Essay and Number

Essay

Essay noun - A short piece of writing typically expressing a point of view.

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Number and essay are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Number" instead a noun "Essay".

Nearby Words: essayed, essayist, essaying

Number noun - A character used to represent a mathematical value.

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Essay and number are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Essay" instead a noun "Number".

Nearby Words: numberless, numbered, numbering

good	good essay	good number
disturbing	disturbing essay	disturbing number
actual	actual essay	actual number
massive	massive essay	massive number
Other adjectives: great, required, final, last, different.

The catalogue is preceded by an essay, which in the first edition takes up a greater number of pages than the 488 items themselves (much like those prefacing several of George Bernard Shaw's plays).

Source: Literature / The American Credo
Producer Chuck Lorre even discusses this trope, and the difficulty in getting the phone number on air, in his essay-like Vanity Plate at the end of the episode.

Source: 555
In a number of similar examples, the essay laments human consciousness (a consequence of the Fall of Man) as imperfect - as opposed to the perfect consciousness of God and the nonexistent consciousness of animals.

Source: Too Dumb to Fool

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