:the sum, total, count, or aggregate of a collection of units, or the like: A number of people were hurt in the accident. The number of homeless children in the city has risen alarmingly.
:a word or symbol, or a combination of words or symbols, used in counting or in noting a total.
:the particular numeral assigned to an object so as to designate its place in a series: house number; license number.
:one of a series of things distinguished by or marked with numerals.
:a certain collection, company, or quantity not precisely reckoned, but usually considerable or large: I've gone there a number of times.
:the full count of a collection or company.
:a collection or company.
:a quantity of individuals: Their number was more than 20,000.
:numbers, a considerable amount or quantity; many: Numbers flocked to the city to see the parade.metrical feet; verse.musical periods, measures, or groups of notes.numbers pool. Informal.the figures representing the actual cost, expense, profit, etc.: We won't make a decision until we see the numbers.Obsolete.arithmetic.
Administration officials note that a number of former employees also have praised the president extensively and that the president has overwhelming support in his own party.
By Sunday, that number will rise to nearly 20 states, including Wisconsin, Georgia, Indiana, Virginia and Rhode Island.
Increasing numbers of rank-and-file Democrats are beginning to question that approach.
Baron Cohen spoke to Kardashian West and helped attract a number of other celebrities, Steyer said.
The exact number of people posting the messages was not clear.
“Our members continue to face a number of challenges,” she said.
The number of dissenters though is unprecedented in the modern era.
Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
The number of diplomats was pitiful (45 appointees in 1860), as was the amount of money allocated to them.
Jett sees this number as a marker of how much the president allows professionals to do the job.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
There are a number of bacilli, called acid-fast bacilli, which stain in the same way as the tubercle bacillus.
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.
quantity as composed of units: to increase the number of eligible voters.
:numerical strength or superiority; complement: The garrison is not up to its full number.
:a tune or arrangement for singing or dancing.
:a single or distinct performance within a show, as a song or dance: The comic routine followed the dance number.
:a single part of a program made up of a group of similar parts: For her third number she played a nocturne.
:any of a collection of poems or songs.
:a distinct part of an extended musical work or one in a sequence of compositions.
:conformity in music or verse to regular beat or measure; rhythm.
:a single part of a book published in a series of parts.
:a single issue of a periodical: several numbers of a popular magazine.
:a code of numerals, letters, or a combination of these assigned to a particular telephone: Did you call the right number?
:Grammar. a category of noun, verb, or adjective inflection found in many languages, as English, Latin, and Arabic, used to indicate whether a word has one or more than one referent. There may be a two-way distinction in number, as between singular and plural, three-way, as between singular, dual, and plural, or more.
:Informal. person; individual: the attractive number standing at the bar.
:Informal. an article of merchandise, especially of wearing apparel, offered for sale: Put those leather numbers in the display window.
:mathematics regarded as a science, a basic concept, and a mode of thought: Number is the basis of science.
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:to mark with or distinguish by numbers: Number each of the definitions.
:to amount to or comprise in number; total: The manuscript already numbers 425 pages.
:to consider or include in a number: I number myself among his friends.
:to count over one by one; tell: to number one's blessings.
:to mention individually or one by one; enumerate: They numbered the highlights of their trip at length.
:to set or fix the number of; limit in number; make few in number: The sick old man's days are numbered.
:to live or have lived.
:to ascertain the number of; count.
:to apportion or divide: The players were numbered into two teams.
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:to make a total; reach an amount: Casualties numbered in the thousands.
:to be numbered or included: Several eminent scientists number among his friends.