
Random (song)
WordNet
adjective
(1) Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance
"A random choice"
"Bombs fell at random"
"Random movements"
(2) Taken haphazardly
"A random choice"
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Etymology
From , from from }, see . Used in English since the 14th Century.
Noun
- Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I.10:
- And therwith two of them dressid their sperys, and Ulfyus and Brastias dressid theire speres, and ranne to gyder with grete raundon.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I.10:
- An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.
- The party was boring. It was full of randoms.
Adjective
- All outcomes being unpredictable and, in the ideal case, equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
- The flip of a fair coin is purely random.
- The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers.
- The results of the field survey look random by several different measures.
- Of or relating to probability distribution.
- A toss of loaded dice is still random, though biased.
- Pseudorandom in contrast to truly random; mimicking the result of random selection.
- The rand function generates a random number from a seed.
- Representative and undistinguished; typical and average.
- A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference.
- Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause or reason.
- That was a completely random comment.
- The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but random.
- The narrative takes a random course.
Compounds
- at random
- randomnitude
- randomology
- randomosity
- non-random
- pseudorandom
- random number