Definition of number(s) in English English dictionary
- no-
- no
- Number 10
- The office of the British Prime Minister; the UK Government
There are honourable people in the government and principled advisers working in Number 10, even if their unheralded service is obscured by the crass antics of spin doctors and the demagoguery of some ministers.
- number
- 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.
- number
- Quantity
His army is vast in number.
- number
- Poetic metres; verses, rhymes
Griefe brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
- number
- A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer
The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.
- 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 sequence of digits and letters used to register people, auotmobiles, and various other items
- 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
- To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items)
Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- number
- An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one
I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky..
- number
- Comparative form of numb: more numb
- 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
- An abstract entity used to describe quantity
Zero, one, -1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.
- 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 2
- Alternative spelling of number two
- number 2 pencil
- A standard, ordinary pencil; one which is not colored or mechanical or in any other way unusual
I do the actual writing on my computer, of course, but I find that jotting down notes with a number 2 pencil gets my brain working in a new way, helps me see the facts from a different angle.
- number 2 pencil
- A pencil which produces a specific shade of dark gray. One can usually identify a number 2 pencil by looking for the number "2" conspicuously emblazoned on the pencil. Often required for test-taking and the completion of official forms
Mrs. Landry, I forgot to bring my number two pencils! Does that mean I flunk this test? Big tears filled Joey's eyes.
- number cruncher
- An accountant or other person who deals with the calculation of numbers as a profession
- number crunchers
- plural form of number cruncher
- number eight
- A player in the scrum, who controls the movement of the scrum, and can pick up the ball exiting the scrum
- number eleven
- the batsman who bats last; the worst batsman in the side
- number field
- A field which includes the rational numbers and has finite dimension as a vector space over the rational numbers
- number fields
- plural form of number field
- number games
- The use of inappropriate statistics to reflect a desired result (usually misleading, or omitting critical assumptions.)
- number line
- A line that graphically represents the real numbers as a series of points whose distance from an origin is proportional to their value
- number lines
- plural form of number line
- number needed to harm
- The number, statistically, of people who are exposed to something in order that one of them experience some adverse effect thereof
- number one
- The main goalkeeper of a team, so-called because they wear the number 1 on the back of their kit
- number one
- First; foremost; best
Commuting to work is the number one reason to own a car.
- number one
- oneself, being considered foremost, as by an egoist
- number one
- the single that has sold the most in a given period
- number one
- the most important person, notably who is in charge
- number one
- Urine; urination
- number one with a bullet
- superlative; impossible to beat
- number plate
- Either of a pair of rectangular metal plates, containing a mixture of letters and numbers fixed to the front and rear of a motor car showing that its identity has been registered with the DVLA
- number plates
- plural form of number plate
- number sign
- The character [[Appendix: Unsupported titles/Number sign|
- number sign
- ]] used to represent the word number; the hash sign; also called the pound sign in the US
- number signs
- plural form of number sign
- number system
- A set of numerals for representing numbers
- number theoretician
- A number theorist
- number theoreticians
- plural form of number theoretician
- number theorist
- A mathematician who specializes in number theory
- number theorists
- plural form of number theorist
- number theory
- The branch of pure mathematics concerned with the properties of integers
Factorization has driven many great discoveries in number theory.
- number two
- primary assistant; vice-leader
After showing great promise over the last 10 years, he made her his number two'.
- number two
- a first mate
- number two
- Feces; the act of defecation
I need to go number two.
- number-cruncher
- Alternative spelling of number cruncher
- number-crunching
- Any computing application that requires large amounts of numerical calculation
- number-theoretical
- Of or relating to number theory
The simple question of which numbers are divisible by others leads directly into many deep number-theoretical questions.
- number-theoretically
- In a manner which employs number theory
- number
- {v} to count, tell over, reckon, add
- number
- {n} many units added, poetry, harmony
- number sign
- Number sign (or sometimes number symbol) is a name for the symbol #, which is used for a variety of purposes including, in some countries, the designation of a number (for example, "#1" stands for "number one")
- number symbol
- Number sign (or sometimes number symbol) is a name for the symbol #, which is used for a variety of purposes including, in some countries, the designation of a number (for example, "#1" stands for "number one")
- number
- a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification; "she refused to give them her Social Security number"
- number
- The value must be a number, and is represented textually in the customization buffer
- number
- He cut his paper up into tiny squares, and he numbered each one see also opposite number, prime number, serial number
- number
- an item of merchandise offered for sale; "she preferred the black nylon number"; "this sweater is an all-wool number"
- number
- The number of non-null values found in the data selected
- 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
- A symbol for a non-negative integer; a numeral
- number
- give numbers to; "You should number the pages of the thesis"
- number
- a select company of people; "I hope to become one of their number before I die"
- 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 singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular
- number
- number of colour in the sequence
- number
- give numbers to; "You should number the pages of the thesis
- number
- To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- tests whether its argument is a number
- number
- place a limit on the number of
- 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
- add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000"
- number
- A numeric valued data object The gawk implementation uses double precision floating point to represent numbers
- 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
- A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door
- 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 awk implementation uses double precision floating point to represent numbers
- 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 agreement
- agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction e
- number cruncher
- a computer capable of performing a large number of mathematical operations per second someone able to perform complex and lengthy calculations
- number cruncher
- accountant, bookkeeper
- number crunching
- performing complex and lengthy numerical calculations
- number crunching
- If you refer to number crunching, you mean activities or processes concerned with numbers or mathematical calculation, for example in finance, statistics, or computing. The computer does most of the number crunching. the process of working with a lot of numbers and calculating results
- number line
- A line on which every point represents a real number
- number one
- `take care of number one' means to put your own interests first
- number one
- In popular music, the number one is the best selling CD in any one week, or the group or person who has made that CD. Paula is the only artist to achieve four number ones from a debut album
- number one
- a reference to yourself or myself etc
- number one
- Number one means better, more important, or more popular than anything else of its kind. The economy is the number one issue by far By the way, I'm your number-one fan
- number one enemy
- strongest enemy, most hated enemy
- number sign
- {i} character which symbolizes the word "number", #
- number sign
- The character #, also known as pound sign and hash sign This character is named <number-sign> in the portable character set
- number system
- Any system of naming or representing numbers, as the decimal system or the binary system. Also called numeral system. Method of writing numerals to represent numbers. The use of zero as a placeholder was the greatest advance in number systems. The most common system is the decimal system, in which 10 symbols (the Hindu-Arabic numerals) denote multiples of powers of 10 by their position relative to the decimal point. Computers have brought greater awareness of the binary number system, in which two symbols, 0 and 1, represent multiples of powers of 2
- number theorist
- a mathematician specializing in number theory
- number theory
- Branch of mathematics concerned with properties of and relations among integers. It is a popular subject among amateur mathematicians and students because of the wealth of seemingly simple problems that can be posed. Answers are much harder to come up with. It has been said that any unsolved mathematical problem of any interest more than a century old belongs to number theory. One of the best examples, recently solved, is Fermat's last theorem
- number twenty
- 20
- number two
- assistant, next in line, vice, deputy
