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  1. adjective Greatest in number: won the most votes.
  2. adjective Greatest in amount, extent, or degree: has the most compassion.
  3. adjective In the greatest number of instances: Most fish have fins.
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  • What I like the most is all the money the owner makes by cutting Every corner to maximize his profits. —  Blog updates
  • What I like the most is their intuitive interface. —  TechCrunch
  • One that I like the most is the availability of new optional features and roles with the Server Core installation option. —  MSDN Blogs
  • But the part I like the most is the way NEAT is getting local kids involved. —  Hartford Courant blogs
  • Have been fascinated with anything crypto as far back as I can remember, Love hearing about the big ones (Bigfoot, Nessie, Champ, etc..), But the stories that I like the most are about animals that somehow beat the odds, Even though the human race tried to exterminate them, Somewhere they might still survive (Thycaline, etc …) and animals that have not been seen for many years. —  Cryptomundo
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  1. Middle English, from Old English mǣst, māst; see mē-3 in Indo-European roots. Adv., sense 3, short for almost.

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  1. from Middle English most, mast, from Anglo-Saxon mǣst = Old Saxon mēst = OFries. mast = Dutch meest = Middle Low German mēst, meist = Old High German Middle High German G. meist = Icelandic mestr = Swedish Danish mest = Gothic (Moesogothic) maists, most; superlative going with more and mo, comparative: see more.
  2. from Middle English most, mast, from Anglo-Saxon mǣst, adverb, orig. neuter of mǣst, adjective: see most, adjective
 

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