NUMBERED
Verb
numbered
simple past tense and past participle of number
Anagrams
• denumber, emburden, renumbed
Source: Wiktionary
NUMBER
Num"ber, n. Etym: [OE. nombre, F. nombre, L. numerus; akin to Gr.
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.)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: 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.
Num"ber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numbered; p. pr & vb. n. Numbering.]
Etym: [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.
NUMB
Numb, a. Etym: [OE. nume, nome, prop., seized, taken, p. p. of nimen
to take, AS. niman, p. p. numen. *7. See Nimble, Nomad, and cf.
Benumb.]
1. Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion;
rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are
numb with cold. "A stony image, cold and numb." Shak.
2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night. [Obs.]
Shak.
Numb, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Numbing.]
Definition: To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion;
to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.
For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. Dryden.
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition