Got vs Lot - What's the difference?
got | lot |
(get)
(British, NZ)
(Southern US, with to) ; have (to).
* 1971 , Carol King and Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, Tapestry , Ode Records
(Southern US, UK, slang) have
A large quantity or number; a great deal.
* W. Black
* , chapter=3
, title= A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
(informal) A number of people taken collectively.
A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
* Kent
That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
* Spenser
Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
* Bible, Proverbs xvi. 33
* Shakespeare
The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
*
A prize in a lottery.
Allotment; lottery.
* 1990 : (Donald Kagan), Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy , chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing; 2239)
All members of a set; everything.
An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
(dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
(US, informal, dated) To count]] or [[reckon on, reckon (on'' or ''upon ).
As proper nouns the difference between got and lot
is that got is god while lot is a nephew of abraham in the bible and quran.got
English
Verb
(head)- We got the last bus home.
- By that time we'd got very cold.
- I've got two children.
- How many children have you got ?
- I can't go out tonight, I've got to study for my exams.
- I got to go study.
- We got to ride to clean up the streets / For our wives and our daughters!
- They got a new car.
- He got a lot of nerve.
Usage notes
* (past participle of get) The second sentence literally means "At some time in the past I got (obtained) two children", but in "have got" constructions like this, where "got" is used in the sense of "obtained", the sense of obtaining is lost, becoming merely one of possessing, and the sentence is in effect just a more colloquial way of saying "I have two children". Similarly, the third sentence is just a more colloquial way of saying "How many children do you have?" * (past participle of get) The American and archaic British usage of the verb conjugates as get-got-gotten or as get-got-got depending on the meaning (see for details), whereas the modern British usage of the verb has mostly lost this distinction and conjugates as get-got-got in most cases. * (expressing obligation) "Got" is a filler word here with no obvious grammatical or semantic function. "I have to study for my exams" has the same meaning. It is often stressed in speech: "You've just got to see this."Synonyms
* gotta (informal )Statistics
*lot
English
Noun
(en noun)- He wrote to her he might be detained in London by a lot of business.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
- The defendants leased a house and lot in the city of New York.
- But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay.
- The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
- If we draw lots , he speeds.
- O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's / Enough to bear.
- He was but born to try / The lot of man — to suffer and to die.
- as Jones alone was discovered, the poor lad bore not only the whole smart, but the whole blame; both which fell again to his lot on the following occasion.
- (Evelyn)
- The Greeks expected their leaders to show physical courage, whether in the athletic arena or in battle, as well as piety, generosity, and nobility. Cimon had risen to power chiefly because of his military prowess, and any rival must be able to show at least honorable service and military competence. By this time, moreover, the generals were coming to be the most important political figures in Athens. Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot . Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit.
- The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot .