enumerate Definition
enu·mer·ate (ē no̵̅o̅′mər āt′, -nyo̵̅o̅′-; -i-)
transitive verb -·at′ed, -·at′·ing
- to determine the number of; count
- to name one by one; specify, as in a list
Etymology: < L enumeratus, pp. of enumerare < e-, out + numerare, to count < numerus, number
enumerate Related Forms
enu′·mer·able (-mər ə bəl) adjective
enu′·mer·a′tion noun
enu′·mer·a′tive adjective
enu′·mer·a′tor noun
enumerate Synonyms
enumerate Usage Examples
Object
- list: In effect, a boolean is an enumerated list with only two values.
- type: Users must use these enumerated types in their calling programs.
- value: This is exactly where I was coming from: creating a datatype with no legal values by enumerating only illegal values.
- person: Someone other than the person enumerated may have provided the information, or the informant may have been uncertain, uninterested, or deceitful.
- act: Article 7 Genocide and the other acts enumerated in Article 3 shall not be considered as political crimes for the purpose of extradition.
- principle: It embraces each of the ten principles enumerated above.
Used with why or when
what: The second part of Article 10 enumerates what may seem a daunting list of exceptions.
Noun phrase with adjective complement
such: This is a way of systematically enumerating feasible solutions such that the optimal integer solution is found.
Modifying Another Word
- below: I am therefore indebted to the authors of the material which I have used - these are enumerated below.
- above: The objections to grit blasting have been enumerated above.
- here: In this paper, we define South Asia in the more conventional manner, using the shorter list enumerated here.
- just: The 1881 census of the Isle of Skye, off Scotland's North West coast, enumerated just over 17,500 residents.
- also: Roberts also enumerates the varied fortunes of Sassoon's personal relationships with his friends.
- not: Areas in which problems may arise include: § The person was not enumerated or their schedule was lost.
Preposition: in
- section: Of the four factors enumerated in section 107, two focus on monetary issues.
- census: First, all members of all households were enumerated in a census ( approx 7,500 households ).
- minute: These are items which should be enumerated in the annual minutes of the Board of Directors.
- list: These rings share a lot of properties which can be enumerated in a list of axioms: They are both factorization rings.
- paragraph: The final version of the paper will address our working solutions to the problems enumerated in the foregoing paragraph.
- household: The cohorts described all have, at some point, been enumerated in a lone occupant household.
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