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As nouns the difference between numbers and alphabet

is that numbers is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals while alphabet is the set of letters used when writing in a language.

As verbs the difference between numbers and alphabet

is that numbers is third-person singular of number while alphabet is to designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

As a proper noun Numbers

is the Book of Numbers, the fourth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fourth book in the Torah.

numbers

English

(Book of Numbers)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The Book of Numbers, the fourth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fourth book in the Torah.
  • * 1599 — Shakespeare, Hen V i 2
  • For in the book of Numbers is it writ, when the man dies, let the inheritance descend unto the daughter.

    alphabet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The set of letters used when writing in a language.
  • The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
    In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet .
  • A writing system in which letters represent phonemes.
  • # A true alphabet, a writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and'' vowel phonemes.
  • (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
  • Let L be a regular language over the alphabet \Sigma .
  • (India) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
  • * 2002 , Eugene E. Dike, African myth of creation in African form of writing , Monsenstein und Vannerdat, ISBN 3936600406, page 30:
  • We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.
  • * 2005 , Satinder Bal Gupta, Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures , Laxmi Publications, page 237:
  • There are 26 alphabets in English.
  • The simplest rudiments; elements.
  • * Macaulay
  • The very alphabet of our law.

    Derived terms

    () * alphabetic, alphabetical * alphabetize * alphabet soup * alphanumeric, alphanumerical * Cyrillic alphabet * Greek alphabet * Latin alphabet * Phoenician alphabet * phonetic alphabet * Roman alphabet * Russian alphabet * Ukrainian alphabet

    Synonyms

    * , absey

    See also

    * abjad * abugida * script * syllabary * writing system *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.