draw lots
抽签,抽签决定,抽奖,抓阄
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Definitions
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- : one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- : the casting or drawing of such objects as a method of deciding something: to choose a person by lot.
- : the decision or choice made by such a method.
- : allotted share or portion: to receive one's lot of an inheritance.
- : the portion in life assigned by fate or Providence; one's fate, fortune, or destiny: Her lot had not been a happy one.
- : a distinct portion or piece of land: a building lot.
- : a piece of land forming a part of a district, city, or other community.
- : South Midland and Southern U.S. a farmyard or barnyard.
- : a piece of land having the use specified by the attributive noun or adjective: a parking lot; a used-car lot.
- : Movies. a motion-picture studio and its surrounding property.
- : a distinct portion or parcel of anything, as of merchandise:The furniture was to be auctioned off in 20 lots.
- : a number of things or persons collectively: There's one more, and that's the lot.
- : kind of person; sort: He's a bad lot.
- : Often lots. a great many or a great deal: a lot of books; lots of money.
- : Chiefly British. a tax or duty.
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lot·ted, lot·ting.
- : to divide or distribute by lot: to lot furniture for sale; to lot out apples by the basketful.
- : to assign to one as his or her lot; allot.
- : to divide into lots, as land.
- : Obsolete. to cast or draw lots for.
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lot·ted, lot·ting.
- : to draw lots.
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- : Often lots. a great deal; greatly: Thanks a lot for the ride. I care lots about my family.
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Examples
There will undoubtedly be lots of changes, but as of press time, here’s a glimpse at some of the cinematic delights waiting for LGBTQ audiences.
So both of these companies may lose a lot of their overseas exposure.
I think this year has been unprecedented in a lot of ways, and when things are very different than what they have been, people are fearful.
If you’ve got a lot of that going for you, then striking oil can be a blessing.
“It helped me a lot having to run for a while,” Davies said.
I think a lot of it has to do with the attitude and the energy behind it and the honesty.
There was a lot of positive feedback from people interested in non-gender binary people.
If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.
A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.
And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.
If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.
Then the enemy's howitzers and field guns had it all their own way, forcing attack to yield a lot of ground.
I have seen a lot of Bolshevik propaganda and it is not very convincing stuff.