an item of merchandise offered for sale; "she preferred the black nylon number"; "this sweater is an all-wool number"
a clothing measurement; "a number 13 shoe"
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"
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"
a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification; "she refused to give them her Social Security number"
a select company of people; "I hope to become one of their number before I die"
a concept of quantity derived from zero and units; "every number has a unique position in the sequence"
place a limit on the number of
enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians"
give numbers to; "You should number the pages of the thesis"
throughout the entire extent; "got soaked through in the rain"; "I'm frozen through"; "a letter shot through with the writer's personality"; "knew him through and through"; "boards rotten through and through"
over the whole distance; "this bus goes through to New York"
in diameter; "this cylinder measures 15 inches through"
from beginning to end; "read this book through"
to completion; "think this through very carefully!"
(sometimes followed by `to') meeting the requirements especially of a task; "she had adequate training"; "her training was adequate"; "she was adequate to the job"
about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"
enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough"
the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven"
a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
(physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate"
a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males"