number

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UK /ˈnʌmbər/ US [ˈnʌ̟mbɚ(ɹ)]

noun 6verb 5

Collocations

(noun.) quantity/amount

ADJ

considerable, enormous, great, huge, inordinate, large, substantial, vast

record

A record number of students applied to the university this year.

disproportionate, surprising

fair, reasonable, significant

A reasonable number of students attended the workshop, though we had hoped for more.

finite, infinite

The library contains a finite number of books that students can borrow each semester.

equal

Both teams scored an equal number of points in the final match.

maximum, minimum | average, mean, median | adequate, sufficient | limited, small | growing, increasing, rising

exact, precise

Nobody knows the exact number of people who watched the concert online last night.

indefinite, unspecified | approximate | total

VERB + NUMBER

grow in, increase in

More and more electric cars are growing in number on city streets every year.

decrease in, reduce in

NUMBER + VERB

double, grow, increase

decline, diminish, drop, dwindle, fall (off/down)

The number of visitors to the museum dropped significantly after they raised the admission price.

PREP

in ~

The students in the class were thirty in number, so they split into two groups.

PHRASES

a decline/drop in numbers

Fewer buses are running because there has been a drop in numbers of passengers.

a growth/an increase in numbers, few/limited/small in number

The volunteers who showed up to help were limited in number, but they worked very hard.

(noun.) for identifying sb/sth

ADJ

account, identity, registration, serial, etc. | flat, house

PREP

at ~

The office is located at number 15 on the main street downtown.

(noun.) telephone number

ADJ

fax, phone, telephone | home, office, work

wrong

When I called the restaurant, I realized I had written down the wrong number.

VERB + NUMBER

call, dial, phone, ring | get

(verb.)

ADV

clearly | consecutively, sequentially

PREP

according to, by

The seats in the theater are numbered according to their location in each section.

from, to

The teacher asked us to number the pages from one to fifty.

Definitions

noun

Quantity.

Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time.

There are, in addition to all the red socks, a number that don’t suit me either.

An abstract entity used to describe quantity.

Zero, one, −1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.

A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.

The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.

The former FBI director James Comey has said it did not occur to him that that the numbers 8647 – which he spotted spelled out in seashells on a beach, and posted on social media – could be interpreted as a call to assassinate the president, as many supporters of Donald Trump have claimed.

An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.

The equation e#123;i#92;pi#125;#43;1#61;0 includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, #92;pi, i, and e.

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.

verb

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.

Do they number in the hundreds, do they number in the thousands? Do they number in the tens of thousand?

To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number.

The old man knew that his days were numbered.

THE DAYS OF ENGLAND NOT “NUMBERED.” REPLY TO SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON.

To count; to determine the quantity of.

The king ordered that all his subjects be numbered.

Who can number all the stars and who can count the desert sands?

To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).

Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.

“Public Health Service Numbered Publications – A Catalog, 1950-1962” and contains those numbered publications issued during the period 1963-64.

To call out and assign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting.

Shelley numbered off the group into two teams for the baseball game.

I counted them and numbered them off, and I found about three hundred and seventy or three hundred and seventy-five.

noun

Something that numbs.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quant

figure

noun — one of a series published periodically

issue

noun — a symbol used to represent a number

numeral

noun — a short performance that is part of a longer program

verb — enumerate

list

verb — determine the number or amount of

verb — add up in number or quantity

verb — put into a group

count

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

number one with a bullet

Superlative; impossible to beat.

We're going down, down in an earlier round / And sugar, we're going down swinging / I'll be your number one with a bullet / A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it

number one

First; foremost; best, often used after its headword.

Commuting to work is the number one reason to own a car.

what's your phone number

Asks the interlocutor to give their phone number for subsequent communication.

do a number on

To damage, especially to a significant extent; to treat harshly; to produce ill effects in.

Last night, Harris went the distance and did a number on the Falcons, running for a career-high 141 yards while carrying the ball more often than he ever has.

wrong number

A telephone number dialled by mistake, for example, by transposing digits.

I am sorry. You have the wrong number. — Oh. Is this 555-8986? — No. This is 555-8689. — Oh. Excuse me! — Okay. Bye.

Example Bank

Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time.

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There are, in addition to all the red socks, a number that don’t suit me either.

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From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happ

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I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.

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Do they number in the hundreds, do they number in the thousands? Do they number in the tens of thousand?

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The old man knew that his days were numbered.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, number is marked as archaic, literary. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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