SOME vs MORE OR LESS: ADJECTIVE
- Remarkable
- Being an unspecified number or quantity.
- Being a portion or an unspecified number or quantity of a whole or group.
- Being a considerable number or quantity.
- Relatively many but unspecified in number
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Unknown or unspecified by name.
- Being part and perhaps all of a class.
- Considerable in number or quantity.
- N/A
SOME vs MORE OR LESS: ADVERB
- Approximately; about.
- Somewhat.
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- Of a measurement; approximately, roughly
- To a small degree or extent
- Almost
- Approximately
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
SOME vs MORE OR LESS: PRONOUN
- An indefinite or unspecified number or portion.
- An indefinite amount, a part.
- An indefinite quantity.
- A certain number, at least one.
- An indefinite additional quantity.
- N/A
SOME vs MORE OR LESS: OTHER WORD TYPES
- 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 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.
- 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 often fallowed by a correlative other or another.
- (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.
- N/A
SOME vs MORE OR LESS: RELATED WORDS
- Or so, Close to, Approximately, Extraordinary, Unspecified, Roughly, Whatsoever, Around, Whatever, Much, About, Any, Both, Several, Many
- N/A
SOME vs MORE OR LESS: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Just about, Or so, Close to, Approximately, Extraordinary, Unspecified, Roughly, Whatsoever, Around, Whatever, Much, Any, Both, Several, Many
- N/A
SOME vs MORE OR LESS: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- In addition to passing the exam, here are some common requirements imposed by some state massage licensing boards.
- Some legislative provisions provide that payments under the legislation are exempt from payment: for example, some pensions.
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- PDA closure occurs late in some cases has prompted some investigators to completely withhold retreatment.
- Some jurisdictions also tax some types of business personal property, particularly inventory and equipment.
- We provide here some basic information to help frame some of the issues.
- 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.
- Much less commonly, the disease is progressive from the start, with more or less continuous symptoms.
- Rosacea sufferers because they are generally less irritating, lightweight, and can be easily layered to create more or less coverage.
- By middle age, in contrast, our character is more or less set, and norms have less impact.
- The marauders in the train of an army were more or less in number, according as the chief was more or less severe.
- The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.
- Are they more or less fast, more or less heavy?
- As we spread the weight there are more, but less deformed, contact regions and the microscopic contact area is left more or less unchanged.
- So it was that prophecy became more or less prominent and more or less formal as the institution of monarchy rose and fell.
- The more or less it is split, the more or less your balance will be dynamically updated.
- They are more or less effective and more or less expensive.
SOME vs MORE OR LESS: QUESTIONS
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