random

US: /ˈɹændəm/

UK: /ɹˈændəm/


English - Vietnamese dictionary

random /'rændəm/
  • danh từ
    • at random càn, bậy bạ; ẩu, bừa bâi; to speak at random nói bậy bạ; to shoot at random bắn càn, bắn bừa bãi
    • tính từ
      • ẩu, bừa
        • a random remark: một lời nhận xét ẩu
        • a random shot: một phát bắn bừa

    Advanced English dictionary

    adjective, noun
    + adjective [usually before noun] done, chosen, etc. without sb thinking or deciding in advance what is going to happen: the random killing of innocent people + a random sample / selection (= in which each thing has an equal chance of being chosen) + The information is processed in a random order.
    randomly adverb: The winning numbers are randomly selected by computer.
    randomness noun [U]: It introduced an element of randomness to the situation.
    + noun
    Idioms: at random without thinking or deciding in advance what is going to happen: She opened the book at random (= not at any particular page) and started reading. + The terrorists fired into the crowd at random. + Names were chosen at random from a list.

    Thesaurus dictionary

    adj.
    1 haphazard, chance, fortuitous, serendipitous, aleatory, arbitrary, casual, stray, occasional, indefinite, indiscriminate, non-specific, unspecific, unspecified, unordered, unorganized, undirected, unpremeditated, unplanned, accidental, uncalculated, unsystematic, adventitious, incidental, hit-or-miss:
    He used a computer program to generate random numbers. A random selection of slips was drawn from the drum and Madelaine's name was on one of them
    2 at random. randomly, haphazardly, fortuitously, by chance, serendipitously, arbitrarily, casually, occasionally, (every) now and then, (every) once in a while, irregularly, indefinitely, erratically, indiscriminately, unsystematically, adventitiously, incidentally, unpremeditatedly:
    They picked names from a hat at random. They drove up and down the road, firing at random.

    Collocation

    VERBS

    be, seem

    ADV.

    completely, entirely, purely, quite, totally | almost | fairly | truly | apparently, seemingly
    a seemingly random sequence of numbers


    Concise dictionary

    'rændəm
    adj.
    +lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance
    +taken haphazardly

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