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Provided by the compucert supernumerary \soo-puhr-NOO-muh-rair-ee; -NYOO-\, adjective:
- Exceeding the stated, standard, or prescribed number.
- Exceeding what is necessary or desired; superfluous.
- A supernumerary person or thing.
- An actor without a speaking part, as a walk-on or an extra in a crowd scene.
Supernumerary is from Latin supernumerarius, from super, "over" + numerus, "number."
- When you regularly flirt with an acquaintance or friend but do no more.
- Rick and Julie flirt whenever they are together, but they've never gone out. They aren't in any sort of relationship, merely a flirtationship.
- Bob has only one girlfriend, but starts a flirtationship with almost every girl he meets.
Trivia
What inspired George O. Squier to call his prepackaged "elevator music" transmission system Muzak?
- The catchiness and success of the made-up name Kodak. Squier had originally called his company Wired Radio.
- Thomas Jackson acquired his nickname "Stonewall" (1861)
- 17th parallel: following defeat at Dien Bien Phu, France agreed to withdraw troops from communist North Vietnam (1954)
- WorldCom: filed for bankruptcy about a month after revealing deceptive accounting had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion; it was the largest bankruptcy in US history (2002)
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): Nobel Prize-winning, bullfight-loving author of The Old Man and the Sea; author Hart Crane (1899-1932) shared Hemingway's birthday and, like Hemingway, committed suicide
- Edward Herrmann (65): famous for his portrayal of FDR in Eleanor and Franklin and more recently as Richard Gilmore in Gilmore Girls; also, actors Robin Williams (56), Jon Lovitz (51), Lance Guest (48), Josh Harnett (30) and Jamie Waylett (19)
- Garry Trudeau (60): creator of Doonesbury and 1st comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
- Yusuf Islam (60): singer, songwriter, aka Cat Stevens
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