- less(a): (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree; "of less importance"; "less time to spend with the family"; "a shower uses less water"; "less than three years old"
- used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; "less interesting"; "less expensive"; "less quickly"
- (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"
- comparative of little; "she walks less than she should"; "he works less these days"
- (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer; "less than three weeks"; "no less than 50 people attended"; "in 25 words or less"
- A privative, named from Latin '''' , "to deprive", is a particle that negates or inverts the value of the stem of the word. In Indo-European languages many privatives are prefixes; but they can also be suffixes, or more independent elements.
- Christian Friedrich Lessing (August 10, 1809 - 1862) was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808-1880), and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781).
- Less is a band from the San Francisco Bay Area led by the enigmatically-monikered S. Foot. As of 2005, they have released two albums, Piano Wire Smile (2001) and Cover, Protective, Individual (2004), both on the Firecode Core label. ...
- less is a terminal pager program on Unix, Windows and Unix-like systems used to view (but not change) the contents of a text file one screen at a time. It is similar to more, but has the extended capability of allowing both forward and backward navigation through the file. ...
- (Lessness (short story)) "Lessness" is a short story by Samuel Beckett originally written in French as Sans in 1969 and later translated into English by the author.
- comparative form of little: more little; smaller. [from 11th c.]; A smaller amount (of); not as much. [from 14th c.]; A smaller number of; fewer. [from 9th c.]; To smaller extent; In lower degree; minus; not including
- (Lessness) A philosophy whereby one reconciles oneself with diminishing expectations of material wealth: " I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho."
- A food, whether altered or not, contains 25% less of a nutrient or of calories than the reference food.
- in "homeless", "pointless", and "endless" where -less means 'without'
- is used when talking about things that can't be counted: Lureen shows less perseverance than we expected; also less distance, less pollution, less rain.
- more with features, see Section 3.3.4.2.
- [from Old English leas devoid, untrue] (1) lacking, free from, without (airless, childless, venomless, countless); (2) unable to be affected by (tireless).
- refers to a quantity that cannot be counted. Fewer refers to a number that can be counted.
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- Returns all headwords with data in the field selected that is less than the search term.
- A command which is used to view the contents of a file one screen at a time. Similar commands include cat, more and tail.
- first is a ruby's gem, to CSS with dynamic language features, these features include variables, operators, nested rules. Less really is the role of fact will use the advanced features of the CSS into a standard CSS. ...
- lateral electrical spine stimulation
- Down payments and Trade-in values
- people speak Thai than English.