It depends on the specific situation.
lot [l？ t]
Noun (short for noun)
1. Sign and draw lots.
draw lots
3. Decision (or choice) made by drawing lots
4. what you get in the lottery; Due share
5. Fate; Luck; Suffering; God's arrangement
6. A piece of civil engineering (land); Region; Settings; Group; criticize
7. [Main British English] A small piece of land divided and sold in a city; A graveyard (in a graveyard)
8. A group of people
9. [Spoken] A certain kind of person; Certain types of people
10. (commodities, etc. ) One by one, one by one, one by one.
1 1. [Commonly used plural] [spoken] a lot; many
12. The whole; All; All; gross capacity
13. Film studio; studio
14. [British English] tax
adverb
[many] [spoken]
Very large; very
Often, often
transitive verb
1. grouping; Divide (usually used with out)
2. Divide (land) into several pieces
3. [Rare] distribution; distribute
4. [Obsolete] Draw lots to decide ...
intransitive verb
draw lots
Synonym:
Fate.
Deformation:
Lottin
Lot 1 [l？ t]
Lot of the Bible (Abraham's nephew) [Genesis 13: 1 ~ 12, 19: 1 ~ 26]
Lot2 [l？ t]
1. Lott River (a river in southern France that flows westward into the Garonne River)
2. Lott province (southern province of France)