Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - number
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~1 n 1 »NUMBER« a word or sign which represents an amount or a quantity (Add together the following numbers) (1027, 643, and 378. | high/low number) (Choose a fairly low number - under 100, say. | even number (=2, 4, 6, 8, 10 etc) | odd number (=1, 3, 5, 7, 9 etc) | round number (=a number ending in 0)) (I'll give her -17 - no, make it -20. That's a good round number. | be good/no good etc with numbers informal (=to be good, bad etc at calculating things using numbers)) (- see also cardinal number, ordinal number, prime number, whole number) 2 »IN A SET/LIST« a number used to show the position of something in an ordered set or list (We live at 107 Castle Street. | Answer question number 4. | a number 17 bus) (- see also E number, No. 10, number one1) 3 model/account/fax etc number a number used to communicate with someone, to find information about someone or something etc (What is your account number, please?) (- see also box number, PIN, serial number) 4 »TELEPHONE« a telephone number (My new number is 502655. | sb's home/office/work number) (I gave him my home number. | wrong number) ("Is that 70348?" - "No, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.") 5 »CAR« BrE the official series of numbers and letters shown on a motor vehicle; registration number (Did you get the number of the car?) 6 »AMOUNT« also numbers plural an amount of something that can be counted; a quantity (The number of cars on our roads rose dramatically last year. | Estimates put the number of deaths at between three and five thousand. | a large/great/small etc number of also large/great/small etc numbers of) (Doctors believe only a tiny number of people are at risk. | in large/great/small etc numbers) (They were printed in limited numbers. | bring the number of sth to five/ten etc) (This latest bomb brings the number of terrorist attacks this year to seven. | ten/twelve etc in number formal) (A small number of protesters, about 20 in number, gathered outside.) (- see amount1) 7 numbers how many people there are, especially people attending an event or doing an activity together (Can you give me some idea of numbers? | student/client etc numbers) (Visitor numbers increase in the summer.) 8 by (sheer) force/weight of numbers if a group of people is defeated by force of numbers, it is defeated because many more people are attacking or opposing it 9 a number of formal several (She has written a number of articles for the local paper. | a good number of/quite a number of (=a lot of)) (Darke knew a good number of people with government connections. | a number of ways/reasons/factors etc (=various different ways etc)) (These paintings differ from his earlier ones in a number of ways.) any number of (There could be any number of reasons why she's late.) 10 some/none/20 etc of sb's number formal some etc of a group of people (Only three of our number could speak Italian.) 11 »MUSIC« a piece of popular music that forms part of a longer performance (Madonna sang several numbers from her latest album.) (- see also production number) 12 a recent/an old/last month's number BrE a copy of a magazine printed recently, a long time ago etc; issue1 (2) AmE (back number (=an old copy of a magazine)) 13 have sb's number informal to understand something about someone that helps you deal with them (You'll never fool her, Mike - she's got your number!) 14 sb's number is up/has come up informal someone will suffer or be punished (Your number's up Hanks!) 15 black/elegant etc (little) number informal a black etc dress (Sue turned up in a very elegant number.) 16 sb's number comes up someone has the winning number in a competition 17 the number of times I've spoken used to say that you have done something many times, without any result (Honestly, the number of times I've told that girl not to walk home alone.) 18 the numbers an illegal game in the US in which people risk money on the appearance of a combination of numbers in a newspaper (playing the numbers) 19 beyond/without number literary if things are beyond number, there are so many of them that no one could count them all 20 »GRAMMAR« technical the form of a word, depending on whether one thing or more than one thing is being talked about (`Horses' is plural in number, `horse' is singular.) ~2 v 1 to give a number to something that is part of an ordered set or list (They haven't numbered the pages of the report. | All the seats in the theatre are numbered. | number sth (from) 1 to 10/100 etc) (Number the questions 1 to 25. | a numbering system) 2 his/their/its days are numbered someone or something cannot live or continue much longer 3 number several thousands/almost a million etc to be several thousands etc (The crowd numbered at least 7000. | The men on strike now number 5% of the workforce.) 4 number among/ be numbered among formal to be included as one of a particular group (Amis numbers among the best of our younger writers.) 5 literary to count (Who can number the stars?) number off phr v BrE technical if soldiers number off, they call out their number when their turn comes; count off AmE
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(numbers, numbering, numbered) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. A number is a word such as ‘two’, ‘nine’, or ‘twelve’, or a symbol such as 1, 3, or 47. You use numbers to say how many things you are referring to or where something comes in a series. No, I don’t know the room number... Stan Laurel was born at number 3, Argyll Street... The number 47 bus leaves in 10 minutes. N-COUNT: usu with supp 2. You use number with words such as ‘large’ or ‘small’ to say approximately how many things or people there are. Quite a considerable number of interviews are going on... I have had an enormous number of letters from single parents... Growing numbers of people in the rural areas are too frightened to vote. N-COUNT: adj N, usu N of n 3. If there are a number of things or people, there are several of them. If there are any number of things or people, there is a large quantity of them. I seem to remember that Sam told a number of lies... There must be any number of people in my position. N-SING: a/any N, usu N of n 4. You can refer to someone’s or something’s position in a list of the most successful or most popular of a particular type of thing as, for example, number one or number two. ...the world number one, Tiger Woods... Before you knew it, the single was at Number 90 in the US singles charts... N-UNCOUNT: N num 5. If a group of people or things numbers a particular total, that is how many there are. They told me that their village numbered 100... This time the dead were numbered in hundreds, not dozens. VERB: V num, be V-ed in num, also V n in num 6. A number is the series of numbers that you dial when you are making a telephone call. Sarah sat down and dialled a number. ...a list of names and telephone numbers... My number is 414-3925... ‘You must have a wrong number,’ she said. ‘There’s no one of that name here.’ N-COUNT 7. You can refer to a short piece of music, a song, or a dance as a number. ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a an arithmetical value representing a particular quantity and used in counting and making calculations. b a word, symbol, or figure representing this; a numeral. c an arithmetical value showing position in a series esp. for identification, reference, etc. (registration number). 2 (often foll. by of) the total count or aggregate (the number of accidents has decreased; twenty in number). 3 a the study of the behaviour of numbers; numerical reckoning (the laws of number). b (in pl.) arithmetic (not good at numbers). 4 a (in sing. or pl.) a quantity or amount; a total; a count (a large number of people; only in small numbers). b (in pl.) numerical preponderance (force of numbers; there is safety in numbers). 5 a a person or thing having a place in a series, esp. a single issue of a magazine, an item in a programme, etc. b a song, dance, musical item, etc. 6 company, collection, group (among our number). 7 Gram. a the classification of words by their singular or plural forms. b a particular such form. 8 colloq. a person or thing regarded familiarly or affectionately (usu. qualified in some way: an attractive little number). 9 (Numbers) the Old Testament book containing a census. --v.tr. 1 include (I number you among my friends). 2 assign a number or numbers to. 3 have or amount to (a specified number). 4 a count. b include. Phrases and idioms by numbers following simple instructions (as if) identified by numbers. one's days are numbered one does not have long to live. have a person's number colloq. understand a person's real motives, character, etc. have a person's number on it (of a bomb, bullet, etc.) be destined to hit a specified person. number cruncher Computing & Math. sl. a machine capable of complex calculations etc. number crunching the act or process of making these calculations. one's number is up colloq. one is finished or doomed to die. a number of some, several. Usage Use with a plural verb is now standard: a number of problems remain. number one n. colloq. oneself (always takes care of number...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) число, количество считать; насчитывать 2) номер нумеровать 3) цифра 4) показатель; индекс 5) выпуск; экземпляр 6) колонцифра 7) шифр - Abbe number - abstract number - acceptance number - acetone number - acetyl number - acid number - aircraft registration number - airline part number - alkali neutralization number - duodecimal number - engine serial number - essential number - ethyl number - Euler number - even number - extension number - f number - Fibonacci numbers - film batch number - fixed-point number - flash guide number - floating-point number - formolite number - Fourier number - fractional number - frog number - Froude number - fuel performance number - generalized Beale number - generation number - grain-size number - Grashof number - haploid number - hardness number - harmonic number - Hartmann number - hexadecimal number - Horton number - hydroxyl number - multiple number - natural number - n-digit number - negative number - negative aniline number - precipitation number - prime number - principal quantum number - priority number - proper number - pulse number - purely imaginary number - quantum number - radix number - random number - real number - reciprocal number - sieve number - signature number - signed number - skin number - Sligh number - sludge number - special number - Stanton number - state file number - statement number - Stewart number - Stroubal number - unblended octane number - unit number - unsigned number - user number - version number - Vickers hardness number - volatility number - volume serial number - water number - wave number - Weber number - whole number - winding number ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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число количество (в штуках) номер number of bar number of bars number of cycles number of degrees of freedom number of loads per day number of panels in the truss number of pours required for job number of revolutions batch number Beaufort number bridge number Brinell hardness number F numbers flatness number Ff levelness number Fl local F numbers mesh number overall F numbers Poisson number rated number of revolution rebound number R shade number sieve number Taylor's stability number ...Англо-русский строительный словарь
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1) тлф. номер 2) число, количество 3) индекс, показатель – number of satellites – abbreviated number – angular mode number – binary number – called number – carrier number – channel number – channel-to-channel interval number – circuit group number – common-pager number – complex wave number – control number – customer number – enterprise number – even subscriber number – extension number – focal number – forwarding cell number – generation number – green telephone number – group number – harmonic number – hemispherical wave number – home frame number – internal number – international number – level number – local number – logical channel local number – Mach number – mail-box number – maximum-subscribers number – memory-station number – mobile station number – MSCC number – mode number – noise-rating number – odd subscriber number – pole order number – port number – program number – propagation number – pulse number – quick-store phone numbers – random number – read-around number – receiving beam number – reciprocal number – reel number – segment number – sender number – serial number – series number – ship placement area number – stationary number – stored number – Strouhal number – subscriber number – TCP-number – temporary number – toll-free number – transmitting beam number – universal access number – well-known port numbers ...Англо-русский Русско-английски словарь по телекоммуникациям
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1) балл 2) выпуск 3) занумеровать 4) занумеровывать 5) код числа 6) количество 7) колонцифра 8) насчитывать 9) насчитываться 10) номер 11) номерной 12) нумеровать 13) перенумеровать 14) перенумеровывать 15) подсчитывать 16) пронумеровать 17) считать 18) цифровать 19) численность 20) числительное 21) число 22) числовой a great number of — множество, большое количество abrasive grit number — номер зернистости абразива absolutely normal number — абсолютно нормальное число absolutely pseudoprime number — абсолютно псевдопростое число additive number theory — аддитивная теория чисел affix of a complex number — аффикс комплексного числа algebraic number theory — алгебраическая теория чисел almost prime number — почти простое число amplitude of complex number — аргумент комплексного числа analytical number theory — аналитическая теория чисел argument of complex number — аргумент комплексного числа average sample number — средний объем выборки base of a number system — основание системы счисления binary number system — двоичная система счисления binary-coded decimal number — двоично-кодированное десятичное число biquinary-coded decimal number — десятичное число, закодированное двоично-пятеричным кодом calculable real number — вычислимое вещественное число chain index number — цепной индекс complete number scale — полная числовая ось...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. сущ. 1) численность 2) число 3) цифра 4) экземпляр 5) порядковый номер 6) выпуск издания • - absolute number - abstract number - account number - call number - check number - contract number - employer identification number - inventory number - item number - number of addresses - number of items - number of units - number of years - registration number Syn: copy, sample, model, date, figure, order number, ordinal number, numeral 2. гл. нумеровать NUMBER 1) номер 2) число 3) знак 4) выпуск – quite a number – two numbers in one – number of application – number of claims – number of copies printed – number of edition – number of the patent – base number – binary number – commensurable number – decimal number – figure number – filing number – index number – International Standard Book number – inventory number – patent number – priority number – reference number – registration number – serial number – stock number ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1) порядковый номер; число 2) количество 3) pl численность – number of species – acid number – animal numbers – assimilation number – average sample number – basic number – binomial number – chromosome number – coding number – color saponification number – copy number – diploid number – enzymes turnover number – field number – haploid number – iodine number – linking number – modal number – rejection number – Reynolds' number – saponification number – writing number ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. число, количество livestock numbers —- поголовье скота number of copies —- полигр. тираж in number —- численно, числом they are twenty in number —- их двадцать we were few in number —- нас было мало to the number of 10,000 —- в добровольцы записалось до 10 000 человек a large number —- много a large number of people —- масса народу a limited number of cars is available —- поступило в продажу некоторое количество автомашин quite a number of people —- довольно многие (люди) out of number —- бесчисленное множество; несть числа times without number —- бесчисленное множество раз any number —- любое количество; много I have shown him any number of kindnesses —- я оказывал ему множество любезностей many people, myself among the number, think that... —- многие люди, и я в том числе, думают, что... he is not of our number —- он не принадлежит к нашему кругу given equal numbers we should be stronger —- при одинаковой численности мы должны быть сильнее 2. некоторое количество, ряд a number of people —- некоторые (люди); кое-кто a number of accidents always occur on slippery roadways —- на скользкой мостовой всегда происходят несчастные случаи a number of books is missing from the library —- из библиотеки пропал ряд книг 3. большое число, масса in numbers —- в большом количестве; значительными силами in superior numbers —- воен. превосходящей численностью numbers of people came to see the exhibition —- посмотреть...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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plate noun номерной знак (на автомобиле) NUMBER 1. noun 1) число, количество; a number of - некоторое количество; in number - численно, количеством; in (great) numbers - а) в большом количестве; б) значительными силами; out of (или without) number - множество, без числа; a number/numbers of people - много народу 2) номер; motorcars number - номер автомашины; - call number 3) номер (программы) 4) math. сумма, число, цифра; - science of numbers 5) выпуск, номер, экземпляр (журнала и т.п.); - back number 6) gram. число 7) pl.; prosody стихи 8) prosody ритм, размер 9) coll. что-л. выделяющееся, могущее служить образцом number one (или No. 1) - а) свое я; собственная персона; б) первоклассный, самый главный; problem No. 1 самая важная проблема his number goes up - он умирает, его песенка спета, ему крышка Syn: see quantity 2. v. 1) нумеровать 2) числиться, быть в числе (among, in); I am proud to number her among my friends 3) насчитывать; the population numbers 5000 - население составляет 5000 человек 4) причислять, зачислять; to be numbered with - быть причисленным к 5) mil. рассчитываться; - number off 6) obs. считать, пересчитывать; his days are numbered - его дни сочтены NUMBER cruncher noun coll. служащий, занимающийся сложными математическими расчетами NUMBER crunching noun coll. сложные математические расчеты NUMBER off делать перекличку по...Англо-русский словарь
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See: A NUMBER, ANY NUMBER, DAYS ARE NUMBERED, GET ONE'S NUMBER, HOT NUMBER, QUITE A FEW or QUITE A NUMBER. ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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- 13c., from Anglo-Fr. noumbre, from O.Fr. nombre, from L. numerus "a number, quantity," perhaps related to Gk. nemein "to deal out." The meaning "musical selection" is from vaudeville theater programs, where acts were marked by a number. Number one "oneself" is c.1700; the biblical Book of Numbers so called because it contains a census of the Israelites. No., "abbreviation for 'number,' " is from It. numero. Slang number one and number two for "urinate" and "defecate" attested from 1902. Number cruncher is 1966, of machines; 1971, of persons. The numbers "gambling game" is from 1897. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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