- 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
- 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
- word usage - Can we say majority to the largest portion when it . . .
In the world of U S politics a plurality is the largest piece of pie in a pie where no slice is bigger than 50% (2nd pie 45%) but only a slice bigger than half would be called a majority (1st pie 63%) I am not sure if this distinction is used outside of U S politics –
- 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
- grammar - Greatest number or highest number - English Language Learners . . .
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- word meaning - huge or large. Which one should I use? - English . . .
As far as grammaticality goes, it might be worth pointing out that superlatives larger and largest are relatively common words, but, for some reason, huger and hugest aren't used very often, and they even sound a little bit "off" to me When I Googled "huge machines," I got images like this one Note the large yellow tractor in the picture:
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