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11random — I adjective accidental, aimless, blind, casual, chance, cursory, designless, desultory, done without reason, fortuitous, haphazard, immethodical, incidental, indiscriminate, irregular, orderless, promiscuous, purposeless, stray, unaimed,… …
12random — [adj] haphazard, chance accidental, adventitious, aimless, arbitrary, casual, contingent, designless, desultory, driftless, fluky, fortuitous, hit or miss*, incidental, indiscriminate, irregular, objectless, odd, promiscuous, purposeless,… …
13random — ► ADJECTIVE 1) made, done, or happening without method or conscious decision. 2) Statistics governed by or involving equal chances for each item. DERIVATIVES randomize (also randomise) verb randomly adverb randomness noun. ORIGIN orig …
14random — 01. Student pairs are chosen at [random] for the speaking test at the end of each session of the English Language Program. 02. Olympic athletes are subject to [random] drug testing. 03. Several people put their names forward to work on the… …
15random — [[t]ræ̱ndəm[/t]] 1) ADJ: usu ADJ n A random sample or method is one in which all the people or things involved have an equal chance of being chosen. The survey used a random sample of two thousand people across England and Wales... The… …
16random — randomly, adv. randomness, n. /ran deuhm/, adj. 1. proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers. 2. Statistics. of or characterizing a process of selection in which each item of a set… …
17random — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, succession, surge, from Anglo French randun, from Old French randir to run, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German rinnan to run more at run Date: 1561 a haphazard course II. adjective Date: 1632 1. a.… …
18random — ran|dom [ˈrændəm] adj [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: randon great speed or force , from randir to run ] 1.) happening or chosen without any definite plan, aim, or pattern ▪ The company has introduced random drug testing of its employees …
19random — adjective 1 happening or chosen without any definite plan, aim, or pattern: a random sample | random drug testing of athletes | A few random shots were fired. 2 at random in a random way: The killer appears to have selected his victims at random …
20random — ran•dom [[t]ˈræn dəm[/t]] adj. 1) occurring or done without definite aim, reason, or pattern: random examples[/ex] 2) sta Statistics. of or characterizing a process of selection in which each item of a set has an equal probability of being chosen …
