ENUMERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enumerate mean? 

• ENUMERATE (verb)
  The verb ENUMERATE has 2 senses:

1. specify individually

2. determine the number or amount of

  Familiarity information: ENUMERATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENUMERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they enumerate    ... he / she / it enumerates   
Past simple: enumerated   
Past participle: enumerated   
-ing form: enumerating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Specify individually

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

enumerate; itemise; itemize; recite

Context example:

The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug

Hypernyms (to "enumerate" is one way to...):

identify; name (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enumerate"):

list; name (give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

enumeration (a numbered list)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Determine the number or amount of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

count; enumerate; number; numerate

Context example:

Count your change

Hypernyms (to "enumerate" is one way to...):

ascertain; determine; find; find out (establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enumerate"):

recount (count again)

miscount (count wrongly)

census (conduct a census)

add; add together; add up; sum; sum up; summate; tally; tot; tot up; total; tote up (determine the sum of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

enumeration (the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order)

enumerator (someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes)

 Context examples 

A data type comprised of a collection of values which can be enumerated using an iterator.

(Collection Data Type, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

An indication that none of the enumerated Pathology types are applicable.

(Pathology, Other, NCI Thesaurus)

A document, memo or brief that enumerates the differences between two versions of a study protocol document.

(Amendment Change Summary Version Document, NCI Thesaurus)

And the same may be said of Mrs. Jeffereys—Clara Partridge, that was—and of the two Milmans, now Mrs. Bird and Mrs. James Cooper; and of more than I can enumerate.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was an animating subject, and Mrs. Bennet seemed incapable of fatigue while enumerating the advantages of the match.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I shall enumerate them to you, for nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person, and I can hardly expect your co-operation if I do not show you the position from which we start.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whereupon I enumerated as many sorts as came into my head, with the various methods of dressing them, which could not be done without sending vessels by sea to every part of the world, as well for liquors to drink as for sauces and innumerable other conveniences.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Their party in the dining-room was large, for almost all the Lucases came to meet Maria and hear the news; and various were the subjects that occupied them: Lady Lucas was inquiring of Maria, after the welfare and poultry of her eldest daughter; Mrs. Bennet was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and, on the other, retailing them all to the younger Lucases; and Lydia, in a voice rather louder than any other person's, was enumerating the various pleasures of the morning to anybody who would hear her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She knew not the exact degree of his affection for his aunt, or his dependence on her judgment, but it was natural to suppose that he thought much higher of her ladyship than she could do; and it was certain that, in enumerating the miseries of a marriage with one, whose immediate connections were so unequal to his own, his aunt would address him on his weakest side.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Lydia talked incessantly of lottery tickets, of the fish she had lost and the fish she had won; and Mr. Collins in describing the civility of Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, protesting that he did not in the least regard his losses at whist, enumerating all the dishes at supper, and repeatedly fearing that he crowded his cousins, had more to say than he could well manage before the carriage stopped at Longbourn House.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)