random English
Noun
( en noun)
A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
* (1591-1674)
*:Counsels, when they fly / At random , sometimes hit most happily.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:O, many a shaft, at random sent, / Finds mark the archer little meant!
(label) Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.
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*:they were messagers vnto kyng Ban & Bors sent from kynge Arthur / therfor said the viij knyghtes ye shalle dye or be prysoners / for we ben knyghtes of kyng Claudas And therwith two of them dressid theire sperys / and Vlfyus and Brastias dressid theire speres and ranne to gyder with grete raundon
*(Edward Hall) (1497-1547)
*:For courageously the two kings newly fought with great random and force.
*1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, page 144:
*:Fortie yards will they shoot levell, or very neare the marke, and 120 is their best at Random .
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(label) The direction of a rake-vein.
:(Raymond)
Synonyms
* force, momentum, speed, velocity
* (unimportant person) nobody, nonentity
Adjective
( en adjective)
Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
- The flip of a fair coin is purely random .
- The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers.
- The results of the field survey look random by several different measures.
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random , irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
(mathematics) Of or relating to probability distribution.
- A toss of loaded dice is still random , though biased.
(computing) Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
- The rand function generates a random number from a seed.
(somewhat colloquial) Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.
- A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference.
(somewhat colloquial) Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause or reason.
- That was a completely random comment.
- The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but random .
- The narrative takes a random course.
(colloquial) Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
- You're so random !
Synonyms
* (having unpredictable outcomes)
* (of or relating to probability distribution) stochastic
* (pseudorandom) pseudorandom
* (representative and undistinguished) average, typical
* (lacking context) arbitrary, unexpected, unplanned
Derived terms
* at random
* non-random
* pseudorandom
* randomer
* randomise, randomize
* randomness
* random number
* randomly
* randomology
* randomosity
See also
* (Randomness)
Anagrams
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page Etymology 1
Via (etyl) from (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
- Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
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One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
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(label) The type set up for printing a page.
(label) A web page.
(label) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
Synonyms
* (side of a leaf) side
* account, record
Derived terms
(Terms derived from "page")
* on the same page
* page in, page out
* page-turner
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Verb
( pag)
To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
To turn several pages of a publication.
- The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
To furnish with folios.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), possibly via (etyl) (m), from , in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
(British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
(US) A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
(in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
A boy child.
* 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
- A doghter hadde they bitwixe]] hem two / Of twenty yeer, with-outen any mo, / Savinge a child that was of half-yeer age; / In [[cradle, cradel it lay and was a propre page .
A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania .
Synonyms
* (serving boy) page boy
* (boy child) boy
Verb
( pag)
To attend (someone) as a page.
- (Shakespeare)
To call or summon (someone).
To contact (someone) by means of a pager.
- I’ll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.
- An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?
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