enumerated
named or listed one by one, as if in counting: I couldn’t remember any of the rapidly enumerated salad dressing options, and just told the waiter to surprise me.
counted systematically, as in a census, inventory, etc.: The enumerated population of Manitoba increased 5.2 percent over the past five years.
Computers. (of a data type) allowing only values selected from a limited set of named elements: Assign an importance level to each record by creating an enumerated type with values such as “low,” “medium,” and “high.”Months of the year are an enumerated data type.
Chiefly Canadian. (of a voter) entered by name in an official register of eligible voters for an election: In the last municipal election in Halifax, 58 percent of enumerated voters cast a ballot.
the simple past tense and past participle of enumerate.
Origin of enumerated
1Other words from enumerated
- non·e·nu·mer·at·ed, adjective
- un·e·nu·mer·at·ed, adjective
- well-e·nu·mer·at·ed, adjective
Words Nearby enumerated
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How to use enumerated in a sentence
Because all quacks operate using the exact same methods, which are enumerated with extreme detail in NUTS!
The Strange, True Tale of the Old-Timey Goat Testicle-Implanting 'Governor' | Penny Lane | September 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAll detailed mechanisms for “popular decision making, divided powers, and enumerated rights.”
There are also costs to such arrangements, which have been well-enumerated by the feminist movement over the years.
One Reason Women Stay Home: Because It's Easier on Everyone | Megan McArdle | March 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut as I wrote last week, you cannot use semantic games to do an end run around an enumerated constitutional right.
Should People Be Forced to Buy Liability Insurance for their Guns? | Megan McArdle | December 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTExcept for one thing: you can't do an end-run around an enumerated right with some sort of semantic game.
Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.The bodily positions being exhaustively enumerated need not be correlated together.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)One week would have given ample time for us to include the places I have enumerated.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyThis table, it will be perceived, is far from settling the precise relative value of the different enumerated articles.
Domestic Animals | Richard L. AllenBut the best writer of tragedy, among those enumerated in “The Pleiad,” was Dionysides.
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