Meaning of number | Babel Free

Definitions

1. number (counting)
2. Quantity.
3. Something that numbs.
4. musical number
5. To defeat, abuse, or humiliate in a calculated and thorough way.
6. An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
   countable
7. To determine or know someone's real character or motives.
8. A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
   countable
9. An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
   countable
10. spectacle
11. Too many to be counted; countless: mosquitoes without number.
12. 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.
    attributive
13. man, soldier
14. Arithmetic calculations.Used in plural:arithmetic, computation, figure (used in plural).
15. A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
16. very many. talloos لا يُعَد، لا يُحْصى безброен inumerável nespočetný zahllos talløs; utallig αμέτρητοςinnumerable, sin número lugematu خیلی زیاد lukematon innombrable לְאֵין סְפוֹר अगणित bezbrojan számtalan banyak óteljandi innumerevole 数えきれない 무수한 nesuskaičiuojamas neskaitāms tidak terkira ontelbaarutallig, talløsniezliczony ډير زيات inumerável nenu­mă­rat бесчисленный nespočetný neštet bezbrojan oräknelig, otalig มากจนนับไม่ถ้วน sayısız, pek çok 難以計數的 незліченний بے شمار nhiều vô kể 数不清的
17. A telephone number.
    countable, informal
18. one of the metal plates carried on the front and back of a motor vehicle showing the registration number of the vehicle. nommerplaat لَوْحَة رَقْم السَّيّارَه регистрационен номер placa do veículo státní poznávací značka das Nummernschild nummerplade πινακίδα αριθμού κυκλοφορίας matrícula, placa numbrimärk پلاک شماره rekisterikilpi plaque d'immatriculation לוּחִית זִיהוּי अंक पट्टिका registarska tablica plat nomor bílnúmeraplata targa ナンバープレート (자동차의) 번호판 numerio skydelis numura zīme plat nomb...
19. Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
20. he etc won't last much longer. لَه، خاصَّتَه tem os dias contados jeho dny jsou sečteny seine, etc. Tage sind gezählt hans dage er talte tiene los días contados ta päevad on loetud hänen päivänsä ovat luetut ses jours sont comptés hampir mati dagar hans eru taldir (ha i giorni contati) 余命いくばくもない 여생(餘生)이 얼마 남지 않았다 jo dienos suskaičiuotos viņa dienas ir skaitītas zijn dagen zijn geteld له شيبى نه ګټه اخيستل tem os dias contados zilele lui sunt numărate его и т.п. дни сочтены jeho dni sú spočíta...
    etc
21. Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
    archaic, in-plural
22. very many. I've told him times without number (= very often) not to do that. hoeveel keer كَثيرا، دائِما، مَرّات لا تُحْصى безброй пъти sem conta nesčíslně unzählige Male utallige gange αναρίθμητος un sinfín de palju همه lukemattomia kertoja innombrableאין ספור बिना नम्बर mnogo, mnoštvo számtalan banyak ótal (sinnum) innumerevole 数知れないほど 무수한 be skaičiaus neskaitāms tidak terbilang banyak ontelbaarutallige bez liku يو زيات شمير sem conta nenumărat бесчисленное множество veľakrát nešteto bezbro...
23. A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
    countable
24. número, cifra.
25. A group of people.
    formal, singular, singular-only
26. Mathematics a. A member of the set of positive integers; one of a series of symbols of unique meaning in a fixed order that can be derived by counting.
    Mathematics
27. A person.
    countable, informal
28. An outfit, particularly a stylish one.
    countable, informal
29. A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer.
    US, slang
30. An issue of a periodical publication.
    dated
31. A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
32. An activity; assignment; job, as in cushy number.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.”

“Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.”

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

“The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.”

“The former FBI director James Comey has said it did not occur to him that that the numbers 8647 – which he spotted spelled out in seashells on a beach, and posted on social media – could be interpreted as a call to assassinate the president, as many supporters of Donald Trump have claimed.”

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

“Horse number 5 won the race.”

“Her passport number is C01X864TN.”

“You can take the number 8 (bus) all the way to the airport.”

“Let's give her a call. Do you have her number handy?”

“I'm definitely interested. Here's my number. Call me back anytime.”

“Rikki, don't lose that number / You don't wanna call nobody else / Send it off in a letter to yourself”

““[...] I wonder if you could get hold of him and have him call me here at Interior. I’m in my office, do you have my number?””

“When I agreed to go surfing with him he said, “Great, can I have your number?” Well, I don’t give my number to guys I don’t know.”

“Marsha's work number is 555-8986.”

“Adjectives and nouns should agree in gender, number, and case.”

“Griefe brought to numbers cannot be ſo fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verſe.”

“As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame, / I liſp'd in Numbers, for the Numbers came.”

“For his second number, he sang "The Moon Shines Bright".”

“I include myself in their number.”

“As an association, we demonstrate near-Olympic sang-froid. As I write, the gods are smiling upon us, but in the past decade – not to mince words – two of our number have got divorced, one of us checked into rehab, and all of us have had distressful troubles with teenage kids.”

“I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number."”

“"Signorina Jessica," says the maid, a saucy little number, "your father has gone to his prayers and demands that you come to the synagogue at once [...]"”

“He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexy number rubbing up against him.”

“The trouble was I was wearing my backless glittering number from the night before underneath, so unless I could persuade the office it was National Fancy Dress Day I was doomed to sweat profusely in bottle blue.”

“"I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky."”

“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.”

“Back at his place again, Doc rolled a number, put on a late movie, found an old T-shirt, and sat tearing it up into short strips […]”

“the latest number of a magazine”

“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.”

“Despite last week's woes, the Braves still sport numbers that would make Christie Brinkley blush.”

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