Multiple vs Plenty - What's the difference?
multiple | plenty |
Having more than one element, part, component, or function, particularly many.
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* 14, 21 and 70 are multiples of 7
(finance) Price-earnings ratio.
One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
A single individual who has multiple personalities.
* 2010 , Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar
* 2000 , Henk Driessen, ?Ton Otto, Perplexities of identification (page 115)
A more than adequate amount.
* 1798 , (Thomas Malthus), (An Essay on the Principle of Population):
More than sufficiently.
(label) , very.
* 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
(label) much, enough
(label) many
(label) plentiful
* 1597 , Shakespeare, Henry IV , Part I, Act I, Scene IV:
* 1836 , The American Gardener's Magazine and Register , volume 2, page 279:
1000 English basic words
As an adjective multiple
is multiple.As a proper noun plenty is
a village in saskatchewan, canada.multiple
English
(wikipedia multiple)Adjective
(en adjective)Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Antonyms
* (many) (l) (rare)Derived terms
* Law of multiple proportion (Law of Dalton) * multiple algebra * multiple conjugation * multiple exposure * multiple fruits * multiple orgasm * multiple starNoun
(en noun)- I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!
- Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.
Derived terms
* common multiple * least common multipleplenty
English
Noun
- We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty .
- During this season of distress, the discouragements to marriage, and the difficulty of rearing a family are so great that population is at a stand. In the mean time the cheapness of labour, the plenty of labourers, and the necessity of an increased industry amongst them, encourage cultivators to employ more labour upon their land, to turn up fresh soil, and to manure and improve more completely what is already in tillage
Usage notes
While some dictionaries analyse this word as a noun, others analyse it as a pronoun,Macmillan]or as both a noun and a pronoun.[http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/plenty oxforddictionaries.comHarrap's essential English Dictionary'' (1996)''Heinemann English Dictionary (2001)
Derived terms
* horn of plenty * land of plenty * plenteous * plentifulSynonyms
* abundance * profusionUsage notes
See the notes about the noun.Adverb
(-)- This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
- She was plenty mad at him.
- Seeing clichés mimicked this skillfully is plenty hilarious.
Determiner
(en determiner)- There'll be plenty time later for that
- Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.
Adjective
(en adjective)- if reasons were as plenty as blackberries
- Radishes are very plenty . Of cabbages a few heads of this year's crop have come to hand this week, and sold readily at quotations; [...]