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verb

Number v. t. (past & past part. numbered; pres. part. numbering)

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."

To reckon as one of a collection or multitude. "He was numbered with the transgressors."

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.

To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand. "Thy tears can not number the dead."

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

Synonyms: To count; enumerate; calculate; tell.

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Etymology of 'Numbering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Numbering" Quotes from Famous Books

... English girls. This picturesque practice prevails all through the United States, where the dry brilliancy of the climate and skies is favorable to the paying and receiving this melodious homage, and where musical bands, sometimes numbering fifty, are marshaled by personal or political admirers, under the balconies of reigning beauties or would-be-reigning public men. My total ignorance of this prevailing practice in the United States led to a very prosaic demonstration of gratitude on my part ...

— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

... comely. There is not a living man on the earth who has not ground for giving praise to God every day, and all day. Nor does his prayer necessarily transgress the strict limits of truth when he says, "God, I thank thee that I am not as other men." If he had been employed in numbering the mercies of God—if he had meditated on his privileges, till he was lost in wonder, that so many benefits had been conferred on one so worthless, he might with truth have burst into the exclamation, "I am not as other ...

— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot

... and mourn for those, Crushed down by Slavery's iron hand, And feel, while numbering o'er their woes, Strength for the ...

— Hymns for Christian Devotion - Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination • J.G. Adams

... all passages unfit for a boy to read, and renumbered all the lines in text and references, and it seemed best not to put the old numbering side by side with the new, except in the Grammatical Appendices. It has been necessary to alter the text, though very slightly, in ...

— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce

... at sun-rising on the 19th of February from the bay which is half a league beyond Massua and half a league from the land. This day was very close and rainy, and numbering our fleet I found 64 rowing vessels; that is 3 galliots, eight small gallies, and 35 foists[285]. By night our north-west wind lulled, and it blew a little from the west. In the second watch it came on to rain; ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI - Early English Voyages Of Discovery To America • Robert Kerr

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