Number: English to English |
Number (n.) A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many. |
Number (n.) A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door. |
Number (n.) Numerousness; multitude. |
Number (n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things. |
Number (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. |
Number (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. |
Number (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 ind |
Number (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. |
Number (n.) The state or quality of being numerable or countable. |
Number (n.) To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand. |
Number (n.) To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate. |
Number (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. |
Number (n.) To reckon as one of a collection or multitude. |