sixth

[Sixth]

Position six in a countable series of things

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First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.

Noun
the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it

Noun
a sixth part

Noun
position six in a countable series of things

Adjective S.
coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position


a.
First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.

a.
Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.

n.
The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.

n.
The next in order after the fifth.

n.
The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.


Sixth

Sixth , a. [From Six: cf. AS. sixta, siexta.] 1. First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth. 2. Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.

Sixth

Sixth , n. 1. The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole. 2. The next in order after the fifth. 3. (Mus.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.

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Usage Examples

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

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