lot
verb
- to divide items into groups or lots
noun
- unit of area
- a considerable quantity
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /lɒt/ / /lɑt/ / /lɔt/
name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Lot.
- A department of Occitania, France. Capital: Cahors (INSEE code 46).
- A right tributary of the Garonne, in southern France, flowing through the departments of Lozère, Cantal, Aveyron, Lot and Lot-et-Garonne.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlut, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą. Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot, Dutch lot, French lot, German Low German Lott, Middle High German luz. Doublet of lotto. Related also to German Los.
- A large quantity or number; a great deal.
“win the whole lot (of money); i.e. jackpot”
“lots of people think so”
- A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.
“a lot of stationery”
“The Lord divided the land to the tribes, each according to his lot.”
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
“This is an important lot. Very sorry, but we can't go on with the selling until we know more where we are.”
- A number of people taken collectively.
“a sorry lot”
“a bad lot”
- A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
“a building lot in a city”
“The defendants leased a house and lot, in the City of New-York”
- That which happens without human design or forethought.
“But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay.”
- Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
“to cast lots”
“to draw lots”
- The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
“O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's / Enough to bear.”
“He was but born to try / The lot of man — to suffer and to die.”
- A prize in a lottery.
“In the lottery[…] Sir R. Haddock one of the Commissrs of the Navy had the greatest lot, £3000 ; my coachman £ 40”
- Allotment; lottery.
“Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot. Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit.”
- All members of a set; everything.
“The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot.”
“If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them.”
- An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlut, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą. Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot, Dutch lot, French lot, German Low German Lott, Middle High German luz. Doublet of lotto. Related also to German Los.
- To allot; to sort; to apportion.
“Sometimes the contractor would lot the work out to some sub-contractor, and he, after the men had worked for a month, would run away, and we should never see the colour of his money.”
- To count or reckon (on or upon).