average .

Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.

Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.

(mathematics) The arithmetic mean.

* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty

, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.

(statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.

(sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

(UK, legal, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.

(UK, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

Usage notes

* (sense) The term average' may refer to the statistical mean, median or mode of a batch, sample, or distribution, or sometimes any other measure of central tendency. Statisticians and responsible news sources are careful to use whichever of these specific terms is appropriate. In common usage, ' average refers to the arithmetic mean. It is, however, a common rhetorical trick to call the most favorable of mean, median and mode the "average" depending on the interpretation of a set of figures that the speaker or writer wants to promote.

Coordinate terms

* (measure of central tendency) arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, mean, median, mode

Derived terms

* above average * average atomic mass * averager * batting average * below average * bowling average * earned run average * general average * grade point average * height above average terrain * law of averages * moving average * on average * particular average * rolling average * slugging average * subaverage * time average * weighted average * weighted-average cost of capital

Adjective

(en adjective)

(not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.

The average age of the participants was 18.5.

Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

I soon found I was only an average chess player.

Typical.

* 2002 , Andy Turnbull, The Synthetic Beast: When Corporations Come to Life , page 12,

We tend to think that exceptionally attractive men and women are outstanding but the fact is that they are more average than most.

* 2004 , Deirdre V. Lovecky, Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits , page 75,

Things that never would occur to more average children, with and without AD/HD, will give these children nightmares.

* '2009'', Susan T. Fiske, ''Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology , page 73,

In other words, highly attractive people like highly attractive communicators and more average' people like more ' average communicators.

The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.

(informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

* 2002 , Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002 , page 228,

The graphics, sound, and most everything else are all very average . However, the main thing that brings this game down are the controls - they feel very clumsy and awkward at times.

* 2005 , Brad Knight, Laci Peterson: The Whole Story: Laci, Scott, and Amber's Deadly Love Triangle , page 308,

But what the vast majority of the populace doesn?t realise is the fact that he?s only on TV because he became famous from one case, Winona Ryder's, which, by the way, he lost because he?s only a very average attorney.

* 2009 , Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side , page 62,

In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists.

Synonyms

* (constituting or relating to the average) mean; expectation (colloquial) * (neither very good nor very bad) mediocre, medium, middle-ranking, middling, unremarkable, so-so, * (typical) conventional, normal, regular, standard, typical, usual, bog-standard (slang) * ordinary, uninspiring

Antonyms

* (neither very good nor very bad) extraordinary

Derived terms

* average bear * average Joe * averagely * averageness

Verb

(averag)

(informal) To compute the arithmetic mean of.

If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.

Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.

To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.

to average a loss

To be, generally or on average.

* 1872 Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds

Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build

Derived terms

* average down * average out * average up * averageable * unaveraged