Sundry vs Many - What's the difference?
sundry | many |
(obsolete) Separate; distinct; diverse.
(obsolete) Individual; one for each.
Several; diverse; more than one or two; various.
Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; miscellaneous.
(usually, in the plural) A minor miscellaneous item.
* 1865 , , Crosspatch, the Cricket, and the Counterpane ,
* 1924 March, Advertisement, ,
* 1931 June, Advertisement, ,
(in the plural, accounting) A category for irregular or miscellaneous items not otherwise classified.
* 1905 , William Mott Steuart (United States Bureau of the Census), Special Reports: Mines and quarries 1902 ,
* 1910 , William Mott Steuart, Thomas Commerford Martin (United States Bureau of the Census), Street and Electric Railways 1907 ,
* 2009 , Neville Box, VCE Accounting Units 3 & 4 , 4th Edition,
* 2011 , Robert Rodgers, Peter Lucas, Bookkeeping and Accounting Essentials ,
(usually, in the plural, cricket, chiefly, Australia) An extra.
* 1954 , Percy Taylor, Richmond?s 100 years of cricket: The Story of the Richmond Cricket Club, 1854-1954 ,
* 1998 , , The Art of Cricket ,
* 1999 , Ashok Kumar, DPH Sports Series: Cricket , Discovery Publishing House, India,
An indefinite large number of.
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*Bible, (w) xvii.4:
*:Thou shalt be a father of many nations.
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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, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them,.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A collective mass of people.
An indefinite large number of people or things.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=4, title= A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
A considerable number.
As nouns the difference between sundry and many
is that sundry is (usually|in the plural) a minor miscellaneous item while many is a multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.As an adjective sundry
is (obsolete) separate; distinct; diverse.As a determiner many is
an indefinite large number of.As a pronoun many is
a collective mass of people.sundry
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Adjective
Synonyms
* assorted, divers, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, heterogeneousDerived terms
* (l) * (l)Noun
(sundries)page 16,
- Here she kept her scarlet cloak, her Sunday shoes, her best cap and apron, and her steeple-crowned hat; but down at the very bottom, underneath her new checked petticoat, she found a little bag of sundries , which might serve her purpose, and which she sat down to examine at her leisure.
page 192,
- Our big free catalog illustrates and describes parts, equipment and sundries that our more than a million riders may need.
page 54,
- It pays you to buy from Bicycle Specialists We have been in business 40 years, and can offer you positively the lowest prices for high-grade bicycles, tires and sundries .
page 476,
- Miscellaheous expenses ,—This item includes rent and royalties of all descriptions, “taxes, insurance, interest, advertising, office supplies, law expenses, injuries and damages, telegraph and telephone service, gas, and all other sundries not reported elsewhere.”
page 181,
- In 1902 franchise values were largely carried as sundries , but it is a very common practice to charge these values to cost of construction and equipment.
unnumbered page,
- Any payment listed in the Sundries column must be posted individually to the appropriate ledger account.
page 105,
- The petty cash book classifies payments as petrol and oils, postage, office, sundries and GST paid.
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- The wicketkeeper for Williamstown had a bad day, as sundries topped the score with 30.
page 167,
- In the modern era I sometimes feel the emphasis has erroneously shifted towards placing unwarranted importance on how few sundries are recorded.
page 145,
- As for sundries , these are very often caused by erratic bowling or a nasty pitch.
many
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(wikipedia many)Determiner
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Usage notes
Many'' is used with plural nouns only (except in the combination many a). Its singular counterpart is much, which is used with uncountable nouns. ''Many'' and ''much merge in the comparison forms, which are more and most for both determiners.Antonyms
* fewPronoun
(English Pronouns)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}