number in Kashmiri कॉशुर
number in Marathi मराठी
number in Sindhi سنڌي
number in Tamil தமிழ்
number in English
- number⇄expr. beyond number, too many to count.
Ex. There were people beyond number at the circus. - number⇄expr. do a number on, (U.S. Slang.)
a. to make fun of.
Ex. Fearless Johnny Carson ... did a number on his new boss, NBC president Fred Silverman ... with this line: ""Freddy Silverman has just canceled his mother"" (New York Post).
b. - number⇄expr. numbers,
a. arithmetic.
Ex. He is very clever at numbers.
b. many.
Ex. There were numbers who stayed out of school that day.
c. being greater or more.
Ex. to win a battle by force of numbers.
d. poetry; - number⇄expr. one's number is up, (Informal.) one is doomed.
Ex. When the bandits ambushed the stagecoach, the driver was sure that his number was up. - number⇄expr. without number, too many to be counted.
Ex. stars without number. - number⇄noun numberer.
- number⇄noun 1. the amount of units; count or sum of a group of things or persons; total.
Ex. The number of your fingers is ten. The number of boys in our class is twenty.
2a. a word that tells exactly how many. Two, fourteen, twenty-six are cardina - number⇄number, noun, verb.
- number⇄v.i. 1. to make a count.
Ex. Many of us can number automatically.
2. to be numbered or included with.
Ex. Tho' thou numberest with the followers of one who cried ""leave all and follow me"" (Tennyson). - number⇄v.t. 1. to give a number to; mark with a number; distinguish with a number.
Ex. The pages of this book are numbered.
2. to be able to show; have; contain.
Ex. This city numbers a million inhabitants.
3. to be or amount to a give