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ON A LARGE SCALE

Synonyms within Context: ON A LARGE SCALE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Greatness

Greatly; Adjective: much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds; incalculably, infinitely.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ON A LARGE SCALE

English words defined with "ON A LARGE SCALE": AbactionCadastral map, Cadastral survey, CopperasDetail drawingexterminatein large quantitieskill offmacroevolution, mass-produceOxalic acidPine wool, plantationtechnical, Thinolitewholesale. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ON A LARGE SCALE": Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques, contractual savingdelayed filling, dust precipitatorforced savingIon Exchange Treatmentlarge-scale reprocessingnickel carbonylporphyry copper depositto commercialise, to commercialize, tunnel blastingwellhole blasting. (references)

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Use in Literature: ON A LARGE SCALE

TitleAuthorQuote

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ON A LARGE SCALE

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Spraying on a large scale, however, may not be economically feasible and may prompt environmental or health concerns. (references)

However, evaluation of the efficacy and long-term consequences of these various strategies has not yet been carried out on a large scale. (references)

Little effectiveness research has been done. This limits the ability to estimate the impact likely to occur if the current generation of risk-reduction strategies, proven useful in efficacy trials, were applied on a large scale outside the research setting. (references)

Business

A few large companies, such as Fernandez Editores, produce educational supplies on a large scale. (references)

Muffled machine cabs, materials which absorb some of the vibrations and seats which can be adjusted to the shape of the operator's body are only some of the solutions being applied on a large scale. (references)

China plans to begin using clean coal technologies on a large scale during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2006-2010). Of the three technologies, IGCC is considered the most advanced, but it is also very expensive. (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

Candies and chocolates are also being manufactured on a large scale. (references)

Russia

Russian oil industry experts anticipate that major oil development projects (in the Sakhalin, Tyumen, Yamal Peninsular, and Timan-Pechora areas) under Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) terms will proceed during the next 2 - 3 years, providing funds and catalyzing technological upgrades for oil and gas field development on a large scale. (references)

Political Economy

RUSSIA

The banking sector has stabilized from its collapse in 1998, but still does not effectively intermediate savings to productive investments on a large scale. (references)

Travel

Morocco

Moroccan women are becoming more involved in business activities, although not on a large scale. (references)

Worker Rights

Honduras

The employment of children under the legal working age in the maquiladora sector may occur, but not on a large scale. (references)

Morocco

The persons arrested allegedly worked for a network that reportedly operated in Sale, Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Tangier, Tetouan, and Agadir on a large scale. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: ON A LARGE SCALE

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

William H. Taft

1909-1913In the Department of Agriculture the use of scientific experiments on a large scale and the spread of information derived from them for the improvement of general agriculture must go on.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: ON A LARGE SCALE

Language Translations for "ON A LARGE SCALE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

në shkallë të gjerë (full scale, large scale). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏على مقياس كبير. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

遍地開花 (blossom everywhere, spring up all over the place, to flourish on a large scale). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

suuressa mittakaavassa. (various references)

   

French

  

sur une grande échelle. (various references)

   

German

  

in großem Maßstab, großangelegt (large scale, sweeping). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

בק " מ"" '"ול (large scale). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nagyszabásúan (in a large way), nagyban (by the gross, in a big way, in a large way, in large, in the large, to plunge, wholesale), nagy méretekben (in a big way), nagy arányokban (in a big way). (various references)

   

Manx

  

dy mooar (greatly, very much). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onay aay argelay alescay

   

Romanian

  

pe scarã mare, pa scarã întinsã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

в больших масштабах. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

u velikoj razmeri (large scale, scale: on a large scale). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

i stor skala (in large, large scale, largely, wholesale). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

büyük ölçüde (highly, in large, pretty much), büyük çapta (wholesale). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: ON A LARGE SCALE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

laxe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: ON A LARGE SCALE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-e-g-l-l-n-o-r-s"

-2 letters: collagenase.

-3 letters: cellarages, organelles.

-4 letters: allergens, caesarean, canallers, carageens, cellarage, collagens, collegers, ensorcell, organelle, sloganeer.

-5 letters: acerolas, acreages, acrogens, aerogels, allegers, allegros, allergen, allonges, canaller, canellas, carageen, carnages, cesarean, clangers, clangors, cleaners, cleanser, collagen, collages, colleens, colleger, colleges, congeals, encloser, enlarges, enscroll, ensorcel, escarole, galleons, gasolene, gearcase, generals, glancers, gleaners, granolas, langrels, nacelles, recleans.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Quotations: Speeches
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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