Number

['nʌmbə] or ['nʌmbɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an item of merchandise offered for sale; 'she preferred the black nylon number'; 'this sweater is an all-wool number'.

(noun.) a clothing measurement; 'a number 13 shoe'.

(noun.) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals; 'he had a number of chores to do'; 'the number of parameters is small'; 'the figure was about a thousand'.

(noun.) the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural); 'in English the subject and the verb must agree in number'.

(noun.) a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification; 'she refused to give them her Social Security number'.

(noun.) a select company of people; 'I hope to become one of their number before I die'.

(noun.) a concept of quantity involving zero and units; 'every number has a unique position in the sequence'.

(verb.) place a limit on the number of.

(verb.) enumerate; 'We must number the names of the great mathematicians'.

(verb.) give numbers to; 'You should number the pages of the thesis'.

整理:怀亚特--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.

(n.) A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.

(n.) A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.

(n.) Numerousness; multitude.

(n.) The state or quality of being numerable or countable.

(n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.

(n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(n.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.

(n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.

(n.) To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.

(n.) To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.

(n.) To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.

(n.) To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.

弗洛西錄入

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Count, enumerate, tell, reckon, calculate, compute, numerate, call over, tell off, run over, sum up.

n. [1]. Figure, numeral, digit.[2]. Many, multitude, great many.

手打:米格尔

同義詞及反義詞：

[See COUNT]

錄入:凯思琳

解釋/意思:

n. that by which things are counted or computed: a collection of things: more than one: a unit in counting: a numerical figure: the measure of multiplicity: sounds distributed into harmonies: metre verse esp. in pl.: (gram.) the difference in words to express singular or plural: (pl.) the fourth book of the Old Testament.—v.t. to count: to reckon as one of a multitude: to mark with a number: to amount to.—n. Num′berer.—adj. Num′berless without number: more than can be counted.—ns. Numerabil′ity Nū′merableness.—adj. Nū′merable that may be numbered or counted.—adv. Nū′merably.—adj. Nū′meral pertaining to consisting of or expressing number.—n. a figure or mark used to express a number as 1 2 3 &c.: (gram.) a word used to denote a number.—adv. Nū′merally according to number.—adj. Nū′merary belonging to a certain number: contained within or counting as one of a body or a number—opp. to Supernumerary.—v.t. Nū′merāte to point off and read as figures: (orig.) to enumerate to number.—ns. Nūmerā′tion act of numbering: the art of reading numbers and expressing their values; Nū′merātor one who numbers: the upper number of a vulgar fraction which expresses the number of fractional parts taken.—adjs. Nūmer′ic -al belonging to or consisting in number: the same both in number and kind.—adv. Nūmer′ically.—n. Nūmeros′ity numerousness: harmonious flow.—adj. Nū′merous great in number: being many.—adv. Nū′merously.—n. Nū′merousness.

整理:劳埃德