BIGGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bigger mean? 

• BIGGER (adjective)
  The adjective BIGGER has 1 sense:

1. large or big relative to something else

  Familiarity information: BIGGER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIGGER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large or big relative to something else

Synonyms:

bigger; larger

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

 Context examples 

Under higher levels of carbon dioxide, instead of producing bigger stems, marsh plants produced more and smaller stems.

(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)

They gave him plenty of food, yet for all they could do he never grew bigger, but kept just the same size as he had been when he was born.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Intriguingly, the black holes involved in such collisions are also much bigger than what was previously considered typical.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The bigger the tree, the more carbon it stores.

(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)

If the high-pressure system becomes bigger, you are going to get bigger heat waves that affect more people, and you are likely going to get stronger heat waves.

(Stalled weather patterns will get bigger due to climate change, National Science Foundation)

It will allow you to have a bigger, more sophisticated role than the one you have had, one you will be ready to assume.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The little girl gave a cry of amazement and looked about her, her eyes growing bigger and bigger at the wonderful sights she saw.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

If visible to the human eye, this gamma-ray “halo” would appear about 40 times bigger in the sky than a full Moon.

(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)

Long-necked sauropod dinosaurs include the largest animals ever to walk on land, but they hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ball.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

“Exercise during youth adds extra layers to the outer surface of a bone to essentially make the bone bigger,” Warden says.

(Physical Activity Brings Lasting Bone Benefits, NIH, US)