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• Less than truckload shipping — Less Than Truckload (LTL) shipping is the transportation of relatively small freight. The alternatives to LTL carriers are parcel carriers or full truckload carriers. Parcel carriers usually handle small packages and freight that can be broken… …   Wikipedia

• less — [les] adj. [ME les < OE læs, adv. læssa, adj. (used as compar. of lytel, LITTLE), akin to OFris les < IE * leis < base * lei , to diminish, meager, > LITTLE] 1. alt. compar. of LITTLE 2. not so much; smaller in size or amount [to… …   English World dictionary

• Less-lethal weapon — Less lethal weapons, less than lethal weapons, non lethal weapons, non deadly weapons, or, more recently, compliance weapons are weapons intended to be unlikely to kill or to cause great bodily injury to a living target. In the past, police (or… …   Wikipedia

• Likely, California — Infobox Settlement official name = Likely, California settlement type = Unincorporated community imagesize = image caption = image mapsize = map caption = mapsize1 = map caption1 = subdivision type = Country subdivision type1 = State subdivision… …   Wikipedia

• less — I. adjective, comparative of (I)little Etymology: Middle English, partly from Old English lǣs, adverb & noun; partly from lǣssa, adjective; akin to Old Frisian lēs less Date: before 12th century 1. constituting a more limited number or amount …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• likely — like|ly1 W1S1 [ˈlaıkli] adj comparative likelier superlative likeliest [Date: 1300 1400; : Old Norse; Origin: glikligr, from glikr like ] 1.) something that is likely will probably happen or is probably true ≠ ↑unlikely ▪ Snow showers are likely… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• less — less1 W1S1 [les] adv 1.) not so much or to a smaller degree ≠ ↑more ▪ Maybe he would worry less if he understood the situation. ▪ In recent years she has appeared in public less frequently. less (...) than ▪ Tickets were less expensive than I had …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• likely — Adjective: Credible, although often employed in sarcasm, as a likely story. Adverb: Probable, but not more than probable and sometimes less than probable depending upon the context. Not the equivalent of reasonably certain. 22 Am J2d Damg § 352.… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• much less — Not to mention • • • Main Entry: ↑less * * * still/much/even/less phrase used after a negative statement in order to emphasize that it applies even more to what you say next They are not interested in reading p …   Useful english dictionary

• much less — conjunction Date: 1615 not to mention used especially in negative contexts to add to one item another denoting something less likely < can hardly grow, much less ripen, till the stock is in the earth Jonathan Swift > < he is never going to get… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? — Bob and Terry in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? Format Sitcom Starrin …   Wikipedia