six
IPA: sˈɪks
noun
- A group or set with six elements.
- The digit or figure 6.
- Six o'clock.
- (military slang, by ellipsis of six o'clock) Rear, behind (rear side of something).
- (cricket, countable) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
- (American football) A touchdown.
- (North Wales) A bathroom or toilet.
- (obsolete) Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel.
- A surname.
- (UK) Abbreviation of MI6. (intelligence service) [The overseas intelligence agency of the United Kingdom, whose primary function is to spy on foreign governments and terror groups located abroad. Formally called the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).]
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Examples of "six" in Sentences
- Mr. Medvedev used the word six times in the space of two minutes.
- At the time she was reported to have owed the label six new albums and two greatest hits compilations.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- 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_. "
- 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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