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Total vs. Number — What's the Difference?

Total vs. Number — What's the Difference?

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Total

Comprising the whole number or amount
A total cost of £4,000

Number

A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure, and label. The original examples are the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth.

Total

Complete; absolute
A total stranger
It is a matter of total indifference to me

Number

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.

Total

The whole number or amount of something
In total, 200 people were interviewed
He scored a total of thirty-three points
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Number

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.

Total

Amount in number to
They were left with debts totalling £6,260

Number

Numbers Arithmetic.

Total

Damage (something, typically a vehicle) beyond repair; wreck
He almost totalled the car

Number

A symbol or word used to represent a number.

Total

An amount obtained by addition; a sum.

Number

A numeral or a series of numerals used for reference or identification
His telephone number.
The apartment number.

Total

The whole amount of something; the entirety
The storm damaged the total of the housing units.

Number

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.

Total

Of, relating to, or constituting the whole amount; entire
The total population of the city.

Number

One item in a group or series considered to be in numerical order
An old number of a magazine.

Total

Complete; utter; absolute
Total concentration.
A total effort.
A total fool.

Number

A total; a sum
The number of feet in a mile.

Total

To determine the total of; add up
They totaled the applications at 600.

Number

An indefinite quantity of units or individuals
The crowd was small in number. A number of people complained.

Total

To equal a total of; amount to
The week's receipts totaled more than $90,000.

Number

A large quantity; a multitude
Numbers of people visited the fair.

Total

To wreck completely; demolish
The driver survived the crash but totaled the car.

Number

Numerical superiority
The South had leaders, the North numbers.

Total

To add up; amount
It totals to $25.

Number

(Grammar) The indication, as by inflection, of the singularity, duality, or plurality of a linguistic form.

Total

An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.

Number

Metrical feet or lines; verses
"These numbers will I tear, and write in prose" (Shakespeare).

Total

Sum.
The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.

Number

(Obsolete) Poetic meter.

Total

Entire; relating to the whole of something.
The total book is rubbish from start to finish.
The total number of votes cast is 3,270.

Number

Numbers(Archaic) Musical periods or measures.

Total

(used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
He is a total failure.

Number

Numbers (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Games A numbers game.

Total

(mathematics) (of a function) Defined on all possible inputs.
The Ackermann function is one of the simplest and earliest examples of a total computable function that is not primitive recursive.

Number

Numbers (used with a sing. verb) See Table at Bible.

Total

(transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.
When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.

Number

One of the separate offerings in a program of music or other entertainment
The band's second number was a march.

Total

To equal a total of; to amount to.
That totals seven times so far.

Number

(Slang) A frequently repeated, characteristic speech, argument, or performance
Suspects doing their usual number—protesting innocence.

Total

To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.

Number

(Slang) A person or thing singled out for a particular characteristic
A crafty number.

Total

(intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
It totals nearly a pound.

Number

To assign a number to or mark with a number
Did you number the pages of the report?.

Total

Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.

Number

To determine the number or amount of; count
Tickets sold for the show were numbered at 500.

Total

The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

Number

To total in number or amount; add up to
The ships in the harbor number around 100.

Total

To bring to a total; also, to reach as a total; to amount to.

Number

To include in a group or category
He was numbered among the lost.

Total

To determine the total of (a set of numbers); to add; - often used with up; as, to total up the bill.

Number

To limit or restrict in number
Our days are numbered.

Total

To damage beyond repair; - used especially of vehicles damaged in an accident; as, he skid on an ice patch and totaled his Mercedes against a tree. From total loss.

Number

To call off numbers; count
Numbering to ten.

Total

The whole amount

Number

To have as a total; amount to a number
The applicants numbered in the thousands.

Total

A quantity obtained by addition

Number

(countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
Zero, one, −1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.

Total

Add up in number or quantity;
The bills amounted to $2,000
The bill came to $2,000

Number

(countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.

Total

Determine the sum of;
Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town

Number

An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
The equation e^{i\pi}+1=0 includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, \pi, i, and e.

Total

Constituting the full quantity or extent; complete;
An entire town devastated by an earthquake
Gave full attention
A total failure

Number

(Followed by a numeral; used attributively) 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.

Total

Including everything;
The overall cost
The total amount owed

Number

Quantity.
Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time.

Total

Without conditions or limitations;
A total ban

Number

A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
Her passport number is C01X864TN.

Total

Complete in extent or degree and in every particular;
A full game
A total eclipse
A total disaster

Number

A telephone number.

Number

(grammar) 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.

Number

Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.

Number

(countable) 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".

Number

A person.

Number

An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one.

Number

A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer.

Number

(dated) An issue of a periodical publication.
The latest number of a magazine

Number

A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.

Number

A large amount of damage

Number

(transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.

Number

(intransitive) 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.

Number

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.

Number

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.

Number

A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.

Number

Numerousness; multitude.
Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.

Number

The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
Of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds out of number.

Number

Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.

Number

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.

Number

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.

Number

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.

Number

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.

Number

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

Number

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.

Number

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

Number

The property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals;
He had a number of chores to do
The number of parameters is small
The figure was about a thousand

Number

A concept of quantity derived from zero and units;
Every number has a unique position in the sequence

Number

A short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program;
He did his act three times every evening
She had a catchy little routine
It was one of the best numbers he ever did

Number

A numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification;
She refused to give them her Social Security number

Number

The number is used in calling a particular telephone;
He has an unlisted number

Number

A symbol used to represent a number;
He learned to write the numerals before he went to school

Number

One of a series published periodically;
She found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waitingroom

Number

A select company of people;
I hope to become one of their number before I die

Number

The grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural);
In English the subject and the verb must agree in number

Number

An item of merchandise offered for sale;
She preferred the black nylon number
This sweater is an all-wool number

Number

A clothing measurement;
A number 13 shoe

Number

Add up in number or quantity;
The bills amounted to $2,000
The bill came to $2,000

Number

Give numbers to;
You should number the pages of the thesis

Number

Enumerate;
We must number the names of the great mathematicians

Number

Put into a group;
The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members

Number

Determine the number or amount of;
Can you count the books on your shelf?
Count your change

Number

Place a limit on the number of

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