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| Sounds | nah'mber |
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| Rhymes | absorber, amber, arbor, and 69 more rhymes in ber at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | The property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals. |
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| Examples | "he had a number of chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small" |
| Synonyms | figure |
| Narrower | numerousness, numerosity, multiplicity; preponderance, prevalence; innumerableness, countlessness; majority, bulk; minority; fewness |
| Broader | amount |
| Verbs | number; number; number; number; number |
| Meaning | A concept of quantity derived from zero and units. |
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| Examples | "every number has a unique position in the sequence" |
| Narrower | coordinate, co-ordinate; pagination, folio, page number, paging; decimal; constant; oxidation number, oxidation state; count; factor; Fibonacci number; prime, prime quantity; composite number; score; record; compound number; ordinal number, ordinal, no.; cardinal number, cardinal; base, radix; floating-point number; fixed-point number; atomic number; baryon number; quota; linage, lineage; natural number; integer, whole number; addend; augend; minuend; subtrahend; remainder, difference; complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number; square, second power; cube, third power; biquadrate, biquadratic, quartic, fourth power; root; dividend; divisor; quotient; remainder; multiplier, multiplier factor; multiplicand |
| Broader | definite quantity |
| Adjectives | numeral, numerical, numeric |
| Verbs | number; number; number; number; number |
| Meaning | A short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program. |
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| Examples | "it was one of the best numbers he ever did" |
| Synonyms | act, routine, turn, bit |
| Narrower | show-stopper, showstopper, stopper |
| Broader | performance, public presentation |
| Meaning | A numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification. |
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| Examples | "she refused to give them her Social Security number" |
| Synonyms | identification number |
| Narrower | bank identification number, BIN, ABA transit number; license number, registration number; Social Security number; personal identification number, PIN, PIN number |
| Broader | positive identification |
| Verbs | number; number; number; number |
| Meaning | The number is used in calling a particular telephone. |
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| Examples | "he has an unlisted number" |
| Synonyms | phone number, telephone number |
| Broader | signal, signaling, sign |
| Meaning | A symbol used to represent a number. |
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| Synonyms | numeral |
| Narrower | Arabic numeral, Hindu numeral, Hindu-Arabic numeral; Roman numeral; antilogarithm, antilog |
| Broader | symbol |
| Verbs | number; number; number; number; number |
| Meaning | One of a series published periodically. |
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| Synonyms | issue |
| Member of | series, serial, serial publication |
| Narrower | edition |
| Broader | periodical |
| Meaning | A select company of people. |
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| Examples | "I hope to become one of their number before I die" |
| Broader | company |
| Verbs | number |
| Meaning | The grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural). |
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| Examples | "in English the subject and the verb must agree in number" |
| Broader | grammatical category, syntactic category |
| Meaning | An item of merchandise offered for sale. |
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| Examples | "she preferred the black nylon number"; "this sweater is an all-wool number" |
| Broader | merchandise, wares, product |
| Meaning | A clothing measurement. |
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| Examples | "a number 13 shoe" |
| Broader | size |
| Usage | colloquialism |
| Meaning | Add up in number or quantity. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | total, add up, come, amount |
| Narrower | work out; outnumber; average, average out; make |
| Broader | be |
| Nouns | number; number; number |
| Meaning | Give numbers to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Examples | "You should number the pages of the thesis" |
| Narrower | foliate, paginate, page |
| Broader | designate, denominate |
| Nouns | number; number; number; number; numbering |
| Meaning | Enumerate. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "We must number the names of the great mathematicians" |
| Synonyms | list |
| Narrower | itemize, itemise |
| Broader | name, identify |
| Nouns | number; number; number; number; numbering |
| Meaning | Put into a group. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
| Synonyms | count |
| Broader | classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate |
| Nouns | number |
| Meaning | Determine the number or amount of. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | count, enumerate, numerate |
| Entailed by | tally, chalk up |
| Narrower | recount; miscount; census; total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up |
| Broader | determine, find, find out, ascertain |
| Nouns | number; number; number; number |
| Meaning | Place a limit on the number of. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | keep down |
| Broader | limit, circumscribe, confine |
| Nouns | number; number; number; number |