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| Main Entry: | number |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | count, calculate |
| Synonyms: | account, add, aggregate, amount, come, computer, enumerate, estimate, figure in, include, numerate, reckon, run, run down, sum, tale, tally, tell, total, add up, count heads, count noses, count off, figure out, keep tabs, run into, run to, take account of, tick off*, tote, tote up |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money numerals are symbols; numbers are the things that numerals symbolize |
| Antonyms: | estimate, guess |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | number |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unit of the mathematical system |
| Synonyms: | cardinal, character, cipher, count, digit, emblem, figure, fraction, numeral, prime, representation, sign, sum, symbol, total, chiffer, decimal, denominator, folio, googol, integer, numerator, ordinal, statistic, whole number |
| Antonyms: | letter |
| Main Entry: | number |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aggregate, bunch |
| Synonyms: | abundance, amount, collection, company, conglomeration, crowd, estimate, flock, horde, lot, many, multitude, plenty, product, quantity, sum, throng, total, totality, umpteen, volume, whole, caboodle, jillion, manifoldness, plenitude, slew, zillion |
| Antonyms: | one |
| Main Entry: | numb |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadened, insensitive |
| Synonyms: | aloof, apathetic, asleep, callous, casual, comatose, dazed, dead, detached, disinterested, frozen, indifferent, insensate, insensible, lethargic, listless, paralyzed, phlegmatic, remote, senseless, stupefied, torpid, unconcerned, unconscious, unfeeling, uninterested, anesthetized, benumbed, immobilized, incurious, insentient, numbed, stuporous, uncurious |
| Antonyms: | lively, responsive, sensitive |
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-nouns
number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer; counter; round number; formula; function; series., sum, difference, complement, subtrahend; product; multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator; coefficient, multiple; dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction; mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate; numerator, denominator; decimal, circulating decimal, repetend; common measure, aliquot part; prime number; reciprocal; totient., permutation, combination, variation; election., ratio, proportion, progression; arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression; percentage., figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers., power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm; modulus., differential, integral, fluxion, fluent.
-adjectives
numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable., proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential, fluxional, integral, totitive., positive, negative; rational, irrational; surd, radical, real; complex, imaginary; finite; infinite; impossible.
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| Main Entry: | aggregate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | combine into a collection |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, amass, amount, assemble, collect, combine, come, heap, mix, number, pile, sum, total, add up |
| Antonyms: | break up, disperse, divide |
| Main Entry: | amount |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | equal, add up to |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, approach, approximate, become, correspond, effect, extend, grow, match, mean, number, purport, reach, rival, sum, tally, total, touch, be equivalent to, be tantamount to, check with, come to, develop into |
| Main Entry: | breed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kind, class |
| Synonyms: | brand, character, extraction, family, feather, genus, ilk, line, lineage, lot, nature, number, pedigree, progeny, race, sort, species, stamp, stock, strain, stripe, type, variety, likes |
| Main Entry: | bunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collection of something |
| Synonyms: | agglomeration, assemblage, assortment, band, batch, bevy, blob, bouquet, bundle, chunk, clump, cluster, covey, crew, crowd, fascicle, flock, galaxy, gang, gathering, group, heap, host, hunk, knot, lot, mass, mess, mob, multitude, number, oodles*, pack, parcel, party, pile, quantity, shock, spray, stack, swarm, team, thicket, troop, tuft, caboodle, passel, sheaf, shebang, shooting match |
| Antonyms: | individual, one |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | classify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | categorize |
| Synonyms: | allocate, allot, alphabetize, analyze, arrange, assort, brand, break down, button down, catalogue, class, codify, collocate, coordinate, correlate, dispose, distinguish, distribute, divide, docket, embody, file, grade, group, incorporate, index, label, match, name, number, order, organize, peg*, pigeonhole*, put away, put down as, put down for, range, rank, rank out, rate, regiment, segregate, size, size up, sort, systematize, tab, tabulate, tag, take one's measure, ticket, type, typecast |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | collection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group, accumulation |
| Synonyms: | acquisition, agglomeration, anthology, assemblage, assembly, assortment, batch, clump, cluster, collation, combination, company, compilation, congregation, convocation, crowd, digest, gathering, heap, hoard, kit, levy, lot, mass, medley, mess, miscellany, muster, number, omnibus, pile, quantity, securing, selection, set, stack, stock, stockpile, store, accumulating, acquiring, amassing, amassment, assembling, bringing together, caboodle, congeries, cumulation, mobilization, obtaining |
| Main Entry: | edition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | issue of publication |
| Synonyms: | copy, impression, imprint, number, printing, program, publication, release, version, volume, reissue, reprint, reprinting |
| Main Entry: | encore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | another round of applause; repeat |
| Synonyms: | acclamation, number, plaudits, praise, repetition, response, return, cheers, reappearance, repeat performance |
| Main Entry: | enumerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | list, count |
| Synonyms: | calculate, cite, compute, detail, figure, identify, inventory, itemize, mention, name, number, quote, recapitulate, recite, reckon, recount, rehearse, relate, run down, specialize, specify, spell out, sum, tally, tell, total, add up, count noses, keep tabs, particularize, run off, take account of, tick off* |
| Antonyms: | not count |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | estimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guess, try to value |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, assay, assess, believe, budget, cast, cipher, class, classify, compute, conjecture, consider, count, decide, deduce, determine, enumerate, evaluate, examine, expect, figure, gauge, guess, judge, look into, number, outline, plan, predict, prophesy, rank, rate, reason, reckon, regard, scheme, sum, suppose, surmise, suspect, tax, think, calculate roughly, form opinion, guesstimate, look upon, run over, set a figure, size up*, think through* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frequency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commonness, repetitiveness |
| Synonyms: | abundance, beat, constancy, density, iteration, number, oscillation, persistence, prevalence, regularity, reiteration, repetition, rhythm, frequentness, periodicity, pulsation, recurrence |
| Antonyms: | infrequency, irregularity, uncommonness |
| Main Entry: | include |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | contain, involve |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, add, admit, append, bear, build, carry, combine, comprehend, comprise, consist of, constitute, count, cover, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, entail, enter, have, hold, implicate, incorporate, inject, insert, interject, interpolate, introduce, number, receive, subsume, take in, take into account, allow for, be composed of, be made up of, build in, cut in on, make allowance for, make room for, number among, teem with, work in |
| Antonyms: | eliminate, exclude, neglect, reject |
| Main Entry: | individual |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | singular person, thing |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, child, creature, dude*, entity, existence, human being, man, material, matter, mortal, number, party, person, personage, self, somebody, something, soul, stuff, substance, type, unit, woman, singleton |
| Antonyms: | group |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | involve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | draw in; include |
| Synonyms: | absorb, affect, argue, associate, bind, catch, commit, complicate, comprehend, comprise, compromise, concern, connect, contain, cover, denote, embrace, embroil, engage, engross, enmesh, entail, entangle, grip, hold, hook, implicate, imply, incorporate, incriminate, inculpate, link, mean, mire, mix up*, necessitate, number, presuppose, prove, relate, require, suggest, take in, tangle, touch, point to, preoccupy, rivet, rope in, snarl up, wrap up in |
| Antonyms: | exclude, free, remove |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | itemize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep detailed record |
| Synonyms: | catalog, cite, count, detail, document, enumerate, instance, inventory, lay out, list, mention, number, quote, recite, record, recount, rehearse, relate, specify, spell out, tally, circumstantiate, individualize, particularize, set out |
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