less
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/lɛs/]
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1. less (adv) — sense 1
Definition: Used for constructing syntactic diminutive comparatives of adjectives and adverbs.
Example: Randal is less welcome than Rachel but as her spouse we should invite them both.
2. less (adv) — sense 2
Definition: To a smaller extent or degree.
Example: The grammar book was less than (that is, not at all) helpful.
3. less (det) — sense 3
Definition: A smaller amount of; not as much.
Example: No less than eight pints of beer.
4. less (det) — sense 4
Definition: Fewer; a smaller number of.
Example: There are less people here now.
5. less (prep) — sense 5
Definition: Minus; not including
Example: It should then tax all of that as personal income, less the proportion of the car's annual mileage demonstrably clocked up on company business.
6. less (verb) — sense 6
Definition: To make less; to lessen.
Example: c. 1650, Patrick Gordon of Ruthven, A short Abridgement of Britane's Distemper, from the yeares of God 1639 to 1649, printed 1844 for the Spalding Club
Som of the wiser sort, divining upon this vission, attrebute to the pen-knyves the lenth of tym before this should com to pass, and it hath been observed by sindrie that the earles of that hous befor wer the richest in the kingdom, having treasure and store besyde them, but ever since the addittion of this so great a revenue, they have lessed the stock by heavie burdens of debt and ingagment.
7. less (adj) — sense 7
Definition: Lesser; smaller.
Example: Such too, to a greater or less extent, is the condition of the operatives of every denomination in England, which is the great workhouse of the world.
8. less (noun) — sense 8
Definition: A smaller amount or quantity.
Example: Less is better.
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