number

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
[ˈnʌmbə]    [ˈnʌ̟mbɚ]|[ˈnɐmbɐ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Quantity of countable things. countable,uncountable
    — Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time.
  2. Something that numbs.
  3. An abstract entity used to describe quantity. countable
    — Zero, one, −1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.
  4. A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer. countable
    — The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.
  5. An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc. countable
    — The equation e#123;i#92;pi#125;#43;1#61;0 includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, #92;pi, i, and e.
  6. 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. attributive,countable,uncountable
    — Horse number 5 won the race.
  7. A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items. countable,uncountable
    — Her passport number is C01X864TN.
  8. A telephone number. countable,informal
    — Let's give her a call. Do you have her number handy?
  9. Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection. countable,uncountable
    — Adjectives and nouns should agree in gender, number, and case.
  10. Poetic metres; verses, rhymes. archaic,countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — Griefe brought to numbers cannot be ſo fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verſe.
  11. A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show. countable
    — For his second number, he sang "The Moon Shines Bright".
  12. A group of people. countable,formal,singular,singular-only,uncountable
    — I include myself in their number.
  13. A person. countable,informal
    — I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number."
  14. An outfit, particularly a stylish one. countable,informal
    — The trouble was I was wearing my backless glittering number from the night before underneath, so unless I could persuade the office it was National Fancy Dress Day I was doomed to sweat profusely in bottle blue.
  15. A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer. US,countable,slang,uncountable
    — These were the two that Tommy had chosen to collect a debt owed to his family by a dude named Heath who ran numbers out of a grocery store on 131st and Lenox.
  16. An issue of a periodical publication. countable,dated,uncountable
    — the latest number of a magazine
  17. A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance. countable,uncountable
    — Despite last week's woes, the Braves still sport numbers that would make Christie Brinkley blush.
  18. An activity; assignment; job, as in cushy number. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To total or count; to amount to. intransitive
    — I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.
  2. To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number. transitive
    — The old man knew that his days were numbered.
  3. To count; to determine the quantity of. archaic,literary,transitive
    — The king ordered that all his subjects be numbered.
  4. To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items). transitive
    — Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
  5. To call out and assign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting. transitive
    — Shelley numbered off the group into two teams for the baseball game.
  6. To enumerate or list, especially while assigning numbers to. transitive
    — I numbered them off on my fingers as I stated them. “First, I would redeem a small amount of my investment assets to pay off the cleared lot and come up with a down payment for the ten acres. Second, I would seek to obtain an open[…]
  7. To classify or include (in a group of things) transitive,usually
    — Alexander the Great's army numbered an elite cavalry among its ranks.
  8. To be classified or included (in a certain group or category of things). intransitive,usually
    — Her horses number among the fastest in her country.
形容词 adj.
  1. comparative form of numb: more numb comparative,form-of

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
下位词
0800 number 11 o'clock number 800 number 900 number Abbe number abbreviated number accession number account number acid number aggregation number aircraft registration number all-figure number angel number A number a number of any number of apocalyptic number Archimedes number Armstrong number atomic mass number atomic number Atwood number autonumber Avogadro's number azimuthal quantum number back number Bacon number Bagnold number baryon number basic reproduction number basic reproductive number Bates number Bejan number bib number Biot number book-number book number box number call number carbon number cetane number chromosome number contact number control number coordination number copy number critical Reynolds number crooked number crossnumber Cullum number curb number Cutter number devil's number dial number diamond number disc number Dunbar's number edge number electron number element number E number Erdos number falling number false number 9 fax number fixed-point number flight number floating-point number f-number frame number Fresnel number Froude number furry number GLIDE number God's number Grabovoi number Greek number Hagberg number Hodges number Hopf number Horowitz number house number illegal number iodine number IP number item number Kenn number Kirschner number Knudsen number Köchel number Laws number lepton number line number L-number lot number Mach number magic number magnetic quantum number mass number matching numbers mesh number Messier number mobile number model number motor octane number national insurance number natural numbers NI number nothing-up-my-sleeve number nucleon number number 10 number 2 number 8 number eight numberless number needed to harm number nine number one number ten number two numeral occupation number octane number opposite number orbital quantum number oxidation number part number personal identification number phone number PIN number pitting resistance equivalent number Polenske number Prandtl number preferred number premium-rate telephone number principal quantum number private enterprise number proton number quantum number random number registration number regnal number Reichert-Meissl number Reichert-Meissl-Wollny number research octane number Reynolds number Richardson number ringer equivalence number R number roll number Roud number round number Rouse number routing number seed number serial number sex number sieve number silent number social insurance number social-security number social security number spin quantum number Stephanus number street number Strouhal number student number subnumber sunspot number tailnumber tail number telephone number tone number total base number unique identification number unknown number vanity number vehicle identification number version number Weber number weed number Wolf number Wratten number wrong number Zürich number quaternion algebraic integer quadratic integer
衍生词
abstract analytic number theory additive number theory age ain't nothing but a number age is just a number algebraic number field algebraic number theory algorithmic number theory analytic number theory A number 1 a number of any number of by-the-numbers by the numbers call someone's number cloud number nine color by number color by numbers computational number theory copy number polymorphism copy-number variant copy number variation crunch numbers cushy number denumber do a number on do number one do numbers do number two extended real number system false number 9 file off the serial numbers fixed-point number genuine number eleven geometry of numbers get someone's number have one's number on it have someone's number interesting number paradox law of large numbers look for number one look out for number one lose the number of one's mess make one's number make up the numbers misnumber natural numbers object number 10 number 2 number 2 pencil numberable number close number coding number-cruncher number cruncher number-crunching number crunching number density number eight number eleven numberer number field number five number four numberful number game number girl numberhood numberish numberless numberlike number line numberness number nine number one number one with a bullet numberous number pad number plate number prefix number ray number sentence number seven numbers game number sign number six numbers juggling numbers-matching numbersome numbers racket numbers station number system numbertaker number ten number-theoretic number-theoretical number-theoretically number-theoretic function number theoretician number theorist number theory number three number two Numberwang numberwork numbery numerical one's number is up outnumber overnumber paint-by-numbers paint by numbers painting by numbers plate number coil play number two prenumber prime number theorem pseudo-random number generator pseudorandom number generator public enemy number one random number generator random number god real number line real number system renumber rookie numbers safety in numbers single-number someone's number is up take a number there is safety in numbers there is strength in numbers times without number transcendental number theory turn a number of shades of red what is your phone number what number what's your phone number whole numbers without number English terms starting with
相关词
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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nem-
Proto-Italic *nomezos
Latin numerus
Anglo-Norman noumbrebor.
Middle English nombre
English number
Inherited from Middle English number, nombre, numbre, noumbre, from Anglo-Norman noumbre, Old French nombre, from Latin numerus (“number”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to divide”). Compare Saterland Frisian Nummer, Nuumer, West Frisian nûmer, Dutch nummer (“number”), German Nummer (“number”), Danish nummer (“number”), Swedish nummer (“number”), Icelandic númer (“number”). Replaced Middle English ȝetæl and rime, more at tell, tale and rhyme.
词源 2
From numb (adjective) + -er.
词源 3
Equivalent to numb (verb) + -er
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