Number

(noun.) an item of merchandise offered for sale; 'she preferred the black nylon number'; 'this sweater is an all-wool number'.

(noun.) a clothing measurement; 'a number 13 shoe'.

(noun.) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals; 'he had a number of chores to do'; 'the number of parameters is small'; 'the figure was about a thousand'.

(noun.) the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural); 'in English the subject and the verb must agree in number'.

(noun.) a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification; 'she refused to give them her Social Security number'.

(noun.) a select company of people; 'I hope to become one of their number before I die'.

(noun.) a concept of quantity involving zero and units; 'every number has a unique position in the sequence'.

(verb.) place a limit on the number of.

(verb.) enumerate; 'We must number the names of the great mathematicians'.

(verb.) give numbers to; 'You should number the pages of the thesis'.

整理:怀亚特

• I hadn't any particular work to give him, but I had a number of small induction coils, and to give him something to do I told him to fix them up and sell them among his sailor friends. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In May, 1915, they sank the great passenger liner, the _Lusitania_, without any warning, drowning a number of American citizens. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He took a neat little leather case out of a drawer, and opening it he exhibited a number of shining instruments. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I started in to make a number of these lamps, but I soon found that the X-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally, so that his hair came out and his flesh commenced to ulcerate. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The figures are the number of typhoid deaths occurring yearly out of 100,000 inhabitants. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Number Three, Four, Five, often. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• This machine contains a number of rotating beaters and high-pressure streams of water. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• She determined to call upon them and seek safety in numbers. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Great numbers of his most sober and valuable subjects were driven abroad by his religious persecutions, taking arts and industries with them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Mexicans used to capture these in large numbers and bring them into the American settlements and sell them. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Up to that time I had not occupied any place in the South where the citizens were at home in any great numbers. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• They were in what is called a good position, and visited, and were visited by, numbers of people. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Numbers of people were there before me, all running in one direction, to the beach. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• So soon as a government departs from that standard, it ceases to be anything more than the gang in possession, and its days are numbered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the still uncultivated wilds of America, what wonder that among its other giant destroyers, Plague should be numbered! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The objects of my visit, he went on, quite irrepressibly, are numbered on my fingers. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Among the technical w ritings of Varro besides the book on agriculture, which is extant, are numbered works on law, mensuration, and naval tactics. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The presence of high overtones in the oboe and the presence of odd-numbered overtones in the clarinet enable us to distinguish without fail the sounds given out by these instruments. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• THESE events occupied so much time, that June had numbered more than half its days, before we again commenced our long-protracted journey. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It greatly helped them to have these points and aphorisms numbered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The enemy had taken a strong natural position with most of the Grand Gulf garrison, numbering about seven or eight thousand men, under General Bowen. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Each firm had its own army of boys, numbering from twelve to fifteen, whose duties were to ascertain the latest quotations from the different exchanges. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• My respite was short-lived however, for soon the entire party, numbering some thousand men, came charging into view, racing madly toward me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• There are now on their way to join you three other brigades of the best cavalry, numbering at least five thousand men and horses. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There is one more industry, though of comparatively small extent, that is included in the activities of the Orange works, namely, the manufacture and sale of the Bates numbering machine. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Included in these sixty thousand troops, there were two small divisions of cavalry, numbering altogether about four thousand men. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• In numbering the group of buildings, the galvanometer-room is No. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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