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random
- /ˈɹændəm/
Sounds like randem · Rhymes with -ændəm
Where it comes from
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.
noun randoms
- A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance. Still take advice ; though counsels, when they fly / At random, sometimes hit most happily.
- Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force. they were messagers vnto kyng Ban & Bors sent from kynge Arthur / therfor said the viij knyghtes ye shalle dye or be prysoners / for we ben knyghtes of kyng Claudas And therwith two of them dressid theire sperys / and Vlfyus and Brastias dressid theire speres and ranne to gyder with grete raundon
- The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range. Fortie yards will they shoot levell, or very neare the marke, and 120 is their best at Random.
- An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence. The party was boring. It was full of randoms.
- The direction of a rake-vein.
- A frame for composing type. Utilization of all floor space underneath case racks and randoms is another feature of the modern composing room; […]
Similar: vagrant
adjective more random · most random
- Occurring for no particular reason; haphazard, unpredictable. Our city is plagued by random acts of violence.
- Involving an outcome which is impossible to predict, but which may be represented by a probability distribution; in the ideal case, involving outcomes which are equally likely. Near-synonyms: aleatory, stochastic
- Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection. The rand function generates a random number from a seed.
- Selected for no particular reason; arbitrary; unspecified. A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference.
- Being (part of) a varied, unrelated, and apparently arbitrary collection of things; diverse, heterogeneous. My notebook has turned into a random collection of thoughts.
- Apropos of nothing; lacking context, relevance, or any connection to the previous situation; unexpected. This random guy just came up to me to say that he was a fan of my work.
- Of a person: characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs. You're so random! I never know what you're going to do next.
- Being out of the ordinary; unusual or unexpected; odd, strange, bizarre. That's a rather random fact!
verb randoms · randoming · randomed
- To wander; to stray; to meander.
