Meaning

6 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.

  2. (colloquial, countable, figuratively, uncountable)An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.

    The party was boring. It was full of randoms.

    Rando

  3. (countable, uncountable)The direction of a rake-vein.

  4. (countable, historical, uncountable)A frame for composing type.

  5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.

  6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.

Examples

165 sentences

  1. The people for the experiment were chosen at random.

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  2. We picked the number at random.

    ruМы выбрали число наугад. — marafon

    deWir haben die Zahl zufällig ausgewählt. — Esperantostern

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  3. It's not really random.

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  4. It isn't really random.

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  5. They were chosen at random.

    ruОни были выбраны наугад. — marafon

    deDie sind nach dem Zufallsprinzip ausgewählt worden. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
unimportant person:

Origin

From earlier randon, from Middle English randoun, raundon, from Old French randon, from ra

From earlier randon, from Middle English randoun, raundon, from Old French randon, from randir (“to run, gallop”) (whence French randonnée (“long walk, hike”)), from Frankish *randiju (“a run, race”) or Old Norse rend (“a run, race”), both from Proto-Germanic *randijō, from *rinnaną (“run”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)r̥-nw- (“to flow, move, run”). Cognate with Middle Low German uprinden (“to jump up”), Danish rende (“to run”). See run.

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Forms

plural: randoms
Singularrandom
Pluralrandoms

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
forceA2speedA2nobodyA2momentumvelocityrandononentityvagrant

Word family

5 related words
Derivedat randomrandomlessrandomlikerandomwiserandy

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
rancherrancidrandrandomizerandomlyrandomnessrandy
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