Lack vs. Numbers — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lack and Numbers
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Lack
Deficiency or absence
Lack of funding brought the project to a halt.
Numbers
A member of the set of positive integers; one of a series of symbols of unique meaning in a fixed order that can be derived by counting.
Lack
A particular deficiency or absence
Owing to a lack of supporters, the reforms did not succeed.
Numbers
A member of any of the following sets of mathematical objects
Integers, rational numbers, real numbers, and complex numbers. These sets can be derived from the positive integers through various algebraic and analytic constructions.
Lack
To be without or in need of
Lacked the strength to lift the box.
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Numbers
Numbers Arithmetic.
Lack
To be missing or deficient
We suspected that he was lying, but proof was lacking.
Numbers
A symbol or word used to represent a number.
Lack
To be in need of something
She does not lack for friends.
Numbers
A numeral or a series of numerals used for reference or identification
His telephone number.
The apartment number.
Lack
A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
Numbers
A position in an ordered sequence that corresponds to one of the positive integers
The house that is number three from the corner.
Ranked number six in her class.
Lack
(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
Numbers
One item in a group or series considered to be in numerical order
An old number of a magazine.
Lack
(transitive) To be without, to need, to require.
My life lacks excitement.
Numbers
A total; a sum
The number of feet in a mile.
Lack
(intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
Numbers
An indefinite quantity of units or individuals
The crowd was small in number. A number of people complained.
Lack
To be in want.
Numbers
A large quantity; a multitude
Numbers of people visited the fair.
Lack
(obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
Numbers
Numerical superiority
The South had leaders, the North numbers.
Lack
Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
Numbers
(Grammar) The indication, as by inflection, of the singularity, duality, or plurality of a linguistic form.
Lack
Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.
She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood.
Let his lack of years be no impediment.
Numbers
Metrical feet or lines; verses
"These numbers will I tear, and write in prose" (Shakespeare).
Lack
To blame; to find fault with.
Love them and lakke them not.
Numbers
(Obsolete) Poetic meter.
Lack
To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.
Numbers
Numbers(Archaic) Musical periods or measures.
Lack
To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
What hour now?I think it lacks of twelve.
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty.
Numbers
Numbers (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Games A numbers game.
Lack
To be in want.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger.
Numbers
Numbers (used with a sing. verb) See Table at Bible.
Lack
Exclamation of regret or surprise.
Numbers
One of the separate offerings in a program of music or other entertainment
The band's second number was a march.
Lack
The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable;
There is a serious lack of insight into the problem
Water is the critical deficiency in desert regions
For want of a nail the shoe was lost
Numbers
(Slang) A frequently repeated, characteristic speech, argument, or performance
Suspects doing their usual number—protesting innocence.
Lack
Be without;
This soup lacks salt
There is something missing in my jewellery box!
Numbers
(Slang) A person or thing singled out for a particular characteristic
A crafty number.
Numbers
To assign a number to or mark with a number
Did you number the pages of the report?.
Numbers
To determine the number or amount of; count
Tickets sold for the show were numbered at 500.
Numbers
To total in number or amount; add up to
The ships in the harbor number around 100.
Numbers
To include in a group or category
He was numbered among the lost.
Numbers
To limit or restrict in number
Our days are numbered.
Numbers
To call off numbers; count
Numbering to ten.
Numbers
To have as a total; amount to a number
The applicants numbered in the thousands.
Numbers
Plural of number
Numbers
Many individuals as a group.
Numbers of people have visited the fair.
Numbers
The fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt
Numbers
An illegal daily lottery
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