MANY vs SOME: NOUN
- A considerable number: with the indefinite article, and followed by of expressed or understood.
- A multitude; a great aggregate; specifically, the mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
- [The phrase a many (as well as a pretty many) is now rare or colloquial; yet a good many and a great many are still in common use.]
- See meiny.
- A large indefinite number.
- The majority of the people; the masses.
- A retinue of servants; a household.
- A large or considerable number.
- A considerable number.
- The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.
- N/A
MANY vs SOME: ADJECTIVE
- A quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number
- Being one of a large indefinite number; numerous.
- Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few.
- Many a one; many persons.
- The majority; -- opposed to the few. See Many, n.
- Too numerous; hence, too powerful.
- A large number taken distributively; each one of many.
- Amounting to or consisting of a large indefinite number.
- Being part and perhaps all of a class.
- Unknown or unspecified by name.
- Being a considerable number or quantity.
- Being a portion or an unspecified number or quantity of a whole or group.
- Being an unspecified number or quantity.
- Remarkable
- Relatively many but unspecified in number
- Relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent
- Quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
- One part … another part; these … those; -- used distributively.
- One and all. See under All, adv.
- A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of.
- Certain; those of one part or portion; -- in distinction from other or others.
- Considerable in number or quantity.
- A certain; one; -- indicating a person, thing, event, etc., as not known individually, or designated more specifically.
- About; near; more or less; -- used commonly with numerals, but formerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance.
- Not much; a little; moderate.
- Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number. Used also pronominally.
MANY vs SOME: ADVERB
- N/A
- Approximately; about.
- Somewhat.
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- Of a measurement; approximately, roughly
MANY vs SOME: PRONOUN
- A collective mass of people.
- A large number of persons or things.
- An indefinite large number of people or things.
- An indefinite amount, a part.
- An indefinite quantity.
- A certain number, at least one.
- An indefinite additional quantity.
- An indefinite or unspecified number or portion.
MANY vs SOME: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Being or consisting of a large number of units or individuals; numerous: often used alone, the noun being understood. See many, n.
- Being one of a large number; belonging to an aggregate or category, considered singly as one of a kind: followed by a, an, or another, used distributively. The phrase many a one, so used, was formerly many one without the article.
- Being of a certain number, large or small; plural (especially in the phrase the many as opposed to the one): after a term of qualification (as, so, too, and especially how in interrogations): often with the qualified noun omitted: as, how many people were there? how many will go? as many as the room will hold; not so many as before; too many men are dishonest.
- Much.
- Such a number indefinitely or distributively: as, he took so many of these, and so many of those, and so many of the others.
- (determiner) An indefinite large number of.
- (idiom) (as many) The same number of.
- A certain indefinite or indeterminate quantity or part of; more or less: often so used as to denote a small quantity or a deficiency: as, bring some water; eat some bread.
- In logic, at least one, perhaps all; but a few logicians sometimes employ a semidefinite some which implies a part, but not all.
- Hence A certain number of, stated approximately: in a quasi-adverbial use before a numeral or other word of number: as, a place some seventy miles distant; some four or five of us will be there.
- A certain person; one.
- A certain quantity, part, or number, as distinguished from the rest: as, some of them are dead; we ate some of our provisions, and gave away the rest.
- In this sense some is very commonly repeated, some … some (or, formerly, other some, as in Acts xvii. 18) meaning ‘a number … others,’ or ‘the rest.’
- The plural some is occasionally used in the possessive.
- Some, as originally used partitively with numbers (AS. feówra sum, one of four, etc.), has come to be an apparent distributive suffix, as in foursome, sevensome.
- A; a certain; one: noting a person or thing indefinitely, either as unknown or as unspecified.
- A suffix used to form adjectives from nouns or adjectives, as mettlesome, blithesome, lonesome, gladsome, gamesome, gruesome, quarrelsome, toothsome, troublesome, wholesome, winsome.
- As; so; ever: used indefinitely after certain adverbs and pronouns, like so, soever.
- In some degree: to some extent; somewhat: as. I am some better; it is some cold.
- In this sense often fallowed by a correlative other or another.
- Quantifier
- (determiner) A considerable quantity or number of.
- (determiner) A certain, an unspecified or unknown.
- (determiner) An unspecified amount of (something uncountable).
- (determiner) An unspecified quantity or number of.
- (determiner) A certain proportion of, at least one.
- (determiner) a remarkable.
MANY vs SOME: RELATED WORDS
- Often, All, Innumerable, Myriad, Few, Countless, Several, Umteen, Many an, Many a, Many another, Galore, Umpteen, Some, Numerous
- Or so, Close to, Approximately, Extraordinary, Unspecified, Roughly, Whatsoever, Around, Whatever, Much, About, Any, Both, Several, Many
MANY vs SOME: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Often, All, Innumerable, Myriad, Few, Countless, Several, Umteen, Many another, Many an, Many a, Galore, Umpteen, Some, Numerous
- Just about, Or so, Close to, Approximately, Extraordinary, Unspecified, Roughly, Whatsoever, Around, Whatever, Much, Any, Both, Several, Many
MANY vs SOME: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- It makes sense on so many levels and for so many purposes.
- Women and children are suffering in many parts of the world in many ways.
- My Theology of Church and Ministry Church can mean many things to many people.
- Islamabad opposes drone strikes and has told the US many times that they kill too many innocent civilians.
- Many clients in Sangli have approached us many times to avail the benefits of our services.
- Many victims in a criminal case receive restitution orders upon sentencing; however, many go unenforced.
- There are many, many others far too numerous to include in this brief article.
- There are many churches in the world today, and in those churches are many people and many kinds of theology.
- There are many travel places near by and so many lakes.
- We have published many articles and held many seminars about prompt payment across Canada, and have many more planned for Alberta specifically.
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- Each of the manufacturers comes in for some approving, and some disapproving, comments.
- She did do some modeling and some flight attendant work upon graduation.
- Certification or some proof of professional training is required in some states.
- While some states prohibit subrogation, some allow it.
MANY vs SOME: QUESTIONS
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