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big band

A band that is the size of an orchestra usually playing mostly jazz or swing music The big band typically features both ensemble and solo playing sometimes has a lead singer and is often located in a night club where the patrons may dance to its music The big bands were popular from the late 1920s to the 1940s Contrasted with combo which has fewer players...


big bang theory

The theory that the known universe originated in an explosive event the big bang in which all of the matter and energy of the universe was contained in a single point and began to rapidly expand and evolve starting as high energy particles and radiation and as it cooled over time evolving into ordinary subatomic particles atoms and then stars and galaxies According to this theory the four dimensional space time continuum which we perceive as our universe continues to expand to the present time but it is unknown whether the expansion will continue indefinitely or eventually stop or even reverse possibly leading to a contraction to a single point sometimes referred to as the ldquobig crunchrdquo The competing ldquoSteady state Theoryrdquo gradually lost favor in the 1980s and 1990s See also big bang...


Big Pot

Big Pot : main pot ...


Big Apple

New York City a nickname usually written The Big Apple...


big bang

The explosive event marking the beginning of the known universe according to big bang theory the beginning of time...


Big bellied

Having a great belly as a big bellied man or flagon advanced in pregnancy...


Bigness

The state or quality of being big largeness size bulk...


Little

Small in size or extent not big diminutive opposed to big or large as a little body a little animal a little piece of ground a little hill a little distance a little child...


Sel

Sel, denotes the bigness of a thing to which it is added, as Selwood, a big wood....


bigamy

bigamy [Medieval Latin bigamia, ultimately from Latin bi- two + Greek gamos marriage] : the crime of marrying someone while still legally married to someone else compare polygamy big·a·mist [-mist] n ...


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