Big Definition–adjective | 1. | large, as in size, height, width, or amount: a big house; a big quantity. | | 2. | of major concern, importance, gravity, or the like: a big problem. | | 3. | outstanding for a specified quality: a big liar; a big success. | | 4. | important, as in influence, standing, or wealth: a big man in his field. | | 5. | grown-up; mature: big enough to know better. | | 7. | doing business or conducted on a large scale; major in size or importance: big government. | | 8. | consisting of the largest or most influential companies in an industry: Big steel wants to lower prices, but the smaller mills don't. | | 9. | Informal. known or used widely; popular: Nouvelle cuisine became big in the 1970s. | | 10. | magnanimous; generous; kindly: big enough to forgive. | | 11. | boastful; pompous; pretentious; haughty: a big talker. | | 12. | loud; orotund: a big voice. | | 13. | (of clothing or a clothing design) made of or distinguished by voluminous fabric that is loosely or softly shaped and fitted: a big shirt; the big look. | | 14. | (of a wine) having more than average flavor, body, and alcoholic content. | | 15. | filled; brimming: eyes big with tears. | | 16. | Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. pregnant. | | 17. | Obsolete. very strong; powerful. | –adverb | 18. | Informal. boastfully; pretentiously: to act big; to talk big. | | 19. | Informal. with great success; successfully: to go over big. | –noun | 20. | the bigs, Sports Slang. the highest level of professional competition, as the major leag
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1. | be big on, to have a special liking or enthusiasm for: Mother is big on family get-togethers. | | 22. | big with child. great (def. 23). | |
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Screen Definition–noun | 1. | a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc. | | 2. | a permanent, usually ornamental partition, as around the choir of a church or across the hall of a medieval house. | | 3. | a specially prepared, light-reflecting surface on which motion pictures, slides, etc., may be projected. | | 4. | motion pictures collectively or the motion-picture industry. | | 5. | Electronics, Television. the external surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube of a television set, radar receiver, etc., on which an electronically created picture or image is formed. | | 6. | Computers. | a. | Also called video screen. the portion of a terminal or monitor upon which information is displayed. | | | 7. | anything that shelters, protects, or conceals: a screen of secrecy; A screen of fog prevented our seeing the ship. | | 8. | a frame holding a mesh of wire, cloth, or plastic, for placing in a window or doorway, around a porch, etc., to admit air but exclude insects. | | 9. | a sieve, riddle, or other meshlike device used to separate smaller particles or objects from larger ones, as for grain or sand. | | 10. | a system for screening or grouping people, objects, etc. | | 11. | Military. a body of troops sent out to protect the movement of an army. | | 12. | Navy. a protective formation of small vessels, as destroyers, around or in front of a larger ship or ships. | | 13. | Physics. a shield designed to prevent interference between various agencies: electric screen. | | 15. | Photography. a plate of ground glass or the like on which the image is br
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