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NUMERATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Able to understand and use numbers
Classified under:
Also:
educated (possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge))
Attribute:
numeracy (skill with numbers and mathematics)
Antonym:
innumerate (lacking knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts and methods)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they numerate ... he / she / it numerates
Past simple: numerated
Past participle: numerated
-ing form: numerating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Read out loud as words written numbers
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "numerate" is one way to...):
read (look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
numeration (naming numbers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Determine the number or amount of
Example:
Count your change
Synonyms:
count; enumerate; number; numerate
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "numerate" is one way to...):
ascertain; determine; find; find out (establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "numerate"):
recount (count again)
miscount (count wrongly)
census (conduct a census)
add; add together; add up; sum; sum up; summate; tally; tot; tot up; total; tote up (determine the sum of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
numerable (that can be counted)
numeration (the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order)
