Definitions for Numbers

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Numbers Num·bers

Spelling: [nuhm-berz]

IPA: /ˈnʌm bərz/

Numbers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in Numbers (bemnrsu).

Definitions for Numbers

noun

1. the fourth book of the Old Testament, containing the census of the Israelites after the Exodus from Egypt. Abbreviation: Num.
2. a numeral or group of numerals.
3. the sum, total, count, or aggregate of a collection of units, or the like:
4. a word or symbol, or a combination of words or symbols, used in counting or in noting a total.
5. the particular numeral assigned to an object so as to designate its place in a series:
6. one of a series of things distinguished by or marked with numerals.
7. a certain collection, company, or quantity not precisely reckoned, but usually considerable or large:
8. the full count of a collection or company.
9. a collection or company.
10. a quantity of individuals:
11. 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.
12. quantity as composed of units:
13. numerical strength or superiority; complement:
14. a tune or arrangement for singing or dancing.
15. a single or distinct performance within a show, as a song or dance:
16. a single part of a program made up of a group of similar parts:
17. any of a collection of poems or songs.
18. a distinct part of an extended musical work or one in a sequence of compositions.
19. conformity in music or verse to regular beat or measure; rhythm.
20. a single part of a book published in a series of parts.
21. a single issue of a periodical:
22. a code of numerals, letters, or a combination of these assigned to a particular telephone:
23. 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.
24. Informal. person; individual:
25. Informal. an article of merchandise, especially of wearing apparel, offered for sale:
26. 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:

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:

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 Numbers

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 Numbers

That was the extent of it during the peak of the flames, and the Numbers that swooshed around in the press the next day.

These are the Numbers as reported to the government by police departments themselves.

And too much of a focus on Numbers can obscure strategic truths.

Well, the Numbers tell us so, as do all of our day-to-day interactions, just as the president said.

Fine pools for the first six miles, with Numbers of ducks in them.

The Numbers reinforce another article in the Post, in which cops confessed to “turning a blind eye” to minor crimes.

Many of the Numbers bear the name of an old colonial dignitary.

But the troops were now deployed and able to bring their Numbers to bear.

His Numbers were very inferior, and almost the whole were slain.

They were nearly equal in Numbers to any two battalions in the brigade.