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Random

Force; violence.

A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.

Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball.

The direction of a rake-vein.

Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.

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Random Quotations

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Chuck Palahniuk

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
Donald Rumsfeld

The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.
Francis Crick

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
Brian Eno

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
Thomas More

That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.
Jello Biafra

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
Karl Jaspers

Random Translations

random in Dutch is toevallig, incidenteel
random in French is au hasard
random in German is wahlfrei, Zufalls..
random in Spanish is escogido al azar
random in Swedish is slumpvis

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