six
A group or set with six elements.
Noun
- A group or set with six elements.
- The digit or figure 6.
- how about 100 then? for 100, I wanted to pay homage to the people who have been using seximal this entire time. specifically, I used the word for six sixes found in the Ndom language, "nif". - (Can we date this quote?),...
- A playing card featuring six pips.
- A person who is six years old.
- The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
- Six o'clock.
- In Austria the prisoners rise at five, [...]. There are morning prayers at a quarter to six, after which the prisoners are conducted to work. - 1838, Francis Bisset Hawkins, chapter XIII, in Germany: The Spirit of Her...
- Rear, behind (rear side of something).
- cover my six
- Just as having an enemy on your “six” is the hardest situation to escape, being on an enemy at six o'clock is the surest kill. Fighter pilots are always practicing maneuvers to get out from having another aircraft on...
- 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.
- His century featured 12 sixes.
- England required 15 from the last over of the regular match. Ben Stokes hit a six and benefited when a throw from the deep hit him and went for four overthrows. - 2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket...
- A touchdown.
- A bathroom or toilet.
- Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel.
Origin
PIE word *swéḱs From Middle English six, from Old English six, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx), Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ). Doublet of sice. Toilet sense predates military usage.
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6 陸 陆 六 Ⅵ VI στ΄ ϛ΄ Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
Derived
at sixes and sevens deep six hit someone for six long six pick six short six six feet under
Numeral
- A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This number of dots: (••••••).
- Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters. In Niger, at least six people are now feared dead, local media reported. - 2024...
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