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PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: lot

1	n	anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
2	n	your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
3	n	any collection in its entirety
4	n	(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
5	n v	a parcel of land having fixed boundaries divide into lots, as of land, for example
6	n	an unofficial association of people or groups

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: lot

n anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random

Synonyms:: draw

Type of:: object, physical object
a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow

n your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

“has a happy lot”

Synonyms:: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, luck, portion

Types:: show 14 types...; hide 14 types...; good fortune, good luck, luckiness
an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes; providence
a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures; bad luck, ill luck, misfortune, tough luck
an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes; failure
lack of success; prosperity, successfulness
the condition of prospering; having good fortune; blessing, boon
a desirable state; weakness
the condition of being financially weak; adversity, hard knocks, hardship
a state of misfortune or affliction; gutter, sewer, toilet
misfortune resulting in lost effort or money; hard cheese
bad luck; bankruptcy
a state of complete lack of some abstract property; bank failure
the inability of a bank to meet its credit obligations; crop failure
the failure of crops to produce a marketable surplus; dead duck
something doomed to failure

Type of:: condition
a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing

n any collection in its entirety

Synonyms:: bunch, caboodle

Type of:: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
several things grouped together or considered as a whole

n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

“a lot of money”

Synonyms:: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

Types:: deluge, flood, inundation, torrent
an overwhelming number or amount; haymow
a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation

Type of:: large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude

n a parcel of land having fixed boundaries

“he bought a lot on the lake”

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; car park, park, parking area, parking lot
a lot where cars are parked; building site, vacant lot
a lot on which there are no permanent buildings; sandlot
a vacant lot used by city boys to play games; used-car lot
a parking lot where a dealer in used-cars displays cars for sale

Type of:: parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract
an extended area of land

v divide into lots, as of land, for example

Type of:: carve up, dissever, divide, separate, split, split up
separate into parts or portions

v administer or bestow, as in small portions

Synonyms:: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, mete out, parcel out, shell out

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; allot, assign, portion
give out; reallot
allot again; deal
distribute cards to the players in a game; apply, give
give or convey physically; allow, appropriate, earmark, reserve, set aside
give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; allocate, apportion
distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; misdeal
deal cards wrongly; tread
apply (the tread) to a tire; administer
perform (a church sacrament) ritually

Type of:: give
transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody

n an unofficial association of people or groups

“they were an angry lot”

Synonyms:: band, circle, set

Types:: show 25 types...; hide 25 types...; car pool
a small group of car drivers who arrange to take turns driving while the others are passengers; camp, clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack
an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose; cohort
a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion); confederacy, conspiracy
a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose; Four Hundred
the exclusive social set of a city; horsey set, horsy set
a set of people sharing a devotion to horses and horseback riding and horse racing; jet set
a set of rich and fashionable people who travel widely for pleasure; company, party
a band of people associated temporarily in some activity; Bloomsbury Group
an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles; bohemia
a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style; brain trust, kitchen cabinet
an inner circle of unofficial advisors to the head of a government; loop
an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan); cabal, camarilla, faction, junto
a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue; junta, military junta
a group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power; maffia, mafia
any tightly knit group of trusted associates; faction, sect
a dissenting clique; fatigue party
a group of soldiers on fatigue duty; landing party
a part of a ship's company organized for special duties ashore; party to the action, party to the transaction
a party of people taking a role in legal proceedings; rescue party
a party of rescuers; search party
a party of people to search for someone; stretcher party
a party of people with stretchers to carry an injured person; war party
a band of warriors who raid or fight an enemy (used especially of Native Americans); galere, rogue's gallery
a coterie of undesirable people; hard core
the most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement

Type of:: social group
people sharing some social relation

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