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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heap |
| Synonyms: | a lot*, abundance, agglomeration, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, bank, batch, bulk, bunch, bundle, cargo, clump, cluster, collection, concentration, congeries, deposit, fullness, gathering, gobs, great deal, harvest, haul, hill, hoard, jillion, jumble, load, lot, lots, lump, mass, million, mint, mound, mountain*, much, multiplicity, ocean, oodles*, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, ream, scad, stack, stock, stockpile, store, sum, thousand, ton, total*, trillion, volume, whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quantity |
| Synonyms: | aplenty, bags, bulk, bundle, chunk, expanse, extent, flock, gob, heap, hunk, jillion, load, lot, magnitude, mass, measure, mess*, mint, mucho, number, oodles*, pack, passel, peck, pile, scads, score, slat, slew, supply, ton, volume, whopper |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | countless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | innumerable |
| Synonyms: | bags of, endless, gobs, heap*, immeasurable, incalculable, infinite, innumerous, jillion, legion, limitless, loads, lots of, many, measureless, mess*, mint, mucho, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, oodles*, passel of, peck, pile, raft, scads, slew, stack, tidy sum, umpteen, uncountable, uncounted, untold, wad, whole slew, zillion |
| Antonyms: | calculable, countable, counted, limited, measurable, numbered, numerable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deflect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bounce off; turn aside |
| Synonyms: | avert, bend, cover up, curve, deviate, disperse, diverge, divert, fend, glance off, hold off, hook, keep off, parry, pivot, ricochet, sheer, shy, sidetrack, slew, slip, swerve, twist, veer, volte-face, wheel, whip, whirl, wind |
| Main Entry: | inlet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arm of the sea |
| Synonyms: | basin, bay, bayou, bight, canal, channel, cove, creek, delta, entrance, estuary, firth, fjord, gulf, harbor, ingress, loch, narrows, passage, slew, slough, sound, strait |
| Main Entry: | multitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
| Synonyms: | aggregation, army, assemblage, assembly, collection, commonalty, concourse, congregation, crowd, crush, drove, great number, heap, herd, horde, host, infinitude, infinity, jam*, legion, loads, lot, lots*, majority, mass, mob, much, myriad, number, numbers, ocean*, oodles*, people, plenitude, plurality, populace, proletariat, public, push*, quantity, scores, sea, slew, swarm, throng, turnout |
| Antonyms: | handful, portion, single, zero |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | myriad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a lot |
| Synonyms: | army, flood, heap, horde, host, loads, mint, mountain*, multitude, oodles*, scores, slew, stacks, swarm, thousands |
| Antonyms: | little |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | number |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aggregate, bunch |
| Synonyms: | abundance, amount, caboodle, collection, company, conglomeration, crowd, estimate, flock, horde, jillion, lot, manifoldness, many, multitude, plenitude, plenty, product, quantity, slew, sum, throng, total, totality, umpteen, volume, whole, zillion |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money numerals are symbols; numbers are the things that numerals symbolize |
| Antonyms: | one |
| Main Entry: | wad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ball of something |
| Synonyms: | back, block, boodle, bunch, bundle, chunk, clump, cushion, fortune, gathering, heap, hunk, lining, lump, mass, mint, nugget, packet, pad, pile, plug, pot, ream, roll, slew, stuff, tuft, wadding |
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