larger
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- adjective
- /ˈlɑrdʒər/
:
mayor
- Larger house, larger bank accounts.
- larger scale
- larger chunks
- larger sample
So we're going with slightly larger potatoes than normal.
- So we're going with slightly larger potatoes than normal.
- OK, so let's start off with some slightly larger cable loops.
- You want to lift heavy weights with larger muscle groups.
- So the longer you wait, the larger that hemisphere will be.
- That gives you much larger range in your ISO.
- And what you serve is a larger, a larger hole.
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The elephant is much larger than the other animals at the zoo.
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It's just much, much, much larger than we can see.
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May we, here and now, take a larger view of life.
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Yep, and it is, you can see here, larger neck, larger head.
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So we're going with slightly larger potatoes than normal.
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Larger, of course, with a higher degree of intelligence.
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Those arcs you see here are larger than our entire planet.
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But it is one of the larger candles we've seen.
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Larger hospitals need a full-time risk manager who may also be responsible for quality improvement.
Academic text (1999) -
Larger samples of children with ID selected using systematic sampling plans would provide more definitive results.
Academic text (2013)
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- Informal
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A person with a very strong, exciting personality who attracts attention
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Etymology
Larger is the form we use to compare two things from large, which comes from an old word meaning 'generous' or 'plenty'. So, larger means having 'more' size or amount than something else.