Lot

Definition: Lot

Lot

Noun

1. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty".

2. A parcel of land having fixed boundaries; "he bought a lot on the lake".

3. Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you): "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion".

4. Any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle".

5. An unofficial association of people or groups; "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot".

6. Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random; "the luck of the draw"; "they drew lots for it".

7. (Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction.

Verb

1. Divide into lots, as of land, for example.

2. Administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Lot" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "Lotan", "wrapt up", "hidden", "covered", "myrrh", "rosin".

Date "lot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Archeological

Bible

Biographical Satire

Finance

Mathematics

Tips from 1870

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

LOT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Lot

Apportionment

Dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose; dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance; suerte.

Assemblage

Group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine, fasces, bale; seron, seroon; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook.

Intention

Noun: chance; lot, fate; (necessity); luck; good luck; (good); mascot.

Quantity

Armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful, capful; stock, batch, lot, dose; yaffle.

State

Noun: state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper; aspect; (appearance), dilemma, pass, predicament.

Crosswords: Lot

Afrikaan (destiny, fate, fortune, ill fate, luck), Albanian (dew, tear, teardrop, water-drop, weeping), Dutch (destiny, fate, fortune, ill fate, luck), French (batch, lot, parcel, prize), German (perpendicular, plumb, plumb line, plumbline, plummet, plump, solder, sounding line), Romanian (batch, group, lot, run), Scottish (hurt, pierce, share, wound), Welsh (lot).

Mr. Shepherd's read a lot of books, but you didn't need a Harvard degree to see this comin' a mile down the road (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

There've been a lot of changes in the law. (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman. Based on the novel by Gregory McDonald.)

Usually a lot less than people imagine (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick)

We didn't used to have to talk a lot, did we Daddy (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

She's been a lot better to me than any woman I ever knew (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; writing credit: B. Traven; John Huston)

All I'm saying, it takes a lot to love you (The Look Of Love; performing artist: ABC)

Where I see a lot of stars (The Sign; performing artist: Ace Of Base)

Dear matthew I like you a lot I realize you're in a relationship with someone (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

Oh boy we 'bout to make a lot of people annoyed (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

'Cause we never talk a lot (Whip Appeal; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface, Perri Smith)

You can observe a lot just by watching. (references; author: Yogi Berra)

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Active Socially: Drinks a lot. (references; author: unknown)

Keen Sense Of Humor: Knows a lot of dirty jokes. (references; author: unknown)

A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing. (references; author: unknown)

Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986)

Q (Le gros lot) (1974)

Beryl's Lot (1973)

A Hole Lot of Trouble (1971)

You Can Do a Lot with Seven Women (1971)

WHOLE LOT OF SHAKIN' GOIN ON  (performing artist: Jerry Lee Lewis )

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Books

• A Companion to the Crying of Lot 49 (reference)

• I Kissed a Lot of Frogs: But the Prince Hasn't Come (reference)

• Salems Lot (reference)

• The Crying of Lot 49 (reference)

• The Rough Guide Dordogne & the Lot (Rough Guides) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Lot Of Bunkum (reference)

• Common Lot (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Salem's Lot (reference)

• Heavy Metal Parking Lot (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love) (reference)

• P.D.Q. Bach: Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion (reference)

• Cleaned a Lot of Plates in Memphis (reference)

• He Left a Lot to Be Desired [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Parking Lot Music (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Shown is a suburban low brown building, with a parking lot, which houses a clinic. See artwork: GR-42. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

The photo shows a model of the Children's Inn in an overhead shot from the front. The model includes the Inn itself, a parking lot and surrounding space and trees. The Children's Inn houses families of children undergoing treatment at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Still a lot of tents but more and more trailers The camp at Benjamin Triangulation party of Carl I. Aslakson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Herring House site prior to restoration activities. The site consisted primarily of a parking lot. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A view of the bay headed for Sage Lot Pond. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Concrete livestock lot. Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Cows in lot with excessive manure buildup. Montcalm County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Sweet Corn. Fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmers Market held on a parking lot at USDA headquarters in Washington, DC. Market day is every Friday during the growing and harvest season. Credit: USDA.

Four hogs in a farm lot. Credit: USDA.

A corn-eastern gamagrass hybrid. Eastern gamagrass is a native grass with a gene pool that has a lot to offer corn, including resistance to cold and insects, as well as tolerance to drought and flood. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But when there was not room enough in the same place, for their herds to feed together, they by consent, as Abraham and Lot did, Gen. (Second Treatise of Government)

He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women. (reference)

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You can spend a lot of yourtime in litigation

So after a hectic week of believing that war was peace, that good was bad, that the moon was made of blue cheese, and that God needed a lot of money sent to a certain box number, the Monk started to believe that thirty-five percent of all tables were hermaphrodites, and then broke down

An infantry musket of large model had fallen to his lot, and he held it between his knees

Dante knew a lot of things

I wish he got a lot of hominy in his pocket

Next rolls Thomaston lime, a prime lot, which will get far among the hills before it gets slacked

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Health

Drink a lot of fluids. (references)

People who fast or lose a lot of weight quickly. (references)

The word “autism” has been in the news a lot lately. (references)

Business

The Greek car buyer has been through a lot of hardships. (references)

At the same time a lot of Western wheelchairs appeared in the market. (references)

Generally, new to market name brands need a lot of investment in advertising. (references)

Economic History

Norway

The Norwegian health care system spends a lot of money. (references)

Kazakhstan

Spending a little money on due diligence early on could save a lot of money later. (references)

Tanzania

While this has greatly improved the situation, there still remains a lot to be done. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

On November 25, their bodies were found in an empty lot in a highly populated area of the city. (references)

Minorities

Israel and the occupied territories

In August the municipality of Tel Aviv advertised for parking lot attendants; "military service" was a prerequisite. (references)

Trade

Argentina

Where the contents of a parcel are the same as those in other parcels of the same lot, one description on the packing list covering the lot will be sufficient. (references)

Travel

Ukraine

Other major international airlines with regular service in Ukraine are: British Airways, Finnair, Sabena, Malev, LOT, CSA, Turkish Airlines, Aeroflot, and Transaero. (references)

Bulgaria

Sofia is served by major European airlines including Air France, Alitalia, Austrian Air, British Airways, Czech Airlines, Lauda Air, LOT, Lufthansa, MALEV, Olympic, Swissair, and Turkish Airlines. (references)

Romania

International carriers currently serving Romania include Aeroflot (Russia), Air France, Alitalia, Austrian Airlines, Balkanair (Bulgaria), British Airways, CSA (Czech Republic and Slovak Republic), El Al (Israel), KLM (The Netherlands), LOT (Poland), Lufthansa (Germany), Malev (Hungary), Sabena (Belgium), Swissair, and Turkish Airlines. (references)

Worker Rights

Gabon

On December 12, three strikers were injured in clashes with police officers called in when strikers locked the gates of city hall and set fires in the parking lot. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Lot

Expressions using "lot": a fat lot ♦ a fat lot i care ♦ a fat lot of ♦ a fat lot of good ♦ a fat lot of good that was ♦ a fat lot of good that'll do you! ♦ a lot ♦ a lot more ♦ a lot of ♦ a lot of bags ♦ a lot of fuss about ♦ a lot of fuss about nothing ♦ a lot of money ♦ a lot of people ♦ a whale of a lot ♦ after a lot of umming and erring ♦ aged a lot ♦ an awful lot ♦ at the lot ♦ back lot ♦ bad lot ♦ be one's lot ♦ building lot ♦ cast in one's lot with ♦ child who cry a lot ♦ choose by lot ♦ count for a lot ♦ cover a lot of ground ♦ do a lot of entertaining ♦ draw by lot ♦ draw lot ♦ drawing by lot ♦ drawing of lot ♦ drink a lot ♦ fall to one's lot ♦ feed lot ♦ fuss a lot ♦ have a hell of a lot of trouble ♦ have a lot in common ♦ have a lot of faith ♦ have a lot on the ball ♦ have the hell of a lot of trouble ♦ Home lot ♦ it was his lot ♦ job lot ♦ know a lot ♦ lot fortune ♦ lot machine ♦ lot production ♦ make a lot of dust ♦ make a lot of money ♦ make a lot of smb. ♦ need a lot of pressing ♦ odd lot ♦ parking lot ♦ pay scot and lot ♦ play lot ♦ put a lot of faith ♦ put in a lot of work ♦ put on a lot of weight ♦ quite a lot ♦ quite a lot of ♦ rather a lot ♦ read a lot ♦ read a lot of ♦ read a lot of smth. ♦ resubmitted lot ♦ round lot ♦ sale lot ♦ scot and lot ♦ see a lot ♦ see a lot of ♦ spend a lot ♦ spend a lot of money ♦ such a lot ♦ surface parking lot ♦ take a lot of punishment ♦ take a lot out of ♦ take the whole lot ♦ talk a lot of trash ♦ that's the lot ♦ the lot ♦ the whole lot ♦ they are a bad lot ♦ think a lot of ♦ think a lot of oneself ♦ To cast in one's lot with ♦ To lot on ♦ to lot upon ♦ To pay scot and lot ♦ vacant lot ♦ what a lot ♦ what a lot there was to be seen! ♦ where one's lot is cast ♦ whole lot ♦ with a lot of fringe. Additional references.

Beginning with "lot": lot-depending, Lot-et-garonne, Lot-oriel.

Ending with "lot": parking-lot.

Containing "lot": not-a-lot-happening, sand-lot constitution.

Afrikaans

party (a lot of, celebration, festival, many, much, party, plenty, plenty of), baie (a lot, a lot of, many, much, plenty, plenty of, quite, very, very much). (various references)

Albanian

shumicë (host, majority, mass, masses, orgy, plurality, preponderance, quantity, superabundance, the million, thousand, weight), shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely), short (cup, draw, portion, weird), sasi (amount, body, greatness, intake, lump, mass, number, pack, quantity, quantum, run, sum, worth), pjesë (allotment, block, Cantel, Cantle, component, contingent, deal, divvy, helping, interest, kit, leg, length, limb, line, part, partition, patch, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, quotient, rate, scrap, section, segment, share, slice, snack, span), ngastër (location, Nick, parcel, patch, plot), ndaj në ngastra, grup (array, batch, body, bracket, camp, clutch, cohort, colony, confederate, coterie, crowd, gang, group, groupment, parcel, party, phalanx, platoon, squad, tally, team, troop, unit), fat (chance, circumstance, cup, destiny, dole, doom, fate, fortune, hap, happiness, hit, kismet, lottery, luck, mercy, portion, predetermine, share, spouse, weird). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلها, ‏مصير (destiny, fate, predestination), ‏نوع سلعة في المزاد, ‏نتيجة القرعة, ‏نصيب (destiny, fortune, luck, odds, portion, quota, share, slice, whack), ‏قسمة (division, fate, portion, share), ‏قطعة أرض (area, land, parcel, piece, piece of land, plot, shred, spit, tract), ‏قرعة (draft, toss), ‏قدر قسمه, ‏قدر (afford, amount, appraise, appreciate, assess, assume, be able to, be capable of, believe, can, consider, cost, count, deal, degree, esteem, estimate, evaluate, guess, magnitude, manage to, measure, number, predestination, predestine, predetermine, presume, prize, proportion, quantity, rate, size, suppose, think, treasure, value, volume), ‏حصة (allocation, allotment, class, class period, cut, dividend, lesson, part, percentage, period, portion, proportion, quantum, ration, share, slice, whack), ‏سحب قرعة, ‏ألقى (cast, cast down, deliver, dump, fasten, lay down, recite, set down, shift, throw, throw down), ‏دفعه مجموعه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

много голям брой, деля на части (whack), партида (batch, consignment, parcel, run, shipment), парцел (parcel, plat, plot), артикул (article, item, number), жребие, жребий (die), данък (aid, cess, duty, imposition, impost, scot, tax, tribute), много (almighty, amain, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, real, right, sight, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed), съдба (chance, destiny, dispensation, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, hap, kismet, line, luck, portion, star, weird), много голямо количество, компания (bunch, circle, companionship, company, crowd, party, push, set, society, tribe, troop), терен на студио, хвърлям жребие (cast lots, spin), разделям (break up, come between, disconnect, dispart, dissever, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, parcel out, part, partition, plot, portion, segment, segregate, separate, sever, share, slice, split, split up, sunder, uncouple, unjoin, win away), участ (doom, fatality, fate, portion), маса (accumulation, aggregation, body, bulk, concretion, crowd, gross, heap, heaps of, herd, lashings, lump, mass, oodles, pack, regiment, ruck, scad, shoal, slathers, stack, swarm, table, volume, volumes). (various references)

Chinese 

鬮 (lots), 批量 (batch), 全部 (Entirety, holistic, lots, totality). (various references)

Czech

los (draw, elk, lottery ticket, ticket), souprava (coordinates, ensemble, nest, set, suite), položka (article, item), podíl (contribution, holding, interest, part, participation, portion, quota, quotient, share), partie (game, region), parta (batch, bunch, crew, crowd, gang, outfit, set, team), osud (destiny, doom, draw, fate, fortune, kismet, predestination), množství (amount, bulk, many, measure, multitude, number, plurality, quantity, quantum, shoal, volume), údìl (destiny). (various references)

Danish

parti (faction, party, side), omsætningsenhed (contract size, minimum unit of trading, quotity, round lot, round lots size, trading unit), kontraktenhed (contract size, minimum unit of trading, quotity, round lot, trading unit). (various references)

Dutch

kavel (parcel), perceel (building, construction, parcel). (various references)

Esperanto

parcelo (parcel). (various references)

Faeroese

nógvur (a lot of, much), mangur (a lot of, much). (various references)

Farsi 

تقسیم کردن(باout), بخش کردن (Apportion, Assign, Share), بسیار (Abundant, All, Damn, Extra, Far, Galore, Manifold, Many, Much, Multifarious, Plenty, Precious, Somush, Sopping, Sorely, Very), بقطعات بسی , بهره (Portion, Share), جورکردن (Accord, Adapt, Assort, Concert, Consort, Sort, Suit), جنس عرضه شده برای فروش , سرنوشت (Destination, Destiny, Dole, Fate, Portion), سهم (Allotment, Arrow, Contribution, Portion, Proportion, Quota, Ratio, Ration, Scantling, Share, Slice, Whack), سهم بندی کردن (Portion), بخش (Borough, Branch, Canton, Commune, County, Department, District, Division, Installment, Item, Leg, Member, Parcel, Parish, Part, Party, Piece, Portion, Precinct, Quarter, Role, Sect, Section, Sector, Segment, Share, Zone), تقسیم بندی کردن (Breakdown), پارچه (Cloth, Fabric, Piece, Stuff, Textile), تکه (Bit, Dab, Fragment, Glimmer, Gob, Goblet, Item, Loaf, Lump, Morsel, Nub, Pane, Patch, Portion, Scrap, Shiver, Shred, Slab, Slice, Smidgen, Whit), قرعه (Grace, Lottery), قطعه (Bloc, Block, Dab, Fragment, Goblet, Internode, Mainland, Nugget, Pane, Panel, Passage, Piece, Plank, Plat, Plot, Section, Segment, Slab, Smidgen, Snip, Tract), قطعه زمین (Patch), قسمت (Arm, Canto, Chapter, Compartment, Department, Detachment, Division, Dole, Flat, Grist, Internode, Leg, Parcel, Party, Percentage, Piece, Plank, Portion, Proportion, Rasher, Ratio, Sect, Section, Segment, Share, Slice), قواره (Configuration, Shape), کالا (Article, Commodity, Merchandise, Object, Stuff, Traffic), چندین (Many, Multiple, Several, Various), محوطه (Close, Enclosure, Precinct, Run), توده انبوه (Cloud). (various references)

Finnish

tavaraerä (parcel), erä (amount, consignment, entry, heat, instalment, item, part-payment, period, quantity, round, set, share). (various references)

French

lot (inspection lot, round lot, sale lot). (various references)

German

partie (batch, catch, game, match, outing, part, party, piece, role, round, section, share), posten (article, entry, guard, item, job, picket, position, post, quarter, sentry, station), Parzelle (parcel, parcel of land, plot), menge (accumulation, amount, assemblage, bulk, bundle, crowd, deal, forest, heap, host, load, mass, measure, mob, multitude, pile, plenty, portion, quantity, quantum, quiverful, set, squash), los (aweigh, come on, destiny, fate, fortune, get going, go on, going on, happening, loose, luck, misfortune, off, portion, raffle ticket, ticket), haufen (accumulation, aggregate, batches, bunch, bundle, cloud, cluster, crowd, flock, gang, heap, huddle, load, mass, mob, mound, multitude, pile, slew, stack, throng). (various references)

Greek 

παρτίδα (dealings, portion). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקרה (accident, case, chance, contingency, event, fate, hap, happening, incident, occasion, occurrence), מזל (chance, destiny, fate, fortune, luck, luckiness, planet), מנת חלקו (cup, one's portion), יעוד (appointment, assignment, calling, designation, destiny, mission, promise, vocation), יהב (burden, fate, imposition, impost, levy, load), פיס (ballot, draw, lottery, raffle), פור, חלקה (piece of land, plot, portion), חלק (blank, even, fate, flat, fraction, glace, installment, level, part, partition, portion, section, share, slick, smooth, soft), כוס (cup, glass, goblet, portion, tumbler, vessel), גורל (cast, cut, destiny, fate, predestination). (various references)

Hungarian

telek (allotment, building plot, building site, Croft, ground, parcel, plot, realty, site, stance), sors (cast, chance, cup, destiny, fate, fortune, kismet, nemesis, predestination, weird), tétel (annunciation, clearance, heading, item, movement, sentence, setting, theme, theorem, thesis), sorshúzás (draw, sortilege, sortition, the draw, the lot), parcella (parcel, patch, plot, section of land, subdivision), osztályrész (allotment, cast, cup, cut, moiety, portion, share, snack), nagy mennyiség (bulk, deal, many, muchness, multitude, quantity, stack, volume), juss (right), árutétel (parcel). (various references)

Indonesian

undi, tanah kapling, mengundi, bagian (allotment, division, offshoot, part, place, portion, proportion, section, segment, share). (various references)

Italian

quantità (assemblage, batch, bulk, bunch, content, crowd, crush, deal, heap, mass, more, number, quantity, sum), lotto (site, state lottery). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

籤 (lottery), 土地　 (plot of land, soil), 土地 (plot of land, soil), 分 (branch, chance of winning, degree, detached, dividing, duty, kind, minute, odds, one percent, one-hundredth of a shaku, one-quarter of a ryou, one's lot, one's status, part, percentage, rate, ration, relation, segment, share, thickness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くじ (bygones, civil suit, lottery, past events, political operations, political operations and ceremonies of the Imperial Court), ぶん (branch, degree, detached, dividing, duty, kind, one's lot, one's status, part, rate, ration, relation, segment, sentence, share), とち (plot of land, soil). (various references)

Korean 

제비 (lots, swallow). (various references)

Malay

banyak (a lot of, many, much, plenty of). (various references)

Manx

skyoll (a large quantity, abundance, flourish, shoal), ram (many, much, plenty, umpteen), lane (at full strength, crowded, fraught, full, full-blooded, fully, gravid, loaded, much, plenary, replete, sound, swelling, total, unexpurgated, unexpurgated as edition), cuht, cronney (bass, fate, portion, share), cronchor (lottery, raffle, sweepstake). (various references)

Maya

solar. (various references)

Norwegian

loddtrekning, skjebne (destiny, fate, fortune). (various references)

Papiamen

muchu (a lot of, much, too, too much), hopi (a lot of, much, plenty of, quite, very, very much). (various references)

Pig Latin

otlay.(various references)

Polish

dużo (a lot). (various references)

Portuguese

lote (allotment, parcel, part, plot). (various references)

Romanian

lot (batch, group, run), tragere la sorţi (draw), sorţi (odds, star), soartã (chance, destiny, dole, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, future, hap, kismet, line, luck, portion, Rede, weird), scrisã (destiny, fate), sarcinã (assignment, burden, capacity, charge, faggot, gestation, load, mission, obligation, onus, pack, part, pregnancy, quantity, target, task, trouble, weight), porţiune (part, portion, proportion, sector, stretch), parte (aspect, corner, district, flank, fragment, hand, joint, movement, neighborhood, neighbourhood, part, Parthian, partition, party, passus, piece, proportion, region, sect, section, segment, share, side, snack, whack, zone), parcelã (parcel, piece), noroc (a bit luck, a piece of luck, blessing, chance, cheerio, fluke, fortune, god speed, good luck, hap, happiness, hazard, hello, hi, luck, luckiness, more power to you, piece of luck, prosperity, score, star, strike, success, your health), mult (a sight, by far, far, kindly, long, Mickle, much, muckle, umpteen), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty), destin (chance, destiny, dole, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, hap, line, luck), cu mult (far and away, much, out and away), cotã (altitude, elevation, quota, quotation, share, sum). (various references)

Russian 

судьба (chance, destiny, fate, fortune, kismet, luck, weird), участь (portion), участок земли (allotment, grounds, parcel, plat, plot), группа (bank, bevy, bunch, clump, cluster, cohort, covey, encircling force, gang, group, pack, packet, parcel, party, series, shapeup, team), налог (cess, contribution, impost, scot, tax), много (a good deal, a great deal of, a great number of, a large number of, a lot, a lot of, a whole lot, good deal, good deal of, great deal, many, much, plenty, plenty of), жребий, лот (lead, plummet, sound), партия;участок много, партия товара (consignment, instance, parcel, pitch). (various references)

Scottish

crannchur (casting lots, fortune). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zemljište (field, lair, land, plot, terrain), sudbina (destiny, doom, fate, fortune, kismet, rede), plac, parcela (parcel), mnogo (deal: a good deal, deal: a great deal, deal: a great deal of, great, lot: a lot of, lots of, many, much, multi, plenty, plenty of, quite a few, vastly, very), mnoštvo (array, crop, grist, heap, lashings, legion, lot: the lot, lots of, mass, million: the million, multiplicity, multitude, myriad, oodles, pack, plenty, raft, scads, shoal, slew), količina (amount, batch, content, quantity), kocka (block, checker, cube, die, tessera), žreb (draw). (various references)

Spanish

porción (crumb, dollop, dosage, Pat, portion, slice, wedge, whack), lote (allotment, batch, portion, rate, share). (various references)

Swahili

-ingi (a lot of, much), ingi (a lot of, much). (various references)

Swedish

parti (faction, game, hand, match, match - to merry, part, Parti, party, section, side), lott (allotment, fortunes, part, plot, share). (various references)

Thai

แบ่งออกเป็นส่วนๆ, โชคชะตา (fate, kismet, luck), บ่อยครั้ง, ส่วนแบ่ง (cake, quota, slice), สถานที่ถ่ายทำภาพยนตร์, สลาก, สิ่งของในการประมูล, การจับสลาก, ที่ดิน, จับสลาก. (various references)

Turkish

taksim etmek (carve up, divide, share out, split up), nasip (foreordination, grant), kura ile paylaştırmak, kader (destiny, dispensation, doom, fatal, fatality, fate, foreordination, fortune, karma, Moira, predestination, Providence), kısmet (chance, destiny, fatality, fate, foreordination, fortune, inning, innings, kismet, Moira, portion, predestination, shot), hisse (allotment, holding, interest, kickback, moiety, percent, portion, quantum, quota, share, shareout, slice), birsürü (a lot, lots of), bölüştürmek (allocate, allot, apportion, divide, mete, portion, portion out, serve out, share out, split, whack up), arsa (holding, land, patch, plat, plot), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references)

Turkmen 

tдleя (fate), ьlью (fate, part), bije (fate, fortune). (various references)

Ukrainian

розподіляти (allocate, apportion, cast, deal, dispense, distribute, give away, ladle out, mete, share), кидати жереб (toss up), набагато (heaps, out and away, tenfold), значно (considerably, estimably, far, gey, greatly, much, notably, noticeably, out and away, well), жереб (fate), ділянка (allotment, area, field, parcel, piece, township), доля (allotment, chance, cup, destiny, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, karma, nemesis, portion, predestination). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lô, việc rút thăm, vô số (countless, fifty, innumerable, innumerous, legion, multiplicity, multitudinous, quantity, uncountable), thăm, sự chọn bằng cách rút thăm phần do rút thăm định, số phận (destiny, kismet, weird), số mệnh mảnh, phận, phần tham gia số, nhiều (abounding, abundant, affluent, considerably, different, full, lousy, many, much, multifarious, multiple, numerously, spate, teemful, widely), hàng đống. (various references)

Welsh

lot, twysged (quantity), cwtws (portion, tail), coelbren. (various references)

nam. (various references)

fatum, fune, funem, funes, funibus, funis, sors, sorte, sortem, sortes, sortibus, sortis, sortium, vice, vicem, vices, vici, vicibus, vicis, vicum. (various references)

ashi. (various references)

qisma, qismat. (various references)

lotto. (various references)

lot. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "lot": lota, lotah, lotahs, lotas, loth, lothario, lotharios, lothsome, loti, lotic, lotion, lotions, lotos, lotoses, lots, lotte, lotted, lotteries, lottery, lottes, lotting, lotto, lottos, lotus, lotuses, lotusland, lotuslands. (additional references)

Words ending with "lot": allot, autopilot, ballot, bibelot, blot, brulot, cachalot, challot, chalot, clot, complot, copilot, coplot, counterplot, diglot, drylot, eschalot, feedlot, giglot, hallot, harlot, helot, immunoblot, inkblot, maillot, marplot, matelot, melilot, merlot, monoglot, ocelot, outplot, overplot, pilot, plot, polyglot, preallot, reallot, replot, sandlot, shallot, slot, sublot, subplot, underplot, wastelot, woodlot, zealot. (additional references)

Words containing "lot": alkalotic, allotetraploid, allotetraploidies, allotetraploids, allotetraploidy, allotment, allotments, allotrope, allotropes, allotropic, allotropies, allotropy, allots, allotted, allottee, allottees, allotter, allotters, allotting, allotype, allotypes, allotypic, allotypically, allotypies, allotypy, ankylotic, anticlotting, autopilots, axolotl, axolotls, backcloth, backcloths, balloted, balloter, balloters, balloting, ballots, beclothe, beclothed, beclothes, beclothing, bedclothes, bibelots, blotch, blotched, blotches, blotchier, blotchiest, blotchily, blotching, blotchy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elot, glott, hlot, latt, lct, ldo, leot, Lhota, lioht, liti, litt, lkot, llo, Loat, lod, lof, Loh, loi, loit, lom, lont, lonth, lopt, loq, lor, Lort, losh, Lota, lotd, loti, lotl, loto, lotr, Lotty, loty, lotz, lou, lov, lowt, loz, lst, lt, lto, lty, Luit, luq, lut, luth, luto, luty, lvo, Lyosha, lyt, ol, olet, olt, tlot, ulto, zlot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lo, to.

+1 letter: alto, blot, bolt, clot, colt, dolt, holt, jolt, loft, loot, lost, lota, loth, loti, lots, lout, molt, plot, rotl, slot, toil, tola, told, tole, toll, tolu, tool, volt.

+2 letters: allot, aloft, altho, altos, atoll, bloat, blots, bolts, botel, cloot, cloth, clots, clout, colts, dolts, dotal, extol, float, flota, flout, gloat, glost, glout, helot, holts, hotel, hotly, jolts, jolty, ketol, lento, lirot, litho, loath, lofts, lofty, loots, lotah, lotas, lotic, lotos, lotte, lotto, lotus, louts, lovat, molto, molts, motel, moult, notal, octal, octyl, owlet, pilot, plots, plotz, poult, rotls, sloth, slots, smolt, sotol, stole, stool, talon, teloi, telos, thiol, thole, toile, toils, tolan, tolar, tolas, toled, toles, tolls, tolus, tolyl, tonal, tools, total, towel, triol, troll, volta, volte, volti, volts, zlote, zloty.