Large vs Superdatabase - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between large and superdatabase

is that large is an old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves while superdatabase is a large or composite database.

As an adjective large

is of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

large

English

Adjective

(er)

Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

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(obsolete) Abundant; ample.

* Milton

We have yet large day.

(archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.

* Felton

I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.

(obsolete) Free; unencumbered.

* Fairfax

Of burdens all he set the Paynims large .

(obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.

* Shakespeare

Some large jests he will make.

(nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.

Synonyms

(checksyns) * big, huge, giant, gigantic, enormous, stour, great, mickle, largeish * See also

Antonyms

* small, tiny, minuscule

Derived terms

* as large as life, larger than life * by and large * enlarge * give it large * have it large * large it, large up, large it up * largely * largeness * writ large * largish

Noun

(music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.

(obsolete) Liberality, generosity.

A thousand dollars.

Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large .

Derived terms

* at large

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superdatabase

English

Noun

(en noun)

A large or composite database.

* 1998 , IEEE, 1998 Index to IEEE Publications

A technological and infrastructural challenge: a superdatabase for accessing all electronically published science and technology articles at once...

* 1999 , Susan Gauch, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information Knowledge

Every 30 databases are grouped into a superdatabase .

* 2008 , Alan Travis, Richard Norton-Taylor, Private firm may track all email and calls'' (''The Guardian , 31 December 2008)

But in his strongest criticism yet of the superdatabase , Sir Ken Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions, who has firsthand experience of working with intelligence and law enforcement agencies, told the Guardian such assurances would prove worthless in the long run...