- What is the difference between largest and biggest?
To my mind, the largest is the one with the greatest surface area, the biggest may have a smaller surface area but be deeper and therefore contain more water and be 'bigger' Of course, one could just as well assign the other way but there IS a distinction
- The largest, greatest, highest or biggest number of
when comparing amounts of some things, but I've checked it in google which seems like "the largest, the greatest, the highest, and even the most number of " are actually used more often 1 Which do we usually use for comparing numbers or amounts of some things? Let's say, if there were 3 cities 1,000 people live in city A
- In mathematics, when referring to pure numbers is largest or biggest . . .
Biggest and largest are both acceptable for non-technical English, although in a mathematical context they may be confused with the greatest magnitude (absolute value) There are corresponding antonyms: least, minimum, or lower bound for the smallest value in a set, based on the less than relationship
- phrases - single largest or largest single - English Language . . .
"Largest single" is not incorrect (think "this is the largest single cell"), it just has a different meaning But I cannot at the moment conceive of a sentence with "the largest single contributor to" Therefore, in your examples, "the largest single contributor to" seems incorrect, although the full context could prove me wrong
- mathematics - greatest or largest number - English Language Usage . . .
Largest number is mathematically meaningless (since in the usual system of integers, adding one to any number produces a larger number) However, the term may refer to: Names of large numbers, for the largest numbers with names; Infinity, a concept which can be used as a largest number in some contexts
- grammar - Greatest number or highest number - English Language Learners . . .
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- Majority is defined as the larger part of something. Is the LARGEST . . .
You can use either larger or largest Logically, if you partition a group between all that are A, and all that are not A, you have two groups, and you can use the simple comparative larger to identify one of the parts You can also logically use the term largest There is some discussion of this here: stackexchange ELU *
- Is it fine to use the second largest when comparing 3 things
1) The second largest number of people lives in city B OR 2) The intermediate number of people lives in city B So the question is: which one is better? Or if there's a better way to express the intention, please suggest it Thanks :)
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