The difference between Fate and Lot
When used as nouns, fate means the presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events, whereas lot means a large quantity or number.
When used as verbs, fate means to foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable, whereas lot means to allot.
check bellow for the other definitions of Fate and Lot
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Fate as a noun:
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
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Fate as a noun:
The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
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Fate as a noun:
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
Examples:
"Accept your fate."
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Fate as a noun (mythology):
(one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
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Fate as a verb (transitive):
To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
Examples:
"The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur."
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Lot as a noun:
A large quantity or number; a great deal.
Examples:
"to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so"
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Lot as a noun:
A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
Examples:
"a lot of stationery"
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Lot as a noun:
One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
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Lot as a noun (informal):
A number of people taken collectively.
Examples:
"a sorry lot; a bad lot'"
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Lot as a noun:
A distinct portion or of land, usually smaller than a field.
Examples:
"a building lot in a city"
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Lot as a noun:
That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
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Lot as a noun:
Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
Examples:
"to cast lots; to draw lots'"
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Lot as a noun:
The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
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Lot as a noun:
A prize in a lottery.
Examples:
"rfquotek Evelyn"
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Lot as a noun:
Allotment; lottery.
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Lot as a noun (definite, '''the lot'''):
All members of a set; everything.
Examples:
"The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot."
"If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them."
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Lot as a noun:
An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
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Lot as a verb (transitive, dated):
To allot; to sort; to apportion.
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Lot as a verb (US, informal, dated):
To count or reckon (on or upon).