Big vs King - What's the difference?
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Of great size, large.
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*: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.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (lb) Thought to have undue influence.
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Popular.
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(lb) Adult.
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*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.
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*:"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."
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, title= Enthusiastic (about).
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(lb) Mature, conscientious, principled.
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(lb) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
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Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
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*(and other bibliographic details) (Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
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In a loud manner.
In a boasting manner.
In a large amount or to a large extent.
On a large scale, expansively
Hard.
An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
(as plural) The big leagues, big time.
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To praise or recommend
to inhabit; occupy
to locate one's self
to build; erect; fashion
to dwell; have a dwelling
One or more kinds of barley, especially (six-rowed barley).
A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.
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A powerful or influential person.
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*:"I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came"
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Something that has a preeminent position.
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*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 3, author=Nathan Rabin, title=
, passage=It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.}}
A component of certain games.
#The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
#A playing card with the image of a king on it.
#A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
A king skin.
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A male dragonfly; a drake.
To crown king, to make (a person) king.
* 1982 , South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review , Volume 47,
* 2008 , William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (editor), Macbeth , Introduction,
To rule over as king.
* (William Shakespeare), , Act 2, Scene 4,
To perform the duties of a king.
* 1918 , Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman , Volume 35,
* 2001 , Chip R. Bell, Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning ,
To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
* 1917 , Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself ,
To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
* 1957 , Bertram Vivian Bowden (editor), Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines ,
* 1986 , Rick DeMarinis, The Burning Women of Far Cry ,
To dress and perform as a drag king.
* 2008 , Audrey Yue, King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia'', in Fran Martin, Peter Jackson, Audrey Yue, Mark McLelland (editors), ''AsiaPacifQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities ,
As a noun big
is a biological insulation garment; an air-tight, full-body suit intended to prevent the spread of contaminants.As a proper noun king is
the title of a king.big
English
Etymology 1
From a northern (etyl) dialectal term (m), .Adjective
(bigger)The rise of smart beta, passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}
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.}}
Synonyms
* (of a great size) ample, huge, large, sizeable, stoor, jumbo, massive * (adult) adult, fully grown, grown up * See alsoAntonyms
* (of a great size) little, small, tiny, minuscule, miniature, minute * (adult) little, youngDerived 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 failAdverb
(bigger)- He's always talking big , but he never delivers.
- He won big betting on the croquet championship.
- You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
- He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (big leagues) major leaguesVerb
(up)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Verb
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(-)Statistics
*king
English
(wikipedia king)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic), (l) (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Magician’s brain, passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.}}
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)
Coordinate terms
* (monarch) emperor, empress, maharajah, prince, princess, queen, regent, royalty, viceroy * (playing card) ace, jack, joker, queenDerived terms
* dragonking * King Billy * king cake * king of the hill * kingdom * kingly * kingmaker * kingmanship * King's English * king's ransom * Kingston * priest-kingSee also
* *Verb
(en verb)page 16,
- The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play .
page 24,
- One narrative is the kinging and unkinging of Macbeth; the other narrative is the attack on Banquo's line and that line's eventual accession and supposed Jacobean survival through Malcolm's successful counter-attack on Macbeth.
- And let us do it with no show of fear; / No, with no more than if we heard that England / Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance; / For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d , / Her sceptre so fantastically borne / By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, / That fear attends her not.
page 675,
- He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.
page 6,
- Second, Mentor (the old man) combined the wisdom of experience with the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to convey kinging skills to young Telemachus.
page 32,
- The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.
page 302,
- If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postponed the evil day.
page 100,
- I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to get kinged , but I slid my checker back.
page 266,
- Through the ex-centric diaspora, kinging in postcolonial Australia has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities have emerged through the contestations of "home" and "host" cultures.