Sekirov Dictionary

number

UK [ˈnʌmbə]US /ˈnʌmbər/

noun 17
verb 8
/ˈnʌmɚ/ noun 1
forms 5
phrases 11

noun17

•
An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
- Zero, one, −1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.
•
an amount of people or things that can be counted
- 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.
•
A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
- Despite last week's woes, the Braves still sport numbers that would make Christie Brinkley blush. — 1980
An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
•
A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
- Her passport number is C01X864TN.
- You can take the number 8 (bus) all the way to the airport.
•
A telephone number.
- Let's give her a call. Do you have her number handy?
- I'm definitely interested. Here's my number. Call me back anytime.
•
A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
- The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.
•
[before a noun] Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
- Horse number 5 won the race.
•
A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
- For his second number, he sang "The Moon Shines Bright".
•
(formal) A group of people.
- I include myself in their number.
•
Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
- Adjectives and nouns should agree in gender, number, and case.
•
(informal) A person.
- I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number." — 1968
•
(informal) An outfit, particularly a stylish one.
- "I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky." — 2007
An activity; assignment; job, as in cushy number.
•
(old-fashioned) An issue of a periodical publication.
- When, in July, 1897, my father brought home the first number of The Railway Magazine, I little thought that, sixty years later, I should still be reading it, without having missed a single number. — 1957
•
(US, slang) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer.
- These were the two that Tommy had chosen to collect a debt owed to his family by a dude named Heath who ran numbers out of a grocery store on 131st and Lenox. — 2005
•
[in the plural] (no longer used) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
- Griefe brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse. — 1631

verb8

•
To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
- Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
•
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.
•
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.
•
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.
•
To classify or include (in a group of things).
- Alexander the Great's army numbered an elite cavalry among its ranks.
•
To be classified or included (in a certain group or category of things).
- Her horses number among the fastest in her country.
To enumerate or list, especially while assigning numbers to.
•
(literary, no longer used) To count; to determine the quantity of.
- The king ordered that all his subjects be numbered.
- Who can number all the stars and who can count the desert sands?

number

UK /ˈnʌmə/US /ˈnʌmɚ/

noun1

Something that numbs.

forms

numbered · numbering · numbereth · numbers · numberest

Phrases with number

This dictionary works without the internet: on your phone · in Chrome