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Number can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.
number used as a verb:
- To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
"Number the baskets so that we can find them easily." - To total or count; to amount to.
"I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
number used as an adjective:
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
number used as a noun:
- An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
"Zero, one, -1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers." - A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer
"The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke." - A member of one of several classes: natural numbers,integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions.
"The equation e^{i\pi}+1=0 includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, \pi, i, and e." - Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
"Horse number 5 won the race." - Quantity.
"Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time" - Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
"Adjectives and nouns should agree in gender, number, and case." - A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
"For his second number, he sang "The Moon Shines Bright"."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is number?
- Verb usage: Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
- Verb usage: I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.
- Noun usage: Zero, one, -1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.
- Noun usage: The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.
- Noun usage: The equation e^{i\pi}+1=0 includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, \pi, i, and e.
- Noun usage: Horse number 5 won the race.
- Noun usage: Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time
- Noun usage: His army is vast in number.
- Noun usage: Adjectives and nouns should agree in gender, number, and case.
- Noun usage: For his second number, he sang "The Moon Shines Bright".
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of number are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of number, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
