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NUMBERS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An illegal daily lottery
Synonyms:
numbers; numbers game; numbers pool; numbers racket
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("numbers" is a kind of...):
drawing; lottery (players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt
Synonyms:
Book of Numbers; Numbers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("Numbers" is a part of...):
Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)
Laws; Pentateuch; Torah (the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb number
Context examples:
While they also occur under normal conditions, the towers appear to form in greater numbers during global storms.
(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)
Antibiotic treatment increased the numbers of a type of immune cell called NKT cells in the livers of the mice.
(Study finds gut microbiome can control antitumor immune function in liver, National Institutes of Health)
Their numbers fell by 83 per cent in 2016 and 94 per cent in 2017.
(Mosquitos rendered infertile by biological engineering, SciDev.Net)
Leukemia is a cancer that starts in blood-forming tissue, such as the bone marrow, and causes large numbers of abnormal blood cells to be produced and enter the blood.
(Cancer, NCI Dictionary)
They may be present in very small numbers in the tumor and may not be present in all tumors.
(Cancer Stem Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
A finding of low numbers of red and white blood cells and platelets in the peripheral blood.
(Pancytopenia, NCI Thesaurus)
A scale that uses ordered numbers where the difference between successive designations may not be constant.
(Ordinal Scale, NCI Thesaurus)
They had the advantage of numbers, of course, but we had the advantage of arms.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Through the open sitting-room window I saw a huge, swarthy man with a bristling black beard walking slowly down the centre of the street and staring eagerly at the numbers of the houses.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There are six thousand men-at-arms with ten squadrons of slingers as far as I may judge their numbers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
