|
Từ điển LongMan Dictionary
largely
large‧ly S3 W2 /ˈlɑːdʒli $ ˈlɑːr-/ adverb [Word Family: noun: enlargement, enlarger; adjective: large, largish; verb: enlarge; adverb: largely] mostly or mainly: ▪ The state of Nevada is largely desert. ▪ It had been a tiring day, largely because of all the tedious waiting. • • • THESAURUS ▪in general used when saying that something is usually true in most situations, or about most people or things : ▪ In general, temporary jobs are less well-paid. ▪ In general, the bigger a company becomes, the harder it is to maintain customer satisfaction. ▪generally another way of saying ‘in general’, which is often used before a verb. Generally can also be used to say that most people have a particular opinion : ▪ Women generally live longer than men. ▪ Newton is generally regarded as the father of modern science. ▪generally speaking/as a rule other ways of saying ‘in general’ : ▪ Generally speaking, large breeds of dog are becoming less popular. ▪ He’s a singer who doesn’t do interviews, as a rule. ▪ The graduates are, generally speaking, a confident and articulate group of young people. ▪mostly/mainly/largely used when saying that something is true about most people or things, or about most of something. Largely is slightly more formal than mostly or mainly : ▪ The disease mainly affects women. ▪ Their attempts were largely unsuccessful. ▪ The students were mostly French and German, but there were a few Japanese students too. ▪for the most part used when saying that something is true in most cases, but not in every case : ▪ These problems have for the most part been resolved. ▪ For the most part, the gangs were made up of boys aged between 11 and 16. ▪by and large/on the whole used for saying that something is true in most ways or in most cases : ▪ The project was, by and large, a success. ▪ On the whole, people were very friendly.
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES consist mainly/largely/primarily of sb/sth ▪ The audience consisted mainly of teenagers. due largely to ▪ The restaurant’s success was due largely to its new manager. highly/purely/largely speculative ▪ a purely speculative theory about life on other planets largely symbolic ▪ The vote was largely symbolic. largely unaware ▪ The public was largely unaware of the security measures. largely unsuccessful ▪ The advertising campaign has been largely unsuccessful. largely/totally/completely etc irrelevant ▪ His age is completely irrelevant if he can do the job. partly/largely/entirely etc to blame ▪ Television is partly to blame. virtually/fairly/largely meaningless COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADJECTIVE dependent ▪ The force of this affirmation, however, is largely dependent upon the continuous union of man and nature in the Over-Soul. ▪ Maturation studies, based on geochemical analysis, demonstrate that gas-generative maturity is largely dependent on Jurassic burial. ▪ Huge growth in the service sector is largely dependent on people and not machines. ▪ Again the permeability is largely dependent upon sediment sorting and the presence of cements, or authigenic growths in the pore throats. ▪ This, however, is highly speculative and largely dependent on a perpetual bull market. ▪ Selection of patients for treatment is largely dependent upon referral from a district centre. ▪ Even at the best companies, family friendliness is often episodic, largely dependent on relationships with an immediate supervisor. due ▪ The remainder were largely due to sewage, industrial pollution or oil spillages. ▪ That was largely due to the centralized organization mandated for all Air Force wings-and its damaging results. ▪ Global warming is largely due to the loading of the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. ▪ In my view, this is largely due to the fact that he saw purpose very much in terms of particular design. ▪ Officials said the increase was largely due to extra holidays abroad encouraged by the favourable exchange rate of sterling. ▪ Thus, present-day surface relief is largely due to movements that occurred during and since the Tertiary Period. ▪ The improved forecast is largely due to lower projected costs for Medicare and Medicaid and welfare reform. irrelevant ▪ The identity of the genitor in such cases is largely irrelevant. ▪ The comfort, or lack of it, at training camp is largely irrelevant. ▪ Where obligation is the key, policy is largely irrelevant. ▪ The precise timing of this process is largely irrelevant. ▪ By the late 1980s, debates surrounding the rate question became largely irrelevant. ▪ If films have little peripheral information in them then it may be that memory for such information is largely irrelevant. ▪ From the child's viewpoint arguments over management are largely irrelevant. ▪ Men are now recruited into a national labour pool and their home base is largely irrelevant to where they take ships. responsible ▪ The apparent movement of both the lion and the Cupids along an imaginary, oblique line is largely responsible for this effect. ▪ Reagan, with his extraordinary knack for bringing people together, was largely responsible for this. ▪ As this portrait indicates, Margaret Massingberd was largely responsible for creating much of the garden areas as they still exist today. ▪ The government said the change to chain weights was largely responsible for the higher estimate. ▪ A grand little chap called Willie Workman was largely responsible. ▪ By all accounts, technology is largely responsible for fueling the self-employment trend among the disabled. ▪ The canal engineer William Jessop was largely responsible for this pioneering work which had been in prospect ever since the Stuart period. ▪ The logical result of such thinking is that parents feel largely responsible when things go wrong. symbolic ▪ The government has made minor cuts on welfare and some changes of a largely symbolic nature. ▪ In fact, the measure has so many exceptions that some Republicans said its value is largely symbolic. ▪ But to describe the bill as largely symbolic is not to diminish its importance. ▪ The registry is largely symbolic and confers none of the legal rights and obligations of marriage. ▪ Because Westminster retains responsibility for security, the vote was largely symbolic. unknown ▪ Although largely unknown in Britain, Lafaille has an impressive rock climbing curriculum vitae. ▪ But on the national level they are novices, limited specialists or largely unknown quantities. ▪ He possesses non-physical properties and energies that are still largely unknown and uncharted by traditional science. ▪ Rick Lazio, 42, a moderate from Long Island who is largely unknown statewide but carries little obvious baggage. ▪ He was largely unknown to football when last June he was introduced to Edwards, the chairman and majority shareholder of United. ▪ Tributes were largely unknown to Ford's injected Cologne V6, but it is a worthy enough trooper. ▪ Derrick Smith, remains largely unknown even on this Marine Corps base where he is stationed. VERB based ▪ Resistance, ill-organized, ill-informed and largely based on non-quantifiable attachment to place, has little effect. ▪ But he conceded that it was a business based largely on commission. ▪ The Prima Pasta operation is based largely within the radius of the M25. ▪ Louis, Kerry Collins of Carolina is the choice, based largely on what he did against the 49ers last season. ▪ This practice is based largely on the belief that intravenous heparin increases coronary artery patency rates. ▪ Smith ties her transformation to a training program developed by de Bruin and based largely on track-and-field principles. ▪ The theory of housing classes is based largely on subdivisions within these two main groups. ▪ He argued that the international monetary system, based largely on the dollar, contained certain inherent contradictions. confine ▪ At a local level, Gloucester's changes were largely confined to filling gaps left by the removal of the Woodvilles. ▪ Until now it had been thought that the problem was largely confined to Devon and Cornwall. ▪ Polls suggest that cultural snobbery is largely confined to intellectuals. ▪ The single-subject academic course is largely confined to the universities, reflecting their traditions of specialized scholarship and their stronger research orientation. ▪ These institutions were concerned mainly with gymnastics and confined largely to women until after the Second World War. ▪ Prior to 1914 divorce was largely confined to the middle and upper classes. ▪ Most trade unionists had been indifferent to any political theory beyond an instinctive syndicalism which was itself largely confined to industrial disputes. ▪ A second advantage of the approach is that it is largely confined to observable empirical phenomena. consist ▪ They are about 8 microns in diameter and probably consist largely of chlorides, that is, of compounds containing chlorine. ▪ Many of the pills and capsules which are sold to slimmers as appetite suppressants consist largely of methyl cellulose. ▪ The diet of the red kite seems to consist largely of carrion and some birds. ▪ A child's education may consist largely of the mastery of traditional skills to be done in a traditional way. ▪ Miscellaneous assets largely consist of payments owed but not yet received from other banks. ▪ For example, a site may consist largely of a number of postholes, all dating to the Neolithic period. depend ▪ On the degree of evaporation or reduction to which the tomatoes are subjected the flavour of the sauce very largely depends. ▪ This one could depend largely on which Louisville shows up and whether Rutland can show up at all. ▪ This depends largely on the quarantine situation. ▪ The identification of a metamorphic rock depends largely on recognition of foliation and other textures. ▪ Their development as a popular force largely depends on the musical direction they follow. ▪ The differences in opinion depend largely on where economists look for evidence. ▪ The response to this depends largely on your point of view. ▪ The number of education administrators employed depends largely on State and local expenditures for education. determine ▪ This will be largely determined by whether you are right- or left-handed. ▪ What he makes of this inheritance largely determines his place in history. ▪ The progression is determined largely not by time sequence, but by other connections. ▪ The greatest influence was, of course, the aptitude the student brought to school-something. determined largely by family background. ▪ Choice of an expansion card, with a particular processor, will be determined largely by intended application for the device. ▪ Invasion and metastasis largely determine the clinical course of colorectal carcinomas. ▪ Thus, what was viewed as acceptable was determined largely by the centres' main client group - elderly disabled people. ▪ On the one hand, there are those who have argued that this variation is largely determined by inherited potential. ignore ▪ She would rage at the boys; they largely ignored her. ▪ Forbes was largely ignored until he rose in the polls. ▪ It seemed that our genuine concerns and grievances were largely ignored and we were dismissed as being out of date and out of touch. ▪ The Dayton agreement already guarantees refugees the right to return home, but the provision has been largely ignored. ▪ The debate on the role of the state has largely ignored the fact that state means more than government. ▪ The great scholars also are largely ignored for their craft skills and precise goals in scholarship. ▪ Most of these effects are simply curiosities for the network engineer and are largely ignored by the majority of designers. ▪ The federal army in the South, in keeping with the 1877 Compromise, largely ignored instances of racial violence. remain ▪ A modern police force was established in the 1860s, but until 1906 it remained largely confined to urban areas. ▪ But as an institution, Congress remains largely detached from foreign affairs. ▪ And it did so in a way that allowed the traditional culture to remain largely intact. ▪ Significantly, in certain cultural enclaves women remain largely unaffected by the work-family conflict. ▪ The birds are still around, but remain largely aloof in the bushes. ▪ Derrick Smith, remains largely unknown even on this Marine Corps base where he is stationed. ▪ This comparison is possible because the list size remained largely unchanged over the two year study. ▪ A component with a small value for D remains largely adsorbed on the stationary phase. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Most of the cities depend largely on hydroelectric power. ▪ Our church's congregation is largely made up of young families with children.
|
|
▼ Từ liên quan / Related words
|
|