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/sʌm/

det 5pron 4adv 3

Collocations

ADJ.

better, certain, evangelical, hot, kind, many, monastic, open

She always had some kind of excuse for why she couldn't come to the party.

VERB + SOME

come, give, know, knows, manufacture, say, set, want

I know some really good Italian restaurants in the city center.

SOME + NOUN

chocolate, christians, day, difficulty, extent, food, geoeconomics, kilos

I ate some chocolate after dinner last night and felt much better.

PREP.

across, in

I noticed some interesting differences across the two versions of the report.

ADV.

apart, especially

The team members stood some distance apart, waiting for the meeting to begin.

Definitions

pron

A certain number, at least two.

Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder.

Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

An indefinite quantity.

Can I have some of them?

An indefinite amount; a part. Used mostly with abstract and nonliving objects.

Please give me some of the cake.

Everyone is wrong some of the time.

Someone, a certain person.

Euery counseller extolleth counsell; but there is some that counselleth for himselfe.

det

A nonzero, unspecified proportion of (a bounded set of countable things): at least two.

Near-synonym: any

Some people like camping.

A nonzero, unspecified quantity or number of (an unbounded set of countable things).

Near-synonym: any

Would you like some grapes?

An unspecified amount of (something uncountable).

Near-synonym: any

Would you like some water?

A certain, an unspecified or unknown.

I've just met some guy who said he knew you.

The sequence S converges to zero for some initial value v.

A considerable quantity or number of.

He had edited the paper for some years.

He stopped working some time ago.

adv

Of a measurement: approximately, roughly.

I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos.

Some 30,000 spectators witnessed the feat.

To a certain extent, or for a certain period.

They walked some and talked some.

Somewhat, a little.

I felt some better and continued taking the preparation through all that day, still ad libitum, and by evening, twenty-four hours after I began its use, felt considerably improved.

Have felt some better to-day than yesterday but not quite normal. A little nervous all day. Slept better than previous night, but not so well as usual, for about 7 hrs.

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Synonyms

adverb — (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

catch some z's

To sleep.

His boss found him catching some z's at his desk yesterday.

some people

Expresses disapproval at the actions of a person; a disapproving response to a person doing something silly, bizarre, nonsensical or ill-mannered.

Person A: You do realise that she has just jumped on the table and started shouting at the rest of the people in the room, don’t you?

and then some

Used to confirm preceding utterance, while implying that what was said or asked is an understatement.

It created a disruption, and then some.

throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick

To attempt the same strategy or technique (or similar ones) often enough, and, even if the general standard is poor, sometimes one will be successful.

2001, And still no one is shouting stop. read in The Kingdom archives at https://web.archive.org/web/20060117103951/http://archives.tcm.ie/thekingdom/2001/01/19/story7064.asp on 02

throw dirt enough, and some will stick

If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.

1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at https://web.archive.org/web/20060903061313/http://wesley.nnu.edu/joh

Example Bank

Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder.

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Can I have some of them?

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Near-synonym: any

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Some people like camping.

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Many people, especially some evangelical Christians, have been less than optimistic about the Potter influence.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, some is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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