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
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
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
The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.
John Walters
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Walter Scott
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
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
Donald Rumsfeld
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
Doug Coupland
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
Brian Eno
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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