The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning
as Jones alone was discovered, the poor lad bore not only the whole smart, but the whole blame; both which fell again to his lot on the following occasion.
Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will
to draw lots.
anything (straws or pebbles etc ) taken or chosen at random; "the luck of the draw"; "they drew lots for it"
A production run or batch that can be isolated from other runs and identified with a specific set of material, production facility and process characteristics
Generally, any portion or parcel of real property Usually refers to a portion of a subdivision
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
A lot of something or lots of it is a large amount of it. A lot of people or things, or lots of them, is a large number of them. A lot of our land is used to grow crops for export I remember a lot of things `You'll find that everybody will try and help their colleague.' --- `Yeah. There's a lot of that.' He drank lots of milk A lot of the play is very funny. Lot is also a pronoun. There's lots going on at Selfridges this month I learned a lot from him about how to run a band I know a lot has been said about my sister's role in my career
A defined quantity of product accumulated under conditions considered uniform for sampling purposes
If you do something a lot, you do it often or for a long time. They went out a lot, to the Cafe Royal or the The Ivy He talks a lot about his own children
Linkage Offset Table The per-ring table at the head of the combined linkage segment that locates each known segment's linkage information Indexed by segment number, each word is a packed pointer to that segment's linkage section
administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"
One or more objects/specimen lots acquired in a single transaction, as by bequest, field collection, gift or purchase, and covered by a single record in the accession file
Government lot or subdivision lot representing the boundary of a legally conveyable unit of land identified on a record document A lot may or may not be coterminous with an Assessor parcel
If people draw lots to decide who will do something, they each take a piece of paper from a container. One or more pieces of paper is marked, and the people who take marked pieces are chosen. For the first time in a World Cup finals, lots had to be drawn to decide who would finish second and third
a parcel of land having fixed boundaries; "he bought a lot on the lake" (Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction divide into lots, as of land, for example