“number”

Quantity of countable things.

A telephone number dialled by mistake, for example, by transposing digits.

Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true.

The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.

A certain number (multiple but not all).

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.

A numerical value equal to 2; the number following one and preceding three.

Flat and level.

In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.

before a countable noun: A large, indefinite number of.

A numerical value equal to 3; the number following two and preceding four.

Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.

A large quantity or number; a great deal.

An indefinite, but usually small, number of.

Not the same; exhibiting a difference.

A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

Sufficiently.

A numerical value equal to 4; the number following three and preceding five.

One and only one time.

Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.

Used for constructing syntactic diminutive comparatives of adjectives and adverbs.

A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.

Something actual as opposed to invented.

Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.

A number of different; various.

A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

A representation of information in a computer (as symbols, quantities, sound, images or videos) which is stored, processed or transmitted in the form of electrical signals, records on magnetic tape or punched cards, etc.

The cardinal number 1 000 000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand (1,000²).

The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)

An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).

The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.

Greater in number, quantity, or extent.

A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This number of dots: (••••••).

The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.

Mutual; shared by more than one.

A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82.

An unknown or unspecified number of.

The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.

Two of the same kind connected or considered together.

To collect or gather (something) together.