What's the difference between number and numberless?

Number


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.
  • (n.) A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.
  • (n.) Numerousness; multitude.
  • (n.) The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
  • (n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.
  • (n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.
  • (n.) To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (2) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
  • (3) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
  • (4) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
  • (5) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
  • (6) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (7) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
  • (8) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
  • (9) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
  • (10) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (11) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
  • (12) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
  • (13) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
  • (14) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
  • (15) The number of neoplastic cells in each cell suspension was determined by cytologic criteria.
  • (16) aeruginosa and Enterococci) were significantly reduced in number during the manipulation (Fig.
  • (17) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
  • (18) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
  • (19) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
  • (20) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.

Numberless


Definition:

  • (a.) Innumerable; countless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Numberless droplets containing albumin were observed in the renal tissue indicating intense resorption and catabolism in the luminal and basal portions of the proximal convoluted tubules.
  • (2) The case reports include 196 A-laser trabeculoplasties, 34 A-laser iridotomies, 158 Yag-laser iridotomies, 31 gonioplasties, plus numberless combined treatments (iridotomy-trabeculoplasty, gonio-trabeculoplasty, gonioplasty-ciliary body photocoagulation, and so on).
  • (3) These pontics are supported with the numberless abutment teeth.
  • (4) One of the main problems of preparing health protection strategies is to assess the numberless risks for health.
  • (5) His own accomplishment resides not only in the safeguarding of numberless recipies from the world of folk medicine, but also in the facts that he under-pins these traditional methods of healing, and their basic principles, with a specific conception of nature, and that he marks out an exceptionally important place for traditional methods of healing in the canon of general knowledge.
  • (6) It's worth noting which belfry is closest to your villa, as these tend to be the highest points and in the labyrinth of unnamed, whitewashed, terracotta-roofed houses, it's easy to get lost - I finished up being ferried around by quasi-bilingual locals until a taxi driver recognised the name of my numberless villa (in my unnamed, whitewashed back street).
  • (7) Their marriage lasted through numberless political campaigns, Jack's loss of hearing, many public positions, the birth and upbringing of three daughters, the arrival of nine grandchildren, general elections, party conferences and endless private laughter.
  • (8) There are numberless ironies and small cruelties here.
  • (9) There are numberless more, equally impressive writers at work in China today; I trust publishers at the London book fair will boldly go and discover, as enthusiastically as I did, this complex and rich new literary world.

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