Number

Noun

 * 1)  An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
 * Zero, one, -1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.
 * 1)  A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer
 * The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.
 * 1)  A member of one of several classes: natural numbers,integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions.
 * The equation $$e^{i\pi}+1=0$$ includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, $$\pi$$, $$i$$, and $$e$$.
 * 1)  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 &#x2116;). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
 * Horse number 5 won the race.
 * 1) Quantity.
 * Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time
 * His army is vast in number.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
 * 2) * 1635, John Donne, The Triple Foole:
 * Griefe brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
 * 1)  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".
 * 1)   A person
 * 2) * 1968 Janet Burroway, The dancer from the dance: a novel, Little, Brown, p40
 * I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number."
 * 1) * 1988 Erica Jong, Serenissima, Dell, p214
 * "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 [...]"
 * 1) * 2005 Denise A. Agnew, Kate Hill & Arianna Hart, By Honor Bound, Ellora's Cave Publishing, p207
 * He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexy number rubbing up against him.
 * 1)   An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one
 * 2) * 2007 Cesca Martin, Agony Angel: So You Think You've Got Problems..., Troubador Publishing Ltd, p134
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2007 Lorelei James, Running with the Devil, Samhain Publishing, Ltd, p46
 * "I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky."
 * 1)   A telephone number
 * 2) * 2001 E. Forrest Hein, The Ruach Project, Xulon Press, p86
 * “[...] 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?”
 * 1) * 2007 Lindsey Nicole Isham, No Sex in the City: One Virgin's Confessions on Love, Lust, Dating, and Waiting, Kregel Publications, p111
 * 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.
 * 1) A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, auotmobiles, and various other items.
 * 2)  A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.
 * 3) * 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 12:
 * 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 [...].

Synonyms

 * scalar

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:number

Derived terms

 * abundant number
 * algebraic number
 * binary number
 * cardinal number
 * complex number
 * decimal number
 * deficient number
 * do a number on
 * have someone's number
 * hexadecimal number
 * house number
 * hyperreal number
 * hypercomplex number
 * imaginary number


 * irrational number
 * meandric number
 * natural number
 * number-cruncher
 * number-crunching
 * number field
 * number line
 * number one
 * number two
 * number theory
 * numberless
 * ordinal number
 * opposite number
 * perfect number


 * phone number
 * prime number
 * rational number
 * real number
 * round number
 * serial number
 * surreal number
 * take a number
 * telephone number
 * transcendental number
 * transfinite number
 * whole number
 * without number



Related terms

 * numeral
 * numeric
 * numerical

Verb

 * 1)  To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
 * Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
 * 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.

Adjective
number



Verbs for Number
affix — to; allot—; ascertain—; check—; conjecture—; decimate —s; demonstrate with —s; deplete —s; dwarf in—; inscribe with —; limit—; memorize—; recall—; recite ——s; repeat—; run over —s; select—; — dwindles; —shrivels; —wanes.

Adverbs for Number
correspondingly; overwhelmingly; countlessly; adequately; prodigiously; extravagantly; increasingly; definitely; interminably; mystically; proportionally; lavishly.

Thesaurus
G, M, a certain number, a few, a number, account, act, add up, add up to, afterpiece, aggregate, aggregate to, amount, amount to, apportion, army, art, article, back matter, back number, batch, beat, bevy, billion, bit, block out, blood, book, box score, brand, breed, budget, bunch, business, calculate, call off, call over, call the roll, calling, career, career building, careerism, cast, census, chapter, character, chaser, chiliad, chiliagon, chiliahedron, chiliarch, chiliarchia, chunk, cipher, clan, clause, clutch, collection, color, come, come to, company, comprise, compute, contain, copy, count, covey, craft, crowd, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, deal, decrease, denomination, description, designation, detail, difference, digit, divertimento, divertissement, divide, dose, dual, edition, enumerate, epilogue, exode, exodus, expository scene, fascicle, feather, few, figure, figure up, finale, fix, foliate, folio, form, front matter, game, gang, gathering, genre, genus, gob, grain, grand, group, handful, handicraft, heap, hoke act, horde, host, hundred, hunk, ilk, impression, include, increase, integer, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, issue, itemize, kidney, kilo, kilocycle, kilogram, kilohertz, kiloliter, kilometer, kin, kind, label, lakh, large amount, legions, library, library edition, lifework, lilt, line, line of business, line of work, loads, lot, make, manner, many, mark, mass, measure, mess, meter, metier, metrics, millennium, millepede, milligram, milliliter, million, mission, mob, mold, mount up to, movement, multitude, myriad, mystery, nature, numbers, numeral, numerate, occupation, one hundred thousand, one or two, outline, pack, page, paginate, paragraph, parcel, parse, part, party, passage, passel, persuasion, phrase, phylum, platoon, plural, poll, portion, practice, printing, product, profession, prologue, prosody, pursuit, quantify, quantity, quantize, race, racket, rate, ration, reckon, reckon up to, reckoning, reduce, resolve, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, routine, run into, run over, run to, scan, scene, schematize, school edition, score, section, sentence, series, set, several, shape, sheet, shtick, signature, singular, sketch, skit, slew, slews, small amount, song and dance, sort, specialization, specialty, species, stamp, stand-up comedy act, strain, stripe, striptease, style, sum, sum up, summation, swarm, swing, tale, tally, tell, ten thousand, text, the bottom line, the like of, the likes of, the story, the whole story, thou, thousand, tons, tot up, tot up to, total, tote up to, trade, trade book, trade edition, trial, tribe, troop, turn, two or three, type, umpteen, unitize, variety, verse, vocation, volume, walk, walk of life, whole, whole number, work, x number, yard

Etymology 1
noumbre:, from nombre:, from  numerus:, from.

Etymology 2
From numb: + -er:.

Noun

 * Abkhaz: ахыҧхьаӡара
 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Arabic: رقم
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Basque: zenbaki
 * Belarusian: лік (lik)
 * Breton: niver
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 數, 数, 數目, 数目, 數字, 数字
 * Cornish:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: nombro
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: número
 * Georgian: რიცხვი (ric’xvi)
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: संख्या
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: numbro
 * Indonesian: angka, bilangan
 * Interlingua: numero
 * Irish: uimhir
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 数, 数字


 * Korean: 수 (數)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ژماره‌
 * Lao:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: skaitlis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: ,
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: earroo
 * Navajo:, ,
 * Nepali: (sankhya, anka)
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Novial: nombre
 * Old English: rīm, ġerīm, tæl
 * Old French:
 * Old Frisian:
 * Old High German:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: yupay
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: broj, čislo
 * Sicilian: nummuru, nùmmuru
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: จำนวน
 * Turkish:
 * Yiddish: נומער, צאָל


 * Arabic: عدد
 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 數, 数, 數字, 数字
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: cifero
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: संख्या
 * Icelandic:


 * Indonesian: nomor
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 数, 数字
 * Lao:
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: număr
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: సంఖ్య


 * Arabic: عدد
 * Armenian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: nombro
 * Finnish:
 * French: nombre entier, entier
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: संख्या
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ژماره‌
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: skaitlis
 * Luxembourgish: Zuel
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese:
 * Nahuatl: tlapoalli
 * Navajo:
 * Novial: nombre
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: număr, număr întreg
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: адад
 * Telugu: సంఖ్య (samkhya)


 * Arabic: رقم
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: zenbaki
 * Breton: niverenn
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 號碼, 号码
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: numero
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hindi: नंबर
 * Icelandic:


 * Ido: numero
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 番号
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese:
 * Novial: numre
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: număr
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: శ్రేణి
 * Urdu: نمبر


 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 多少, 數碼, 数码
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: nombro
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * Greek:, ποσότητα
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 多寡


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ژماره‌
 * Latvian: skaits
 * Macedonian:, ,
 * Nahuatl: tlapoalli
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cantitate, număr
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: antal, numerär
 * Telugu: మొత్తము
 * !Xóõ: !ɢa̰n-!ɢa̰n (of objects), dzâa (of people)


 * Armenian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: nombro
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 수


 * Latin:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: numerus
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: număr
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: numerus
 * Telugu: ఒంటరి, ఒకటిగా


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 節目, 节目
 * Finnish:, ohjelmanumero
 * French:
 * Greek:


 * Italian:
 * Romanian: număr
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: nummer

Verb

 * Breton: niverenniñ
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: nummeren
 * Esperanto: numeri
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,


 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: нумерира
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, numerota
 * Russian: нумеровать
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech: se
 * Esperanto: nombri
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: kitesz egy mennyiséget, valamennyit számlál


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: избројува, набројува
 * Russian:, исчисляться