ADJECTIVE | all | numerate | able to understand and use numbers |
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VERB | communication | numerate, count, number, enumerate | determine the number or amount of |
cognition | numerate | read out loud as words written numbers |
Meaning | able to understand and use numbers. | |
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Attribute of | numeracy | Skill with numbers and mathematics |
See also | educated | possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge) |
Opposite | innumerate | lacking knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts and methods |
Meaning | Determine the number or amount of. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
Synonyms | count, number, enumerate | |
Entailed by | tally, chalk up | Keep score, as in games / games / games |
Narrower | census | Conduct a census |
miscount | Count wrongly | |
recount | Count again | |
total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up | Determine the sum of | |
Broader | determine, find, find out, ascertain | Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment / experiment, survey, or study |
Spanish | contar, enumerar | |
Catalan | comptar | |
Adjectives | numerable | that can be counted |
Nouns | numeration | the act of counting |
Meaning | read out loud as words written numbers. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Broader | read | look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed |
Spanish | numerar | |
Nouns | numeration | naming numbers |
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