random

(countable, uncountable)A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.

(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.

Đồng nghĩa: force, momentum, speed, velocity

(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.

(colloquial, countable, figuratively, uncountable)An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.

The party was boring. It was full of randoms.

Đồng nghĩa: rando, nobody, nonentity

(countable, uncountable)(mining) The direction of a rake-vein.

(countable, historical, uncountable)(printing, historical) A frame for composing type.

Occurring for no particular reason; haphazard, unpredictable.

Our city is plagued by random acts of violence.

random acts of kindness

Đồng nghĩa: desultory

(statistics) Involving an outcome which is impossible to predict, but which may be represented by a probability distribution; in the ideal case, involving outcomes which are equally likely.

Near-synonyms: aleatory, stochastic

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.

A toss of a loaded die is still random, though biased.

July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.

Đồng nghĩa: aleatory, stochastic

(computing) Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.

The rand function generates a random number from a seed.

(informal)Selected for no particular reason; arbitrary; unspecified.

A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference.

You're just going to trust the word of random people on the Internet?

I didn't have time to peruse the resturant's menu, so I just ordered some random dish.

Whatever random hobby you're into, there's an Internet community for it.

(informal)Being (part of) a varied, unrelated, and apparently arbitrary collection of things; diverse, heterogeneous.

My notebook has turned into a random collection of thoughts.

I brought a bunch of random snacks, but nothing nutritious.

I mixed a bunch of random vegetables into a salad, and it actually turned out pretty good.

(informal)Apropos of nothing; lacking context, relevance, or any connection to the previous situation; unexpected.

This random guy just came up to me to say that he was a fan of my work.

Thank you for that completely random comment... now, let's get back to our actual topic of discussion.

The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but very random.

I feel like pineapple is a very random thing to put on a pizza.

(informal)Of a person: characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.

You're so random! I never know what you're going to do next.

(UK, slang)Being out of the ordinary; unusual or unexpected; odd, strange, bizarre.

That's a rather random fact!

I can't believe he would say that. That's so random!

(intransitive, uncommon)(intransitive, now uncommon) To wander; to stray; to meander.