number-v; 4 Senses

Sense Number 1: be a certain number or quantity

Commentary: Includes: DAYS ARE NUMBERED

Examples:
The troops number 2,000.
The Board believes that employee Directors should number not more than 2.
Items listed as being in short supply numbered only about a dozen.
His days are numbered.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: Adding_up
PropBank: number.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 6

Sense Number 2: be part of a group or total

Examples:
Dr. Nelson numbers among the world's foremost geotechnical engineering experts.
He numbered amongst his pet hates bureaucracy, official approval and government inspectors.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3, 4

Sense Number 3: give numbers to

Examples:
You should number the first page of the Project Description as number 1.
Publishers should number their backlist titles and publish the ISMNs in their catalogs.
Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., isolated a new vitamin that he numbered B17.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 4: count

Examples:
Jehovah was not angry with David because he numbered the children of Israel,
but because he numbered them so inaccurately.
Here it was that Xerxes numbered his forces. This is the way he did it.

Mappings:
VerbNet: clasify-29.10
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5