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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

number cruncher

/nuhm-ber-kruhn-cher/US // ˈnʌm bərˌkrʌn tʃər //

数字计算者,数字计算员,数学家,数字计算

Related Words

accountant会计师,会计员,会计人员,会计actuary精算师,精算,公证人,公证员bookkeeper簿记员,记账员,记帐员,书记员calculator计算器,计算者,计算师,计算员statistician统计员,统计学家,统计师,统计人员

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounmathematical worker
Synonyms
cpa检察官,检察官办公室,检察官协会,检察官办公室主任accountant会计师,会计员,会计人员,会计actuary精算师,精算,公证人,公证员bean counter打小算盘,打工仔,打小算盘的人,打小报告的人bookkeeper簿记员,记账员,记帐员,书记员calculator计算器,计算者,计算师,计算员certified public account公认的账户,公认的帐户,公证人账户,公证员账户statistician统计员,统计学家,统计师,统计人员

Examples

  • “Our members continue to face a number of challenges,” she said.

  • The number of dissenters though is unprecedented in the modern era.

  • Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.

  • The number of diplomats was pitiful (45 appointees in 1860), as was the amount of money allocated to them.

  • Jett sees this number as a marker of how much the president allows professionals to do the job.

  • The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.

  • We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.

  • There are a number of bacilli, called acid-fast bacilli, which stain in the same way as the tubercle bacillus.

  • Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.

  • I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.

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