|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
random
adj 1: lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed
by or depending on chance; "a random choice"; "bombs fell
at random"; "random movements" [ant: nonrandom]
|
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Random \Ran"dom\, a.
1. Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or
without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded
without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard;
as, a random guess.
[1913 Webster]
Some random truths he can impart. --Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]
So sharp a spur to the lazy, and so strong a bridle
to the random. --H. Spencer.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Statistics) Of, pertaining to, or resulting from a
process of selection from a starting set of items, in
which the probability of selecting any one object in the
starting set is equal to the probability of selecting any
other.
[PJC]
3. (Construction) of unequal size or shape; made from
components of unequal size or shape.
[PJC]
at random in a manner so that all possible results have an
equal probability of occurrence; for processes, each
possible result is counted separately although the same
type of result may occur more than once .
Random courses (Masonry), courses of stone of unequal
thickness.
Random shot, a shot not directed or aimed toward any
particular object, or a shot with the muzzle of the gun
much elevated.
Random work (Masonry), stonework consisting of stones of
unequal sizes fitted together, but not in courses nor
always with flat beds.
[1913 Webster]
|
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Random \Ran"dom\ (r[a^]n"d[u^]m), n. [OE. randon, OF. randon
force, violence, rapidity, [`a] randon, de randon, violently,
suddenly, rapidly, prob. of German origin; cf. G. rand edge,
border, OHG. rant shield, edge of a shield, akin to E. rand,
n. See Rand, n.]
1. Force; violence. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
For courageously the two kings newly fought with
great random and force. --E. Hall.
[1913 Webster]
2. A roving motion; course without definite direction; want
of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly
used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled
point of direction; at hazard.
[1913 Webster]
Counsels, when they fly
At random, sometimes hit most happily. --Herrick.
[1913 Webster]
O, many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant! --Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]
3. Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the
random of a rifle ball. --Sir K. Digby.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Mining) The direction of a rake-vein. --Raymond.
[1913 Webster]
|
4. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
random
adj.
1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition); weird. ?The system's
been behaving pretty randomly.?
2. Assorted; undistinguished. ?Who was at the conference?? ?Just a bunch of
random business types.?
3. (pejorative) Frivolous; unproductive; undirected. ?He's just a random
loser.?
4. Incoherent or inelegant; poorly chosen; not well organized. ?The program
has a random set of misfeatures.? ?That's a random name for that function.?
?Well, all the names were chosen pretty randomly.?
5. In no particular order, though deterministic. ?The I/O channels are in a
pool, and when a file is opened one is chosen randomly.?
6. Arbitrary. ?It generates a random name for the scratch file.?
7. Gratuitously wrong, i.e., poorly done and for no good apparent reason.
For example, a program that handles file name defaulting in a particularly
useless way, or an assembler routine that could easily have been coded
using only three registers, but redundantly uses seven for values with
non-overlapping lifetimes, so that no one else can invoke it without first
saving four extra registers. What randomness!
8. n. A random hacker; used particularly of high-school students who soak
up computer time and generally get in the way.
9. n. Anyone who is not a hacker (or, sometimes, anyone not known to the
hacker speaking); the noun form of sense 2. ?I went to the talk, but the
audience was full of randoms asking bogus questions?.
10. n. (occasional MIT usage) One who lives at Random Hall. See also J.
Random, some random X.
11. [UK] Conversationally, a non sequitur or something similarly
out-of-the-blue. As in: ?Stop being so random!? This sense equates to
?hatstand?, taken from the Viz comic character ?Roger Irrelevant - He's
completely Hatstand.?
|
5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
random
1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition); weird.
"The system's been behaving pretty randomly."
2. Assorted; undistinguished. "Who was at the conference?"
"Just a bunch of random business types."
3. (pejorative) Frivolous; unproductive; undirected. "He's
just a random loser."
4. Incoherent or inelegant; poorly chosen; not well organised.
"The program has a random set of misfeatures." "That's a
random name for that function." "Well, all the names were
chosen pretty randomly."
5. In no particular order, though deterministic. "The I/O
channels are in a pool, and when a file is opened one is
chosen randomly."
6. Arbitrary. "It generates a random name for the scratch
file."
7. Gratuitously wrong, i.e. poorly done and for no good
apparent reason. For example, a program that handles file
name defaulting in a particularly useless way, or an assembler
routine that could easily have been coded using only three
registers, but redundantly uses seven for values with
non-overlapping lifetimes, so that no one else can invoke it
without first saving four extra registers. What randomness!
8. A random hacker; used particularly of high-school students
who soak up computer time and generally get in the way.
9. Anyone who is not a hacker (or, sometimes, anyone not
known to the hacker speaking). "I went to the talk, but the
audience was full of randoms asking bogus questions".
10. (occasional MIT usage) One who lives at Random Hall. See
also J. Random, some random X.
[Jargon File]
(1995-12-05)
|
|
|
Thesaurus Results for Random:
|
1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
accidental, adventitious, adventitiously, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, any which way, anyhow, anywise, arbitrarily, arbitrary, around, at random, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, by chance, capricious, casual, casually, causeless, chance, chance-medley, chancy, chaotic, confused, designless, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, driftless, dysteleological, erratic, erratically, fitful, foggy, formless, fortuitous, fortuitously, frivolous, fuzzy, general, gratuitous, haphazard, haphazardly, hazy, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, immethodical, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incidental, incidentally, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indefinitely, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indiscriminately, indistinct, inexact, inexplicable, irregular, irregularly, lax, loose, meaningless, mindless, misshapen, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, obscure, occasional, occasionally, odd, orderless, planless, potluck, promiscuous, purposeless, random shot, randomly, senseless, serendipitous, serendipitously, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, stray, sweeping, systemless, unaccountable, unarranged, uncalculated, unclassified, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unmotivated, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unplanned, unpremeditated, unpremeditatedly, unsorted, unspecific, unspecified, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, unsystematically, ununiform, vague, veiled, wandering |
|
|
|
|
|
Common Misspellings > |
Random aRandom aRndom RaRndom andom RRandom Rnadom Ranadom Rndom Raandom Radnom Randnom Radom Ranndom Ranodm Randodm Ranom Randdom Randmo Randomo Randm Randoom Randmom Rando Randomm 4andom r4andom 4random $andom r$andom $random 5andom r5andom 5random eandom reandom erandom tandom rtandom trandom dandom rdandom drandom fandom rfandom frandom gandom rgandom grandom Rqndom Raqndom Rqandom Rwndom Rawndom Rwandom Rsndom Rasndom Rsandom Rxndom Raxndom Rxandom Rzndom Razndom Rzandom R ndom Ra ndom R andom Rendom Rindom Rondom Rundom Ragdom Rangdom Ragndom Rahdom Ranhdom Rahndom Rajdom Ranjdom Rajndom Rabdom Ranbdom Rabndom Ramdom Ranmdom Ramndom Ra dom Ran dom Ra ndom Ranwom Randwom Ranwdom Raneom Randeom Ranedom Ranrom Randrom Ranrdom Ransom Randsom Ransdom Ranfom Randfom Ranfdom Ranxom Randxom Ranxdom Rancom Randcom Rancdom Ranvom Randvom Ranvdom Ran om Rand om Ran dom Rand9m Rando9m Rand9om Rand(m Rando(m Rand(om Rand0m Rando0m Rand0om Randim Randoim Randiom Randpm Randopm Randpom Randkm Randokm Randkom Randlm Randolm Randlom Randam Randem Randum Randoj Randomj Randojm Randok Randomk Randokm Randol Randoml Randolm Randon Randomn Randonm Rando Random Rando m Definition commonly spelled as: Defanition or Defenition, Synonym as: Synonim, Sinonym or Sinonim, Thesaurus as: Thesorus or Thesauris, Dictionary as: Dictionery or Dictionry and Define is usually not misspelled. What does mispell meen? It Meens...
Full Map Index: Å Norway-Am Timan Chad |
Ama United States of America-Audon France |
Audouville-la-Hubert France-Baskil Turkey |
Baskin United States of America-Bindoy Philippines |
Bindoy Philippines-Breuilpont France |
Breukelen Netherlands-Campofelice di Fitalia Italy |
Campofelice di Roccella Italy-Champigny France |
Champigny-en-Beauce France-Colle San Magno Italy |
Colle Sannita Italy-Damulog Philippines |
Damurhuda Bangladesh-Duliāgaon India |
Duliajan No.1 India-Ethridge United States of America |
Étienville France-Frignano Italy |
Frignicourt France-Gouhenans France |
Gouillons France-Hasselbach Germany |
Hasselbach Germany-Hurlock United States of America |
Huron United States of America-Jovellanos Cuba |
Jovellar Philippines-Kirchzell Germany |
Kircubbin United Kingdom-La Gomera Guatemala |
La Gonfrière France-Le Hohwald France |
Le Hommet-dArthenay France-Loma de Gato Philippines |
Loma de Juárez Mexico-Mālpur India |
Mālpura India-Memphis United States of America |
Memphis United States of America-Montería Colombia |
Monteriggioni Italy-Navalilla Spain |
Navalmanzano Spain-Noyelles-lès-Seclin France |
Noyelles-lès-Vermelles France-Pachelma Russia |
Pachgaon India-Piégut-Pluviers France |
Piekary Śląskie Poland-Prilep Macedonia |
Přílepy Czech Republic-Reuil-en-Brie France |
Reuilly France-Şag Romania |
Şag Romania-Saint-Puy France |
Saint-Python France-Santa Rita Panama |
Santa Rita Venezuela-Sewarhi India |
Sewen France-Sparbu Norway |
Spardorf Germany-Tamparan Philippines |
Tampayan Philippines-Tottington United Kingdom |
Tottleben Germany-Valdivia Chile |
Valdivia Colombia-Villeneuve-le-Roi France |
Villeneuve-lès-Avignon France-White City United States of America |
White City Canada-Żywiec Poland |
|
Most Popular Searches: Define Misanthrope, Define Pulchritudinous, Define Happy, Define Veracity, Define Cornucopia, Define Almuerzo, Define Atresic, Define URL, Definitions Of Words, Definition Of Get Up, Definition Of Quid Pro Quo, Definition Of Irreconcilable Differences, Definition Of Word, Synonyms of Repetitive, Synonym Dictionary, Synonym Antonyms. See our main index and map index for more details.
|
©2011-2024 ZebraWords.com - Define Yourself - The Search for Meanings and Meaning Means I Mean. All content subject to terms and conditions as set out here. Contact Us, peruse our Privacy Policy |
|