单词 | a good deal |
释义 | > as lemmasa good deal a. A quantity, an amount; qualified as good, great, vast, or the like; formerly, also, as poor, small, little, etc. a great deal: a large part, portion, allowance, or amount (of anything), very much. a good deal: a considerable amount. Cf. lot n. (in a great lot, good lot, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] a great dealc1000 much dealc1225 on highc1400 little1483 good and proper1508 not smally1548 a deal1756 in a big way1840 more than somewhat1930 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount felec825 muchc1230 good wone1297 plentyc1300 bushelc1374 sight1390 mickle-whata1393 forcea1400 manynessa1400 multitudea1400 packc1400 a good dealc1430 greata1450 sackful1484 power1489 horseloadc1500 mile1508 lump1523 a deal?1532 peckc1535 heapa1547 mass1566 mass1569 gallon1575 armful1579 cart-load1587 mickle1599 bushelful1600–12 a load1609 wreck1612 parisha1616 herd1618 fair share1650 heapa1661 muchness1674 reams1681 hantle1693 mort1694 doll?1719 lift1755 acre1759 beaucoup1760 ton1770 boxload1795 boatload1807 lot1811 dollop1819 swag1819 faggald1824 screed1826 Niagara1828 wad1828 lashings1829 butt1831 slew1839 ocean1840 any amount (of)1848 rake1851 slather1857 horde1860 torrent1864 sheaf1865 oodlesa1867 dead load1869 scad1869 stack1870 jorum1872 a heap sight1874 firlot1883 oodlings1886 chunka1889 whips1888 God's quantity1895 streetful1901 bag1917 fid1920 fleetful1923 mob1927 bucketload1930 pisspot1944 shitload1954 megaton1957 mob-o-ton1975 gazillion1978 buttload1988 shit ton1991 c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 202 Micel dæl bewylledes wæteres on huniges godum dæle. c1230 Hali Meid. 29 Ha..ȝisceð þah after muchele deale mare. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13493 Hai þar was a mikel dele. a1400–50 Alexander 3703 Coupis..þai fande bot a fewe dele forged of siluir. c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 15 Safroun, & a gode dele Salt. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Rii/2 A lyttle Deale, parum. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 592 But one halfepeniworth of bread to this intollerable deale of sack? View more context for this quotation 1610 Bible (Douay) II. 2 Macc. iii. 6 The treasurie at Ierusalem was ful of innumerable deale of money. 1621 J. Mayer Eng. Catechisme 207 Where ignorance preuaileth, there can be but a poore deale of loue. 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 57 There being so vast a deal of room, that 40,000 people may shelter themselves in it. 1685 H. More Cursory Refl. Pref. sig. A2v, To make such a Tragical deal ado about it. 1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 223 A great Deal of Lead. 1771 B. Franklin Autobiogr. in Wks. (1840) I. 6 He was also a good deal of a politician. 1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 183 A most violent hurricane, which did an incredible deal of damage. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 100 There is a great deal of truth in what you say. 1874 J. C. Geikie Life in Woods (ed. 2) vi. 102 A good deal of rain having fallen. a good deal 6. Connected with the notion of ‘amount’ or ‘extent’: a great deal, to a great extent or degree, greatly, very much; a good deal, to a considerable extent or degree, considerably; a vast deal, vastly; †much deal, etc. extracted from dealn.1 a. as verbal adjuncts. ΚΠ 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 3 To lat down ane grete dele thair hie sailis. c1572 W. Forrest Theophilus 169 in Anglia (1884) 7 85 The iuste prayer much deale for to prevayle. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 200 I..bled..a great deal. 1845 T. Hood Last Man xxvii The beggar man grumbled a weary deal. 1887 G. A. Sala in Illustr. London News 19 Mar. I had travelled a good deal in earthquaking lands. b. as adjuncts of adjectives or adverbs in the comparative or superlative, or their equivalents. ΚΠ 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark x. f. lxv He cryed the moore a greate deale. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xiii. 713 Wilde Peares..do drie and stop a great deale more then the others. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 88 b The kitchin was a greate deale too little. 1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §160 To have them [letters] a pretty deal bigger than he should ordinarily write. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. vi. 28 You are a great deal too apt..to like people in general. View more context for this quotation 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood viii. 48 You take a great deal too much upon yourself. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 463 At a point a good deal lower than that at which they rose. < as lemmas |
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