Definition of numb in English English dictionary
- To cause to become numb
The dentist gave me novocaine to numb my tooth before drilling, thank goodness.
- Without the power of sensation and motion or feeling; insensible
- To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy
- {a} benumbed, torpid, cold, chill, dead
- {v} to make numb, chill, stupify, deaden
- so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; "petrified with fear"; "she was petrified by the eerie sound"; "too numb with fear to move"
- Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night
- {s} anesthetized; lacking sensitivity (to pain); in shock; senseless
- make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses
- If cold weather, a drug, or a blow numbs a part of your body, you can no longer feel anything in it. An injection of local anaesthetic is usually given first to numb the area She awoke with a numbed feeling in her left leg
- without the power of sensation and motion or feeling, insensible
- make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
- If a part of your body is numb, you cannot feel anything there. He could feel his fingers growing numb at their tips My legs felt numb and my toes ached. + numbness numb·ness I have recently been suffering from pain and numbness in my hands
- {f} cause to be numb, make insensitive (to pain), anesthetize
- Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold
- (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"
- If an event or experience numbs you, you can no longer think clearly or feel any emotion. For a while the shock of Philippe's letter numbed her The horror of my experience has numbed my senses. see also mind-numbing + numbed numbed I'm so numbed with shock that I can hardly think. the sort of numbed hush which usually follows an automobile accident
- If you are numb with shock, fear, or grief, you are so shocked, frightened, or upset that you cannot think clearly or feel any emotion. The mother, numb with grief, has trouble speaking I was so shocked I went numb. + numbness numb·ness Many men become more aware of emotional numbness in their 40s. + numbly numb·ly He walked numbly into the cemetery
- lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"
- numb as a hake
- {s} foolish, stupid; ignorant, insensitive (Slang)
- numb fish
- {i} (Zoology) fish that has electric organs and is able to give electrical shock from its organs and enlarged pectoral (lives in tropical or temperate seas), electric ray, crampfish, electrical fish, torpedo
- number
- To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items)
Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
- number
- Comparative form of numb: more numb
- number
- 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.
- number
- An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one
I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky..
- number
- A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, auotmobiles, and various other items
- number
- Poetic metres; verses, rhymes
Griefe brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
- number
- Quantity
His army is vast in number.
- number
- A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer
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 .
- number
- A person
He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexy number rubbing up against him.
- number
- 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 №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner
Horse number 5 won the race.
- number
- A telephone number
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.
- number
- 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.
- number
- A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer
The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.
- numbly
- In a numb manner; without feeling
- numbness
- Inability or reduced ability to experience emotion
- number
- {v} to count, tell over, reckon, add
- number
- {n} many units added, poetry, harmony
- comfortably numb
- (deyim) A state of severe alienation and burnout. When the pressures of life and the evils, insanity and corruption of the outside world are too much and you build a mental wall and you shut yourself out from everything and everyone. You just want to retreat by watching TV or listening to music a LOT to take you from your inner pain but your attention span is so minimized you may wind up on the couch looking up at the ceiling and constantly changing TV channels with the remote. Certain scenes or sounds may bring up painful emotions and make you cry. So you try to quench the pain by smoking, drinking or doing dope
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- Number
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- Numbness
- numbedness
- numbed
- {s} made numb (especially by cold); insensitive (to pain), anesthetized
- numbed
- past of numb
- number
- You can refer to a short piece of music, a song, or a dance as a number. `Unforgettable', a number that was written and performed in 1951 Responsibility for the dance numbers was split between Robert Alton and the young George Balanchine
- number
- one of a series published periodically; "she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waitingroom"
- number
- A numeric-valued data object Modern @command{awk} implementations use double-precision floating-point to represent numbers Very old @command{awk} implementations use single-precision floating-point
- number
- place a limit on the number of enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians"
- number
- A numeric-valued data object Modern awk implementations use double-precision floating-point to represent numbers Very old awk implementations use single-precision floating-point
- number
- A number is the series of numbers that you dial when you are making a telephone call. Sarah sat down and dialled a number. a list of names and telephone numbers My number is 414-3925 `You must have a wrong number,' she said. `There's no one of that name here.'
- number
- the number is used in calling a particular telephone; "he has an unlisted number"
- number
- The reader may decide to spend a pleasant half-hour studying the multitude of definitions in an unabridged dictionary Here, we are concerned only with numbers as they appear on notes and other syngraphic documents Since even this leaves us with a multitude of similar, hence sometimes confusing, things to discuss, we have put it all into the following table
- number
- give numbers to; "You should number the pages of the thesis"
- number
- An abstract entity used to describe quantity
- number
- If you refer to the numbers game, the numbers racket, or the numbers, you are referring to an illegal lottery or illegal betting. see also numbers game
- number
- equals from to
- number
- If there are a number of things or people, there are several of them. If there are any number of things or people, there is a large quantity of them. I seem to remember that Sam told a number of lies There must be any number of people in my position
- number
- an item of merchandise offered for sale; "she preferred the black nylon number"; "this sweater is an all-wool number" a clothing measurement; "a number 13 shoe" the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals; "he had a number of chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small"; "the figure was about a thousand" 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); "in English the subject and the verb must agree in number" a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification; "she refused to give them her Social Security number" a select company of people; "I hope to become one of their number before I die" a concept of quantity derived from zero and units; "every number has a unique position in the sequence" place a limit on the number of enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians" give numbers to; "You should number the pages of the thesis
- number
- A numeric valued data object The gawk implementation uses double precision floating point to represent numbers Very old awk implementations use single precision floating point
- number
- Quite simply, the number a road has Roads in the UK come in two basic types, classified and unclassified If it's classified, that means it has a number, and its number will be prefixed by a letter - A, B or M Road numbers provide a simple way to refer to a road and to describe a journey through the network Each road number is unique through the network - though a different letter prefix means a different road For example, there exist an A621, B621 and M621 and all are different roads in different parts of the country See A-roads; B-roads; C-roads; motorway; Ax(M); unclassified; zones; "misplaced" number
- number
- The state or quality of being numerable or countable
- number
- {f} count; assign a number; equal in amount; limit, allot; be included in (a specific group); total, add up to
- number
- The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular
- number
- place a limit on the number of
- number
- A real number is either a rational number or an irrational number In general, we may represent a real number on the number line
- number
- the total population of a species or classification category in a delineated unit, a measure of its abundance
- number
- give numbers to; "You should number the pages of the thesis
- number
- 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 indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one
- number
- Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection
- number
- A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many
- number
- To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand
- number
- 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
- a clothing measurement; "a number 13 shoe"
- number
- The value must be a number, and is represented textually in the customization buffer
- number
- a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification; "she refused to give them her Social Security number"
- number
- A symbol for a non-negative integer; a numeral
- number
- A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door
- number
- {i} mathematical value or its symbol; identifying numeral (e.g. of a house); indefinite amount, quantity of; sum, tally; act in a performance, musical piece; unit in a series; mathematics; quantity (Grammar); unique thing or person (Informal)
- number
- To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate
- number
- You use numbers to say how many things you are referring to or where something comes in a series. No, I don't know the room number Stan Laurel was born at number 3, Argyll Street The number 47 bus leaves in 10 minutes
- number
- The number of non-null values found in the data selected
- number
- A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show
- number
- enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians"
- number
- One or more arithmetical symbols representing a quantity calculated in units Example: 2, 97, XV
- number
- Numerousness; multitude
- number
- determine the number or amount of; "Can you count the books on your shelf?"; "Count your change"
- number
- char Number, see comment; V=Vyssotsky number; U=UGPMF number; W=white dwarf (EG or Gr number) Remarkschar Additional identifications and remarks Go back to main index webmaster@ucolick org A Service of the Computing Support Group UCO/Lick Observatory University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Tel: +1 408 459 2630 Fax: +1 408 454 9863
- number
- A non-negative integer with an entire range limited by the range of a C language signed integer (2,147,483,647 on a machine with 32 bit integers) Its acceptable value might further be limited by the context in which it is used
- number
- If a group of people or things numbers a particular total, that is how many there are. They told me that their village numbered 100 This time the dead were numbered in hundreds, not dozens
- number
- stores number data with many different decimal and floating point subtypes
- number
- the number of a noun or noun phrase generally corresponds to the number of real world entities referred to (e g singular NPs denote single individuals ( a table), plural NPs denote collections of individuals ( two tables) However the relationship between real number and grammatical number is not always straightforward - trousers is plural in form yet denotes a singular entity (as in the committee are considering that question this afternoon) and some nouns do not have distinct singular and plural forms ( sheep, salmon)
- number
- safety in numbers: see safety. Basic element of mathematics used for counting, measuring, solving equations, and comparing quantities. They fall into several categories. The counting numbers are the familiar 1, 2, 3 . . . ; whole numbers are the counting numbers and zero; integers are the whole numbers and the negative counting numbers; and the rational numbers are all possible quotients formed by integers, including fractions. These numbers can be symbolically represented by terminating or repeating decimals. Irrational numbers cannot be represented by fractions of integers or repeating decimals and must be represented by special symbols such as SquareRoot(2), e, and . Together, the rational and irrational numbers constitute the real numbers, which form an algebraic field (see field theory), as do the complex numbers. While the counting numbers and rational numbers come about as the means of counting, calculating, and measuring, the others arose as means of solving equations. See also transcendental number. atomic number Avogadro's number complex number imaginary number International Standard Book Number irrational number number system number theory prime number rational number real number Reynolds number transcendental number
- number
- In computer operations, (a) amount of units by count, (b) a magnitude or quantity represented by group of digits
- number
- You use number with words such as `large' or `small' to say approximately how many things or people there are. Quite a considerable number of interviews are going on I have had an enormous number of letters from single parents Growing numbers of people in the rural areas are too frightened to vote
- number
- A number is a word such as `two', `nine', or `twelve', or a symbol such as 1, 3, or
- number
- Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things
- number
- If you number something, you mark it with a number, usually starting at
- number
- If someone or something is numbered among a particular group, they are believed to belong in that group. The Leicester Swannington Railway is numbered among Britain's railway pioneers He numbered several Americans among his friends
- number
- A numeric valued data object The gawk implementation uses double precision floating point to represent numbers
- number
- He cut his paper up into tiny squares, and he numbered each one see also opposite number, prime number, serial number
- number
- A numeric valued data object The awk implementation uses double precision floating point to represent numbers
- number
- add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000"
- number
- an item of merchandise offered for sale; "she preferred the black nylon number"; "this sweater is an all-wool number"
- number
- a concept that answers how many -- " the number one is usually written as a simple vertical bar " (11)
- number
- 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
- If you say that someone's or something's days are numbered, you mean that they will not survive or be successful for much longer. Critics believe his days are numbered because audiences are tired of watching him
- number
- 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
- To reckon as one of a collection or multitude
- number
- put into a group; "The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members"
- number
- a quality attached to a noun or pronoun that indicates a category of how many individuals are being referred to Both English and Welsh have two numbers: singular (one individual) and plural (more than one individual)
- number
- a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did"
- number
- A nonnegative integer with an entire range limited by the range of a C language signed integer (2,147,483,647 on a machine with 32-bit integers) Its acceptable value might further be limited by the context in which it is used
- number
- tests whether its argument is a number
- number
- 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); "in English the subject and the verb must agree in number"
- number
- a select company of people; "I hope to become one of their number before I die"
- number
- a symbol used to represent a number; "he learned to write the numerals before he went to school"
- number
- You can refer to someone's or something's position in a list of the most successful or most popular of a particular type of thing as, for example, number one or number two. the world number one, Tiger Woods Before you knew it, the single was at Number 90 in the US singles charts
- number
- number of colour in the sequence
- number
- Text (30) A user-visible identifier of the Accession Typically an integer, but may include alphanumeric characters as prefix, suffix, and separators R I
- number
- 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
- the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals; "he had a number of chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small"; "the figure was about a thousand"
- number
- a concept of quantity derived from zero and units; "every number has a unique position in the sequence"
- number
- Showing the rank 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 №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner
- number
- {i} cypher
- numbest
- superlative of numb
- numbing
- {i} act of making or becoming numb; anesthetization; loss of sense of touch and feeling
- numbing
- present participle of numb
- numbing
- causing numbness or insensitivity; "the numbing effect of grief
- numbing
- causing numbness or insensitivity; "the numbing effect of grief"
- numbingly
- in a numbing manner; in a desensitizing manner
- numbly
- in a numb manner; without feeling; "I stared at him numbly
- numbly
- without feeling; with numbness
- numbly
- in a numb manner; without feeling; "I stared at him numbly"
- numbness
- {i} condition of being numb; loss of sensation
- numbness
- The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion
- numbness
- Absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation
- numbness
- partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body; a symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction