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# bigger

«bigger» in Mova's school dictionary: **larger in size or amount than another** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (big, bigger, biggest — bigger is the comparative)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Bigger means larger in size or amount than another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#m1)

2) Bigger means older: «my bigger brother» (informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#m2)

3) Bigger means more important or more serious: «a bigger problem». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a comparison of two amounts or sizes; in maths, comparing numbers with > («is bigger than»); phrases «bigger than», «bigger and bigger», «the bigger the better»

### examples

- Which number is bigger, 45 or 54? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#x1)
- The bigger box holds 12 more toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#x2)
- Her garden is 3 times bigger than his. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#x3)
- The bigger piece weighs 2 kg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#x4)
- An elephant is bigger than a horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#x5)
- The balloon got bigger and bigger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#x6)
- 7 > 5 means 7 is bigger than 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#x7)
- We need a bigger table for the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#x8)
- Missing the bus is a bigger problem than being a bit late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#x9)
- My feet are bigger than last year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#x10)
- There was a bigger one near by. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/#x11)

### note

Signals a comparison: the bigger amount = smaller + difference. Trap: «3 times bigger» is usually read as 3 times as big. Double the g: big → bigger, biggest. The sign > opens toward the bigger number.

### In the corpora

- [Saving means putting money aside now for something bigger later, or for emergencies like a broken boiler.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/8/)
- [Everyone makes mistakes; owning up quickly makes them easier to fix, while hiding them tends to make them bigger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/16/)
- [Then the bigger worries: will AI take jobs?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/21-news-deepfakes-history/2/)
- [Sound designers make and mix many layers of sound so a scene feels bigger, scarier or funnier.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/24-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons/9/)
- [In the string family bigger instruments play lower: from highest to lowest they are violin, viola, cello and double bass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bigger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bigger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.