A certain number, at least two.
Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder.
An indefinite amount; a part. Used mostly with abstract and nonliving objects.
Please give me some of the cake.
A nonzero, unspecified proportion of (a bounded set of countable things): at least two.
Near-synonym: any
Of a measurement: approximately, roughly.
I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos.
From Middle English som, sum, from Old English sum (“some, a certain one”), from Proto-West Germanic *sum, from Proto-Germanic *sumaz (“some, a certain one”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, who...
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To a certain extent, or for a certain period.
They walked some and talked some.
Somewhat, a little.
I felt some better and continued taking the preparation through all that day, still ad libitum, and by evening, twenty-four hours after I began its use, felt considerably improved.