number

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

numbers

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

number

past (v2)

numbered

past participle (v3)

numbered

present participle

numbering

3rd person singular

numbers

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.Quantity of countable things.

   • The number of malnourished children has decreased.
   • Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time.
   • There are, in addition to all the red socks, a number that don’t suit me either.

2. 2.An abstract entity used to describe quantity.

   • Zero, one, −1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.

3. 3.A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.

   • The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.

4. 4.An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.

   • The equation e#123;i#92;pi#125;#43;1#61;0 includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, #92;pi, i, and e.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To total or count; to amount to.

   • I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.
   • Do they number in the hundreds, do they number in the thousands? Do they number in the tens of thousand?

2. 2.To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number.

   • The old man knew that his days were numbered.
   • THE DAYS OF ENGLAND NOT “NUMBERED.” REPLY TO SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON.
   • To conclude this book, we will let Lange’s photo and its three layers guide us. Each layer invites us to explore a different answer to this book's title question, how did our days become numbered?

3. 3.To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).

   • Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
   • “Public Health Service Numbered Publications – A Catalog, 1950-1962” and contains those numbered publications issued during the period 1963-64.
   • The remainder of the valley is laid off into cute little squares and streets, with everything named and numbered, ready to be listed in the brokers’ offices.

4. 4.To call out and assign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting.

   • Shelley numbered off the group into two teams for the baseball game.
   • I counted them and numbered them off, and I found about three hundred and seventy or three hundred and seventy-five.
   • At my entrance, the Sergeant called them to attention, numbered them off smartly, and presented two Companies for my instruction.

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Everyday conversation

Common

General reading & writing

Very common

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Common

Literature

Uncommon

Synonyms

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