little vs number

little

noun
  • A small amount. 

  • One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state. 

  • A child; particularly an infant. 

  • A newly initiated member of a sorority, who is mentored by a big. 

  • The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role. 

pron
  • Not much; not a large amount. 

adj
  • Operating on a small scale. 

  • Very young. 

  • Short in duration; brief. 

  • To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign. 

  • Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous. 

  • Younger. 

  • Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place. 

  • Having few members. 

  • Small in size. 

  • Insignificant, trivial. 

  • Used to belittle a person. 

adv
  • Not at all. 

  • Not much. 

det
  • Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of). 

number

noun
  • Quantity. 

  • A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items. 

  • Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection. 

  • An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one. 

  • An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc. 

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

  • 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. 

  • A person. 

  • A large amount of damage 

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

  • A telephone number. 

  • An abstract entity used to describe quantity. 

  • A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show. 

  • A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer. 

verb
  • To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items). 

  • To total or count; to amount to. 

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