Difference between numbers and small
Definitions
noun
- an illegal daily lottery
Examples
Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails.
Equally badly behaved, but a little calmer and better informed, were the massive numbers from the labor unions.
Striking that balance between old and new will always be difficult, but after a few numbers here, memories of their old bandmaster begin to fade.
Definitions
adjective
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- low or inferior in station or quality
noun
- the slender part of the back
- a garment size for a small person
adverb
- on a small scale
Examples
Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees.
A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
