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📖 Определения и значения для слова number

📒 a word or symbol that represents an amount or a quantity

  • Think of a number and multiply it by two.
  • a high/low number
  • even numbers (= 2, 4, 6, etc.)

📒 used before a figure to show the position of something in a series

  • They live at number 26.
  • The song reached number 5 in the charts.

📒 a set of figures that is used to identify something or communicate by phone, etc.

  • Ask for the customer's name and phone number.
  • Customers can reach us by calling an 0800 number (= a free phone number in the UK).
  • I'm sorry, I think you have the wrong number (= wrong phone number).

📒 a quantity of people or things

  • number of somebody/something A large number of people have applied for the job.
  • In a small number of cases the illness is fatal.
  • The number of homeless people has increased dramatically.

📒 a group or quantity of people

  • one of our number (= one of us)
  • The prime minister is elected by MPs from among their number.

📒 the version of a magazine, etc. published on a particular day, in a particular month, etc.

  • the October number of ‘Vogue’
  • The back numbers of ‘The Times’ were kept in a basement.

📒 a song or dance, especially one of several in a performance

  • They sang a slow romantic number.

📒 a thing, such as a dress or a car, that is admired

  • She was wearing a black velvet number.

📒 the form of a word, showing whether one or more than one person or thing is being talked about

  • The word ‘men’ is plural in number.
  • The subject of a sentence and its verb must agree in number.

📒 following a set of simple instructions identified by numbers

  • painting by numbers

📒 following closely the accepted rules for doing something

📒 an easy job; a pleasant situation that other people would like

  • It’s all right for him—he’s got a very cushy number.

📒 to do something that will harm somebody/something, especially when it feels like it is done deliberately, from a desire to hurt (even if this is not actually the case)

  • Throat cancer did a number on me a few years ago.
  • The Covid-19 pandemic is doing a number on global stock markets.

📒 to know what somebody is really like and what they plan to do

  • He thinks he can fool me but I've got his number.

📒 the time has come when you will die or lose everything

📒 a way of considering an activity, etc. that considers only the number of people doing something, things achieved, etc., not with who or what they are

  • MPs were playing the numbers game as the crucial vote drew closer.

📒 a person who does the same job as you in another organization

  • The Foreign Secretary is currently having talks with his opposite number in the White House.

📒 being in a group makes you safer and makes you feel more confident

📒 being in a group gives you more power

  • There's strength in numbers, so encourage your friends and family to join us.

📒 the combined power, strength or influence of a group

  • They won the argument by sheer weight of numbers.
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