Definitions for number

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number num·ber

Spelling: [nuhm-ber]

IPA: /ˈnʌm bər/

Number is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in number (bemnru).

Definitions for number

noun

1. a numeral or group of numerals.
2. the sum, total, count, or aggregate of a collection of units, or the like:
3. a word or symbol, or a combination of words or symbols, used in counting or in noting a total.
4. the particular numeral assigned to an object so as to designate its place in a series:
5. one of a series of things distinguished by or marked with numerals.
6. a certain collection, company, or quantity not precisely reckoned, but usually considerable or large:
7. the full count of a collection or company.
8. a collection or company.
9. a quantity of individuals:
10. numbers. a considerable amount or quantity; many: metrical feet; verse. musical periods, measures, or groups of notes. numbers pool (def 1). Informal. the figures representing the actual cost, expense, profit, etc.: Obsolete. arithmetic.
11. quantity as composed of units:
12. numerical strength or superiority; complement:
13. a tune or arrangement for singing or dancing.
14. a single or distinct performance within a show, as a song or dance:
15. a single part of a program made up of a group of similar parts:
16. any of a collection of poems or songs.
17. a distinct part of an extended musical work or one in a sequence of compositions.
18. conformity in music or verse to regular beat or measure; rhythm.
19. a single part of a book published in a series of parts.
20. a single issue of a periodical:
21. a code of numerals, letters, or a combination of these assigned to a particular telephone:
22. Grammar. a category of noun, verb, or adjective inflection found in many languages, as English, Latin, and Arabic, used to indicate whether a word has one or more than one referent. There may be a two-way distinction in number, as between singular and plural, three-way, as between singular, dual, and plural, or more.
23. Informal. person; individual:
24. Informal. an article of merchandise, especially of wearing apparel, offered for sale:
25. mathematics regarded as a science, a basic concept, and a mode of thought:

Idioms

1. by the numbers, according to standard procedure, rules, customs, etc.; orthodoxly; by the book: together or in unison to a called-out count:
2. do a number on, Slang. to undermine, defeat, humiliate, or criticize thoroughly: to discuss or discourse about, especially in an entertaining way:
3. do one's number, to give a performance; perform: Slang. to behave in a predictable or customary manner:
4. get / have someone's number, Informal. to become informed about someone's real motives, character, intentions, etc.:
5. have one's number on it, Slang. to be thought of as the instrument of fate in the death of a person:
6. one's number is (was, will be) up, Slang. one is (was, will be) in serious trouble. one is (was, will be) on the point of death:
7. without number, of unknown or countless number; vast:

adjective

1. deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move:
2. manifesting or resembling numbness:
3. incapable of action or of feeling emotion; enervated; prostrate:
4. lacking or deficient in emotion or feeling; indifferent:

verb (used with object)

1. to mark with or distinguish by numbers:
2. to amount to or comprise in number; total:
3. to consider or include in a number:
4. to count over one by one; tell:
5. to mention individually or one by one; enumerate:
6. to set or fix the number of; limit in number; make few in number:
7. to live or have lived (a number of years).
8. to ascertain the number of; count.
9. to apportion or divide:
10. to make numb.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a total; reach an amount:
2. to be numbered or included (usually followed by among or with):
3. to count.

Origin of number

1250-1300; 1940-45 for def 23; (noun) Middle English, variant of nombre Old French Latin numerus; (v.) Middle English nombren Old French nombrer Latin numerāre (derivative of numerus)

Examples for number

Jett sees this number as a marker of how much the president allows professionals to do the job.

You have changed a number of spoken words into a number of pothooks and scrawls.

Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.

The number of diplomats was pitiful (45 appointees in 1860), as was the amount of money allocated to them.

“Our members continue to face a number of challenges,” she said.

Our nation is in number more than half that of the British Isles.

The number of dissenters though is unprecedented in the modern era.

We have saved a number of countries from losing their liberty.

I suppose there are a number of girls here, although it's early.

Heard a number of natives cooeying above our camp, but did not see them.