Sentence examples for meaning lot from inspiring English sources

The name of the festival was derived from the Akkadian pûru, meaning "lot".

The rivers themselves, incidentally, are an ancient ethnographic image meaning "lots and lots of blood".

Using the market price of sovereign bonds, the IMF thinks that European banks could have unrecognised losses of €200 billion, meaning lots more capital would be needed.

The bobbly pitch and poor challenges saw the game end in a whimper, meaning lots will be required to decide these teams' fate.

Both teams had played out 1-1 draws in their previous Group D matches, meaning lots will be required to decide who finishes second and will face Ghana.

Kohl's, which also missed forecasts, said that though the company had "improved performance" over Thanksgiving weekend, "a majority of our planned incremental marketing investment is in December," meaning lots of promotions.

All four matches so far have been 1-1, meaning lots will be drawn to decide the qualifiers if Wednesday's matches are identical draws.

By acting first, MySpace takes the lead and has a shot at being the long term winner – meaning lots of people use MySpace as the place to store data, and share it out to other applications from there.

There's no real Republican frontrunner, meaning lots of wild speculation will dominate the coming months.

There are also rumors that older sibs Kim and Kourtney may sit front row, meaning lots more media attention for Lavinge's otherwise less-than-prestigious line.

This year Britney is headlining Brighton Pride in the UK, so of course a bunch of straight Britney fans bought all the tickets meaning lots of queer folk can't go.