English to English adjective
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quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity | | Example: have some milk some roses were still blooming having some friends over some apples some paper
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An adjective suffix having primarily the sense of like or same, and indicating a considerable degree of the thing or quality denoted in the first part of the compound; as in mettlesome, full of mettle or spirit; gladsome, full of gladness; winsome, blithesome, etc. | | source: webster1913
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Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent | | Example: we talked for some time he was still some distance away
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relatively many but unspecified in number | | Example: they were here for some weeks we did not meet again for some years
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remarkable | | Example: that was some party she is some skier
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(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | | Example: lasted approximately an hour in just about a minute he's about 30 years old I've had about all I can stand we meet about once a month some forty people came weighs around a hundred pounds roughly $3,000 holds 3 gallons, more or less 20 or so people were at the party
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