randomly
random
noun[ C ]
 informaluk /ˈræn.dəm/ us /ˈræn.dəm/
an unknown or unexpected person: 任意的某个人
You can't make a whole movie with randoms off the street.你不能在街上随便找些人拍完一整部电影。
I'm not going to give my phone number to some random who asks for it.
She doesn't want to go on holiday with a load of randoms she doesn't know.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not expected or planned
abrupt end
abrupt halt
abruptly
abruptness
ad hoc
inadvertence
inadvertency
inadvertent
inadvertently
inconceivable
sine die
spirit
spontaneity
spontaneous
spontaneously
unsuspected
untimely
untoward
unwilled
unwitting

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random | American Dictionary

random
adjective
us/ˈræn·dəm/
happening, done, or chosen by chance rather than according to a plan or pattern:
a random sample
He was stopped at the border in a random check.
 at random
At random means by chance, or without any organization or plan:
Dylan picked several books at random.

randomly

adverbus/ˈræn·dəm·li/
The people I interviewed were chosen randomly.

randomness

noun[ U ]us/ˈræn·dəm·nəs/

random | Business English

random
adjective
uk /ˈrændəm/us
happening, done, or chosen by chance rather than following a system, plan, or rule:
random audits/checks/testsThey discussed the idea of carrying out random forensic audits on listed companies as a deterrent to fraud.
The questionnaires are assigned on a random basis.
 at random
without involving any system or decision:
chosen/drawn/selected at randomThe winner will be the first complete entry drawn at random after the closing date.

Examples of random

random
The empirical evidence shows that for some countries we can reject the hypothesis that exchange rates are random walks.
The distribution of the random values is not very important, perceptually.
The results were indistinguishable from the random group.
A secondary problem is that mapping excludes random variables, which by definition are not interface parameters.
Then, the notes pass through a speedlim object, which receives a random timing between 100 to 400 ms at every note input.
The starting point for each part is either a random or a previously stored sound.
The signs in front of the random variables represent the agents' movements in and out of each group.
More important than the first-order approximation are the random fluctuations around the deterministic trajectory of the delay equation.
The stability result (i) says that the evolution of the capital intensity is uniquely determined by the random fixed point.
The same sequence of r random numbers has been applied to all computations.
Now that we can differentiate systematic non-proportionality from the effects of random error and lumpiness, let us look again at the issue of proportional allocations.
A second relevant concern here is whether we can treat the 901 respondents in our sample as a random subset of all survey participants.
The model assumes constant tectonic subsidence and a random variation in sea level.
Such correlated random walk models have been studied and applied to biological modeling [9, 10, 12].
The annular inpainting domain is initially inpainted with a random guess for the iterative strategy (2.12) or (2.13).
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