Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun numbering

1 sense of numbering

Sense 1
enumeration, numbering -- (a numbered list)
       => list, listing -- (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb number

6 senses of number

Sense 1
total, number, add up, come, amount -- (add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000")
       => be -- (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer")

Sense 2
number -- (give numbers to; "You should number the pages of the thesis")
       => designate, denominate -- (assign a name or title to)

Sense 3
number, list -- (enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians")
       => name, identify -- (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property; "Many senators were named in connection with the scandal"; "The almanac identifies the auspicious months")

Sense 4
count, number -- (put into a group; "The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members")
       => classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate -- (arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?")

Sense 5
count, number, enumerate, numerate -- (determine the number or amount of; "Can you count the books on your shelf?"; "Count your change")
       => determine, find, find out, ascertain -- (establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize")

Sense 6
number, keep down -- (place a limit on the number of)
       => limit, circumscribe, confine -- (restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day")