Number - English meaning

phrasal verb

Come to a specified number or amount.

Usage examples:

This adds up to a total of 400 calories

phrasal verb

To result in something

Usage examples:

The details don't add up to a complete picture of what caused the explosion., the numbers in each r…

phrasal verb

To make a particular amount

Usage examples:

The company's assets add up to $107bn., these changes could add up to a marked improvement for the …

noun

A whole formed by combining several separate elements.

Usage examples:

The council was an aggregate of three regional assemblies

adjective

Formed or calculated by the combination of several separate elements; total.

Usage examples:

The aggregate amount of grants made

verb

Form or group into a class or cluster.

Usage examples:

Socio-occupational groups aggregate men sharing similar kinds of occupation

noun

A quantity of something, especially the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent.

Usage examples:

Sport gives an enormous amount of pleasure to many people

verb

Come to be (the total) when added together.

Usage examples:

Losses amounted to over 10 million pounds

noun

The degree to which something is a lot or a little; how much something is

Usage examples:

She’s made a tremendous amount of progress since the accident., he liked to carry a large amount of…

noun

The mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.

Usage examples:

Running away was not in keeping with her character

verb

Inscribe or write (something).

Usage examples:

You have well charactered him

noun

The particular combination of things about a person or place, esp. things you cannot see, that make that person or place different from others

Usage examples:

[ c ] the idea was to modernize the house without changing its homey character., [ u ] it’s a theat…

noun

A secret or disguised way of writing; a code.

Usage examples:

He wrote cryptic notes in a cipher

verb

Put (a message) into secret writing; encode.

Usage examples:

He left two, as yet uncracked, ciphered messages for posthumous decoding

verb

(of an organ pipe) sound continuously.

phrasal verb

Cause to experience suddenly

verb

To move or travel toward the speaker or with the speaker

Usage examples:

Will you come here, please?, did you come here by car?, come on in! the water’s great., are you com…

noun

A thing made to be similar or identical to another.

Usage examples:

The problem is telling which is the original document and which the copy

verb

Make a similar or identical version of; reproduce.

Usage examples:

Each form had to be copied and sent to a different department

verb

To produce something that is exactly like another thing, or to do something meant to be like someone or something else

Usage examples:

The design was copied from a 19th-century wallpaper., he copied the file onto a diskette., she writ…

verb

Determine the total number of (a collection of items).

Usage examples:

I started to count the stars i could see

noun

An act of determining the total number of something.

Usage examples:

At the last count, fifteen applications were still outstanding

noun

A foreign nobleman whose rank corresponds to that of an earl.

Usage examples:

He is now a prisoner in a tower of the count's palace

adjective

Relating to or denoting a system of numbers and arithmetic based on the number ten, tenth parts, and powers of ten.

Usage examples:

Decimal arithmetic

noun

A fraction whose denominator is a power of ten and whose numerator is expressed by figures placed to the right of a decimal point.

Usage examples:

Write these decimals as vulgar fractions

adjective

Of a system of counting or money based on the number ten

Usage examples:

Three-fifths expressed as a decimal is 0.6.

verb

Regard or consider in a specified way.

Usage examples:

The event was deemed a great success

verb

To consider or judge

Usage examples:

The president asked congress for authority to take whatever steps he deemed necessary, including th…

verb

To consider or judge something in a particular way

Usage examples:

[ + obj + noun/adj ] the area has now been deemed safe., [ + noun/adj ] we will provide help whene…

noun

Any of the numerals from 0 to 9, especially when forming part of a number.

Usage examples:

This invention was the decimal system of numerals - nine digits and a zero.

noun

Any one of the numbers 0 through 9

Usage examples:

6735 is a four-digit number.

noun

Any one of the ten written numbers 0 to 9

Usage examples:

Your password should contain a mixture of letters and digits., a four-digit/10-digit, etc. number, …

noun

A particular form or version of a published text.

Usage examples:

A paperback edition

noun

A particular form in which a book, magazine, or newspaper is published

Usage examples:

Paperback/hardback edition the paperback/hardback edition of his book is published in july., the re…

noun

A single broadcast of a series of radio or television programmes

Usage examples:

This morning's edition of 'women's hour' is at the earlier time of a quarter to ten.

verb

Mention (a number of things) one by one.

Usage examples:

There is not space to enumerate all his works

verb

To name things separately, one by one

Usage examples:

The salesman enumerated the features of the car.

noun

A number, especially one which forms part of official statistics or relates to the financial performance of a company.

Usage examples:

The trade figures

verb

Have a significant part or role in a situation or process.

Usage examples:

The issue of nuclear policy figured prominently in the talks

noun

A number or an amount

Usage examples:

The collection was valued at $20 million, a figure that might cover the cost of having artists recr…

noun

An idea, feeling, or opinion about something or someone, especially one formed without conscious thought or on the basis of little evidence.

Usage examples:

His first impressions of manchester were very positive

noun

An idea or opinion of what someone or something is like

Usage examples:

It makes a bad impression if you’re late for an interview., [ + that clause ] i get the impression …

noun

A single time that an internet advertisement is seen by a user

Usage examples:

They market a company's product for a fixed rate per 1,000 impressions., this is the second impress…

verb

Impress or stamp (a mark or outline) on a surface.

Usage examples:

Tyre marks were imprinted in the snow

noun

A mark or outline made by pressing something on to a softer substance.

Usage examples:

He made imprints of the keys in bars of soap

verb

To mark a surface by pressing something hard into it

verb

Comprise or contain as part of a whole.

Usage examples:

The price includes dinner, bed, and breakfast

verb

To contain something as a part of something else, or to make something part of something else

Usage examples:

The bill includes tax and service., be included in sth tax and service are included in the bill., […

noun

A number which is not a fraction; a whole number.

Usage examples:

Integer values

noun

A whole number and not a fraction

Usage examples:

The numbers 5, 3, and 0 are integers.

noun

An important topic or problem for debate or discussion.

Usage examples:

The issue of racism

verb

Supply or distribute (something) for use or sale.

Usage examples:

Licences were issued indiscriminately to any company

noun

A subject or problem that people are thinking and talking about

Usage examples:

There continues to be a great deal of debate over the property tax issue., isn’t the need to hire m…

verb

Present as a list of individual items.

Usage examples:

I have itemized the morning's tasks

verb

To list particular things separately

Usage examples:

I always itemize deductions on my income tax.

verb

To list things such as payments or charges separately, usually including details about each

Usage examples:

He was accused of failing to report payments to political consultants and failing to itemize credit…

noun

A figure, symbol, or group of figures or symbols denoting a number.

Usage examples:

Merz began to utilise the fibonacci formula of mathematical progression within his works, transmitt…

adjective

Of or denoting a number.

Usage examples:

There are various scales of values, for example in some groups numeral cards 2-10 score 1 point eac…

noun

A symbol that represents a number

Usage examples:

The numeral 5

noun

The production of books, newspapers, or other printed material.

Usage examples:

The invention of printing

verb

Produce (books, newspapers, etc.), especially in large quantities, by a mechanical process involving the transfer of text or designs to paper.

Usage examples:

A thousand copies of the book were printed

noun

The process or business of producing printed material

Usage examples:

[ c ] the first printing will be 25,000 copies.

noun

The preparation and issuing of a book, journal, or piece of music for public sale.

Usage examples:

The publication of her first novel

noun

A book, magazine, newspaper, or document, or the act of making information or writing available, esp. in a printed form

Usage examples:

[ c ] his writing appears frequently in french, mexican, and canadian publications., [ u ] the publ…

noun

The act of making information, stories, or pictures available to people either in books, newspapers, magazines, etc. or online

Usage examples:

They secured a high court injunction to stop the publication of a misleading advertisement., the ca…

noun

The amount or number of a material or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement.

Usage examples:

The quantity and quality of the fruit can be controlled

noun

A fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute.

Usage examples:

The county is falling short of its quota of blood donations

verb

Establish by calculation.

Usage examples:

His debts were reckoned at £300,000

verb

To calculate an amount based on facts or on your expectations

Usage examples:

Do you reckon this watch has a little value?, [ + that clause ] brusca reckons that the value of al…

verb

To calculate an amount

Usage examples:

Fees are reckoned in euros but can be paid in any currency., the authors reckon that public sector …

noun

A mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation.

Usage examples:

The symbol r in figure 5 represents a gene which is ineffective

verb

Symbolize.

Usage examples:

The first was symbol of the atonement the 2nd was to symbol the carrying away of sins.

noun

A current score or amount.

Usage examples:

That takes his tally to 10 goals in 10 games

verb

Agree or correspond.

Usage examples:

Their signatures should tally with their names on the register

noun

A record or count of a number of items

Usage examples:

The final tally was 21 for and 16 against., [ t ] i need to finish tallying the receipts., [ i ] hi…

adjective

Comprising the whole number or amount.

Usage examples:

A total cost of £4,000

noun

The whole number or amount of something.

Usage examples:

He scored a total of thirty-three points

verb

Amount in number to.

Usage examples:

They were left with debts totalling £6,260

noun

An individual thing or person regarded as single and complete but which can also form an individual component of a larger or more complex whole.

Usage examples:

Large areas of land made up of smaller units

A single undivided whole