Number
['nʌmbə] or ['nʌmbɚ]
Definition
(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'.
Checker: Wyatt--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Typist: Miguel
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See COUNT]
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Definition
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.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of numbers, denotes that unsettled conditions in business will cause you uneasiness and dissatisfaction. See Figures.
Editor: Noreen
Examples
- I hadn't any particular work to give him, but I had a number of small induction coils, and to give him something to do I told him to fix them up and sell them among his sailor friends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In May, 1915, they sank the great passenger liner, the _Lusitania_, without any warning, drowning a number of American citizens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He took a neat little leather case out of a drawer, and opening it he exhibited a number of shining instruments. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I started in to make a number of these lamps, but I soon found that the X-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally, so that his hair came out and his flesh commenced to ulcerate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The figures are the number of typhoid deaths occurring yearly out of 100,000 inhabitants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Number Three, Four, Five, often. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This machine contains a number of rotating beaters and high-pressure streams of water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She determined to call upon them and seek safety in numbers. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Great numbers of his most sober and valuable subjects were driven abroad by his religious persecutions, taking arts and industries with them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Mexicans used to capture these in large numbers and bring them into the American settlements and sell them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Up to that time I had not occupied any place in the South where the citizens were at home in any great numbers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They were in what is called a good position, and visited, and were visited by, numbers of people. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Numbers of people were there before me, all running in one direction, to the beach. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- So soon as a government departs from that standard, it ceases to be anything more than the gang in possession, and its days are numbered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the still uncultivated wilds of America, what wonder that among its other giant destroyers, Plague should be numbered! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The objects of my visit, he went on, quite irrepressibly, are numbered on my fingers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Among the technical w ritings of Varro besides the book on agriculture, which is extant, are numbered works on law, mensuration, and naval tactics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The presence of high overtones in the oboe and the presence of odd-numbered overtones in the clarinet enable us to distinguish without fail the sounds given out by these instruments. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- THESE events occupied so much time, that June had numbered more than half its days, before we again commenced our long-protracted journey. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It greatly helped them to have these points and aphorisms numbered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The enemy had taken a strong natural position with most of the Grand Gulf garrison, numbering about seven or eight thousand men, under General Bowen. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Each firm had its own army of boys, numbering from twelve to fifteen, whose duties were to ascertain the latest quotations from the different exchanges. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- My respite was short-lived however, for soon the entire party, numbering some thousand men, came charging into view, racing madly toward me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- There are now on their way to join you three other brigades of the best cavalry, numbering at least five thousand men and horses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is one more industry, though of comparatively small extent, that is included in the activities of the Orange works, namely, the manufacture and sale of the Bates numbering machine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Included in these sixty thousand troops, there were two small divisions of cavalry, numbering altogether about four thousand men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In numbering the group of buildings, the galvanometer-room is No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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