Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 5 + 1.
- noun The sixth in a set or sequence.
- noun Something having six parts, units, or members, especially a motor vehicle having six cylinders.
- idiom (at sixes and sevens) In a state of confusion or disorder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- One more than five; being twice three: a cardinal numeral.
- noun The number greater by one than five; twice three. For the cabalistic significance of six, see
seven . - noun A symbol representing this number, as 6, or VI, or vi.
- noun In games: A playing-card bearing six spots or pips; a six-spot.
- noun On a die, the face which bears six spots; hence, a die which turns up that face.
- noun Beer sold at six shillings a barrel; hence, small beer.
- noun plural Bonds bearing interest at six per cent.
- noun plural In Eng. hymnology, a species of trochaic meter having six syllables to the line, and properly four lines to the stanza.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective One more than five; twice three.
- adjective (Ethnol.) a confederation of North American Indians formed by the union of the Tuscaroras and the Five Nations.
- adjective (Geom.) See Nine points circle, under
Nine . - noun The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects.
- noun A symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or VI.
- noun to be in a dispute or disagreement; -- often used with with.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cardinal A
numerical value equal to6 ; thenumber occurring afterfive and beforeseven . - noun The
digit orfigure 6 . - noun military slang
Rear ,behind (rear side of something). - noun cricket, countable An
event whereby abatsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6runs for the batting team. - noun American football A
touchdown .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
- noun a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips
- adjective denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units
Etymologies
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Examples
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On the market to-day there are five pump-guns, that fire six shots each, in about _six seconds_, without removal from the shoulder, by the quick sliding of a sleeve under the barrel, that ejects the empty shell and inserts a loaded one.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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Savonarola nearly three years before, whenever a citizen was condemned to death by the fatal six votes (called the _set fave_ or _six beans_, beans being in more senses than one the political pulse of Florence), he had the right of appealing from that sentence to the Great Council.
Romola George Eliot 1849
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All men are six feet high, is not true, because _six feet high_ is not a name of every thing (though it is of some things) of which _man_ is
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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All men are six feet high, is not true, because _six feet high_ is not a name of everything (though it is of some things) of which _man_ is a name.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839
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Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise."
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It has been found in practice, that a water-course thirty feet wide and six feet deep, giving a transverse sectional area of one hundred and eighty square feet, will discharge three hundred cubic yards of water per minute, and will flow at the rate of one mile per hour, with a fall of no more than _six inches per mile_. "
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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"Of this large sum, however," they say, "it can be clearly shown that there will be no need of any other advance by government than the interest which will accumulate while the work is in progress, which, by issuing the bonds every six months, as required, will not reach the sum of _six million dollars.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various
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At the time she was reported to have owed the label six new albums and two greatest hits compilations.
www.startribune.com 2012
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At the time she was reported to have owed the label six new albums and two greatest hits compilations.
The Seattle Times 2012
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Mr. Medvedev used the word six times in the space of two minutes.
Medvedev Puts Russia in a Choice Situation Geoffrey T. Smith 2011
yarb commented on the word six
Like all sixes she had enormous recuperative ability. It had been carefully built into each one of them.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
March 24, 2012