Large (surname)

Large is an English surname, with variants including Lardge, Lurge, and Large. Its meaning is variable, though it may derive from the Norman French adjective, large (meaning "generous" or "big" [as in, "that's big of you", meaning generous, as well as large in size]), as it is found in the surname "le Large" in English records dating back as far as the 13th century. Harrison's work on English surnames gives the following: "LARGE (adjectival: French, Latin) BIG; GENEROUS [Middle English Old French large; Latin larg-us, -a, [meaning] abundant, liberal]"

He gives an early citation for the name: Austin Belz from the Hundred Rolls, a reference dating to 1273.

He also provides a quotation showing the word in its older sense of generous, full, liberal or ample in its literary context:

So large of yift [gift] and free was she (from Chaucer's Romance of the Rose I168)

Another variant surname, "de Large", appears to be continental European rather than English in origin.

Henry Brougham Guppy's survey circa 1881, based on local British directories, places Large as a surname local to North Wiltshire, and considers it to have particular prevalence among yeoman farmers.(Guppy, 1890)

Large

Large means of great size.

Large may also refer to:

Names of people

  • Large (surname), an English surname
  • Film

  • Large (film), a 2001 comedy film
  • Mathematics

  • Arbitrarily large, phrase in mathematics
  • Sufficiently large, a phrase in mathematics
  • Large diffeomorphism, diffeomorphism that cannot be continuously connected to the identity diffeomorphism in mathematics and physics
  • Large numbers, numbers that are significantly larger than those ordinarily used in everyday life
  • Large ordinal
  • Large cardinal
  • Large category, a category with a proper class of objects and morphisms (or both)
  • Large sieve, method of analytic number theory in mathematics
  • See also

  • All pages beginning with "large"
  • All pages with titles containing large
  • Big (disambiguation)
  • Giant (disambiguation)
  • Huge (disambiguation)
  • Humongous (disambiguation)
  • Macro (disambiguation)
  • Size (disambiguation)
  • Maxima (music)

    A maxima, duplex longa, or larga (in British usage: large) was a musical note used commonly in thirteenth and fourteenth century music and occasionally until the end of the sixteenth century. It was usually twice or, rarely, three times (Stoessel 2009, 181) as long as a longa, four or six or nine times as long as a breve, and 8, 12, 18, or 27 times as long as a semibreve (whole note). Like the stem of the longa, the stem of the maxima generally pointed downwards except occasionally when it appeared on the bottom line or space. Before around 1430, the maxima was written with a solid, black body. Over the course of the fifteenth century, like most other note values, the head of the maxima became void (Apel 1961, 87).

    In most early sources the duplex longa has twice the body of a longa, but before 1250 there is often no clear difference of shape and the presence of the duplex longa is instead merely suggested by a greater distance between the notes in the tenor (in score notation), caused by the greater number of notes in the upper parts (Apel 1961, 224, 245). See Mensural notation for examples.

    Large (film)

    Large is a 2001 feature film directed by Justin Edgar for FilmFour.

    Plot

    Large is a gross-out teen comedy which centres on Jason, the son of a fading rock star, and his comic attempts to fulfill the conditions of his father's will in order to inherit a fortune.

    Cast

    Luke de Woolfson as Jason Mouseley
    Simon Lowe as Rob
    Phil Cornwell as Barry Blaze Mouseley
    Melanie Gutteridge as Sophie
    Morwenna Banks as Lorraine
    Lee Oakes as Ian
    Andrew Grainger as Norman Gates

    Production

    Large was produced by Alex Usburne.The pre-production period was relatively long, with writers Mike Dent and Justin Edgar draughting 20 versions of the script.Large was filmed and edited at Pebble Mill Studios and on location in Birmingham, UK, for six weeks in March and April 2000 on a budget of £1.4 million. The line producer was Paul Ritchie (Slumdog Millionaire, Bend It Like Beckham). It was the first film of Director of Photography Robbie Ryan (Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights) and Editor Eddie Hamilton (Kick Ass, X-Men: First Class). It was also Edgar's feature film debut.

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