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number

number (third-person singular simple present numbers, present participle numbering, simple past and past participle numbered)

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

   Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.

2. (intransitive) 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.

Wikipedia number (plural numbers)

1. (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.

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

2. (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer

   The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.

3. (countable, mathematics) A member of one of several classes: natural numbers,integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions.

   The equation e^i? + 1 = 0 includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, ?, i, and e.

4. (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) 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.

5. Quantity.

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

   His army is vast in number.

6. (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.

   Adjectives and nouns should agree in gender, number, and case.

7. (now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
   • 1635, John Donne, The Triple Foole:

     Griefe brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

8. (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.

   For his second number, he sang ""The Moon Shines Bright"".

9. (countable) (informal) A person
   • 1968 Janet Burroway, The dancer from the dance: a novel, Little, Brown, p40

     I laughed. ""Dont doubt that. Shes a saucy little number.""

   • 1988 Erica Jong, Serenissima, Dell, p214

     ""Signorina Jessica,"" says the maid, a saucy little number, ""your father has gone to his prayers and demands that you come to the synagogue at once [...]""

   • 2005 Denise A. Agnew, Kate Hill & Arianna Hart, By Honor Bound, Elloras Cave Publishing, p207

     He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexy number rubbing up against him.

10. (countable) (informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one
    • 2007 Cesca Martin, Agony Angel: So You Think Youve Got Problems..., Troubador Publishing Ltd, p134

      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.

    • 2007 Lorelei James, Running with the Devil, Samhain Publishing, Ltd, p46

      ""I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky.""

11. (countable) (informal) A telephone number
    • 2001 E. Forrest Hein, The Ruach Project, Xulon Press, p86

      “[...] I wonder if you could get hold of him and have him call me here at Interior. I’m in my office, do you have my number?”

    • 2007 Lindsey Nicole Isham, No Sex in the City: One Virgins Confessions on Love, Lust, Dating, and Waiting, Kregel Publications, p111

      When I agreed to go surfing with him he said, “Great, can I have your number?” Well, I don’t give my number to guys I don’t know.

12. A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
13. (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.
    • 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 12:

      Back at his place again, Doc rolled a number, put on a late movie, found an old T-shirt, and sat tearing it up into short strips [...].

number

1. comparative form of numb: more numb

Definizione dizionario number

	numero
	numeral
	mathematical number
	used to show the rank of something in a list or sequence
	abstract entity
	grammar: state of being singular, dual or plural
	performance
	quantity
	An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
	A member of one of several classes: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions.

	numerare
	label with numbers; assign numbers to

	cifra
	numeral

	quantità
	quantity

	ammontare
	to total; to amount to

annoverare

calcolare

contare

conto

fascicolo

novero

numerale

quantitativo

somma

Altri significati:

comparative form of numb: more numb

(countable) (informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one

(intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.

(countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.

(slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.

(countable) (informal) A person

(Followed by a numeral; used attributively) 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

A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, auotmobiles, and various other items.

(countable) (informal) A telephone number

(countable, mathematics) A member of one of several classes: natural numbers,integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions.

(grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.

(now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.

number (one)

number (of things)

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

(countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.

(countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer

Quantity.