lot

noun lots

1. A large quantity or number; a great deal. win the whole lot (of money); i.e. jackpot

   Similar: load, mass, pile

2. A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole. a lot of stationery

   Similar: batch, collection, group, set

3. 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.
4. informal A number of people taken collectively. a sorry lot

   Similar: crowd, gang, group

5. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field. a building lot in a city

   Similar: allotment, parcel, plot

6. That which happens without human design or forethought. But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay.

   Similar: chance, accident, destiny, fate, fortune, destin, doom, fatality, foredoom, foreordination, kismet, lot

7. 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
8. 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.
9. 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

   Similar: prize

10. 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.
11. definite 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.
12. historical 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.

Similar: abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload, bucketful, bucketload, butt-ton, bumload, buttload, cartload, crapflood, crapload, deal, fuckload, fuckton, fuckwad, gob, great deal, hantle, heap, hecatomb, helluvalot, horseload, lashings, load, lot · Opposite: modicum

verb lots · lotting · lotted

1. dated, transitive 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.
2. US, dated, informal To count or reckon (on or upon).

proper noun Lut

1. A nephew of Abraham in the Bible and Quran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
2. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin; rare today.

proper noun

1. error lua exec A department of Occitania, France. Capital: Cahors (INSEE code 46).
2. error lua exec A right tributary of the Garonne, in southern France, flowing through the departments of Lozère, Cantal, Aveyron, Lot and Lot-et-Garonne.