{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "lɑt", "lɔt" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/lot.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/lot.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/lot.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/lot.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-Germanic *hlutą.\nCognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot, Dutch lot, French lot, German Low German Lott, Middle High German luz. Doublet of lotto. Related also to German Los." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A large quantity or number; a great deal.\nSynonyms: load, mass, pile\nto spend a lot of money\nlots of people think so\n1877, William Black, Green Pastures and Piccadilly, volume 2, page 4:He wrote to her he might be detained in London by a lot of business.\n1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt's Patients, page 52: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." }, { "mean": "A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.\nSynonyms: batch, collection, group, set\na lot of stationery" }, { "mean": "One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items." }, { "mean": "(informal) A number of people taken collectively.\nSynonyms: crowd, gang, group\na sorry lot\na bad lot" }, { "mean": "A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.\nSynonyms: allotment, parcel, plot\na building lot in a city\n1820, James Kent, William Johnson, editor, Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of Chancery of New-York‎, volume 5:The defendants leased a house and lot, in the City of New-York" }, { "mean": "That which happens without human design or forethought.\nSynonyms: chance, accident, destiny, fate, fortune\n1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book), Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 1:But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay." }, { "mean": "Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.\nto cast lots\nto draw lots\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Proverbs 16:33:\nThe lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.\nc. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :If we draw lots, he speeds." }, { "mean": "The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.\n1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's / Enough to bear.\n1725, Homer, “Book III”, in , transl., The Odyssey of Homer. , volume I, London: Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:He was but born to try / The lot of man — to suffer and to die.\n1749, Henry Fielding, chapter II, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A Millar, , →OCLC, book III: 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.\n1977, C-3PO in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.\nWe seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life." }, { "mean": "A prize in a lottery.\nSynonym: prize\n1694 November 22 (Gregorian calendar)​, John Evelyn, “”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, , volume I, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, ; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, , published 1819, →OCLC:In the lottery Sir R. Haddock one of the Commissrs of the Navy had the greatest lot, £3000 ; my coachman £ 40" }, { "mean": "Allotment; lottery.\n1990: Donald Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing; CN 2239)\nArchons 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." }, { "mean": "(definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.\nThe table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot.\nIf I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them." }, { "mean": "(historical) 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." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion." }, { "mean": "(US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon)." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }