: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.
As of Thursday, over a quarter-million people in the United States had died of covid-19 as the number of confirmed cases continues to skyrocket.
They may use a number that you know, such as one from a son, daughter or friend.
It’s the 16th straight day that the region’s average daily number of cases has hit a record.
Wisconsin secluded more students at school than any other state and was second only to Texas in the number of students restrained in the 2017-18 school year, the analysis shows.
The number of users who pick up books they have put on hold using the online library system, rather than browsing the shelves and then making a selection, increased from 37 percent in 2013 to 50 percent last year.
This group was far larger, its procession stretching out over two to three city blocks and numbering more than a hundred.
I figure out the approximate outline, the sequence of subject matter for the chapter, numbering the material.
The activists there—numbering about 55 or 60 by nine in the evening yesterday—were harshly critical of Obama.
The Republicans, now numbering 47, could filibuster anything they wish.
Now numbering 5,000 across the country, charters receive tax dollars to operate with considerable autonomy and innovation.
There was a famous Bar, including all the big-wigs of course, and some lesser wigs, and numbering more than twenty in all.
This additional line is numbered 480 in the editions; so I omit l. 480 in the .
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.