Huge vs Luge - What's the difference?
huge | luge |
Very large.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess), chapter=1 *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (lb) Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.
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A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back.
The sport of racing on luges.
To travel by luge
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 5, author=Jennifer Schuessler, title=Inside the List, work=New York Times
, passage=After the girlfriend luged to her death halfway down the icy slope, Ollestad had to pick his way down alone, following the trail of her blood. }}
As an adjective huge
is very large.As a noun luge is
spoon.huge
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Synonyms
* (very large) colossal, enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast * See alsoAntonyms
* (very large) tiny, small, minuscule,Derived terms
* hugely * hugeness * hugeous * superhugeExternal links
* * ----luge
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(en noun)Verb
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