SOME vs ANY: ADJECTIVE
- Remarkable
- 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.
- A certain; one; -- indicating a person, thing, event, etc., as not known individually, or designated more specifically.
- Not much; a little; moderate.
- About; near; more or less; -- used commonly with numerals, but formerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance.
- Considerable in number or quantity.
- Certain; those of one part or portion; -- in distinction from other or others.
- A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of.
- One and all. See under All, adv.
- One part … another part; these … those; -- used distributively.
- Being an unspecified number or quantity.
- Being a considerable number or quantity.
- Unknown or unspecified by name.
- Being part and perhaps all of a class.
- Quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
- Relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent
- Relatively many but unspecified in number
- Being a portion or an unspecified number or quantity of a whole or group.
- Whatever may be the state of affairs; anyhow.
- Some, of whatever kind, quantity, or number; as, are there any witnesses present? are there any other houses like it?
- One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be.
- Exceeding normal limits, as in size or duration.
- One, some, every, or all without specification.
SOME vs ANY: ADVERB
- Approximately; about.
- Somewhat.
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- Of a measurement; approximately, roughly
- To any degree or extent
- To even the slightest extent, at all.
- To any extent; in any degree; at all.
- To any degree or extent; at all.
SOME vs ANY: PRONOUN
- An indefinite or unspecified number or portion.
- An indefinite additional quantity.
- An indefinite amount, a part.
- An indefinite quantity.
- A certain number, at least one.
- Any one or more persons, things, or quantities.
- Any thing(s) or person(s).
SOME vs ANY: OTHER WORD TYPES
- 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 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.
- A certain person; one.
- 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.
- In logic, at least one, perhaps all; but a few logicians sometimes employ a semidefinite some which implies a part, but not all.
- 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 this sense often fallowed by a correlative other or another.
- 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.
- Quantifier
- 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.’
- (determiner) A certain proportion of, at least one.
- (determiner) An unspecified quantity or number of.
- (determiner) An unspecified amount of (something uncountable).
- (determiner) A certain, an unspecified or unknown.
- (determiner) A considerable quantity or number of.
- (determiner) a remarkable.
- In the singular, one, a or an, some; in the plural, some: indeterminately distributed, implying unlimited choice as to the particular unit, number, or quantity, and hence subordinately as to quality, whichever, of whatever quantity or kind; an indeterminate unit or number of units out of many or all.
- [In affirmative sentences, any, being indeterminate in application, in effect has reference to every unit of the sort mentioned, and thus may be nearly equivalent to every: as, any schoolboy would know that; any attempt to evade the law will be resisted: so in anybody, any one, anything, etc.
- Also, in negative and interrogative sentences, used absolutely: as, it didn't rain any here; did it hurt him any?
- In any degree; to any extent; at all: especially used with comparatives, as any better, any worse, any more, any less, any sooner, any later, any longer, etc.
- [In this sense it might formerly have a possessive.
- In the singular, one, some; in the plural, some: indeterminately distributed in the same uses as the adjective, and used absolutely or followed by of in partitive construction: with reference to persons, any one, anybody; in the plural, any persons.
- One or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential
- When any is preceded by a negative, expressed or implied, the two are together equivalent to an emphatic negative, ‘none at all,’ ‘not even one’: as, there has never been any doubt about that.
- (determiner) No matter what kind.
- (determiner) At least one; of at least one kind. One at all.
SOME vs ANY: RELATED WORDS
- Or so, Close to, Approximately, Extraordinary, Unspecified, Roughly, Whatsoever, Around, Whatever, Much, About, Any, Both, Several, Many
- Regardless, Possible, Another, Without, None, Particular, Neither, Nothing, Nor, Either, Anything, Immoderate, Some, Whatever, Whatsoever
SOME vs ANY: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Just about, Or so, Close to, Approximately, Extraordinary, Unspecified, Roughly, Whatsoever, Around, Whatever, Much, Any, Both, Several, Many
- Regardless, Possible, Another, Without, None, Particular, Neither, Nothing, Nor, Either, Anything, Immoderate, Some, Whatever, Whatsoever
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