n. 数, 数字, 数目, 号码

vt. 数, 计算, 共计

vi. 计算, 报数

[计] 数字

[医] 数, 值

[经] 数, 数字, 号码

Number \Num"ber\ (n[u^]m"b[~e]r), n. [OE. nombre, F. nombre, L.
numerus; akin to Gr. no`mos that which is dealt out, fr.
ne`mein to deal out, distribute. See {Numb}, {Nomad}, and cf.
{Numerate}, {Numero}, {Numerous}.]
1. That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or
an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection
of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things
expressible by figures.

2. A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a
multitude; many.

Ladies are always of great use to the party they
espouse, and never fail to win over numbers.
--Addison.

3. A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to
put a number on a door.

4. Numerousness; multitude.

Number itself importeth not much in armies where the
people are of weak courage. --Bacon.

5. The state or quality of being numerable or countable.

Of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds
out of number. --2 Esdras
iii. 7.

6. Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate
things.

7. That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as
divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry,
verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.

I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. --Pope.

8. (Gram.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than
one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two),
expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word;
thus, the singular number and the plural number are the
names of the forms of a word indicating the objects
denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than
one.

9. (Math.) The measure of the relation between quantities or
things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity
which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical
value.

{Abstract number}, {Abundant number}, {Cardinal number}, etc.
See under {Abstract}, {Abundant}, etc.

{In numbers}, in numbered parts; as, a book published in
numbers.


Number \Num"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Numbered}
(n[u^]m"b[~e]rd); p. pr & vb. n. {Numbering}.] [OE. nombren,
noumbren, F. nombrer, fr. L. numerare, numeratum. See
{Number}, n.]
1. To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to
enumerate.

If a man can number the dust of the earth, then
shall thy seed also be numbered. --Gen. xiii.
16.

2. To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.

He was numbered with the transgressors. --Is. liii.
12.

3. To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the
place of in a series by order of number; to designate the
place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses
in a street, or the apartments in a building.

4. To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of;
as, the army numbers fifty thousand.

Thy tears can not number the dead. --Campbell.

{Numbering machine}, a machine for printing consecutive
numbers, as on railway tickets, bank bills, etc.

Syn: To count; enumerate; calculate; tell.