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ELEVEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A team that plays football
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("eleven" is a kind of...):
squad; team (a cooperative unit (especially in sports))
Meronyms (members of "eleven"):
linemen (the football players who line up on the line of scrimmage)
secondary (the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen)
backfield (the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen)
end; tackle; guard ((American football) a position on the line of scrimmage)
center ((American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play)
wingback ((American football) the position of the offensive back who lines up behind or outside the end)
tailback ((American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage)
halfback ((American football) an offensive back usually positioned behind the quarterback and to the side of the fullback)
fullback ((American football) an offensive position in the backfield)
field general; quarterback; signal caller ((American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team)
line backer; linebacker ((American football) the position of a defensive football player who plays close behind the line of scrimmage)
Holonyms ("eleven" is a member of...):
football league (a league of football teams)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("eleven" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being one more than ten
Synonyms:
11; eleven; xi
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
A maid servant living alone in a house not far from the river, had gone upstairs to bed about eleven.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A human life stage that begins at six years of age and continues until eleven complete years of age.
(Middle Childhood, NICHD)
We passed a few sad hours until eleven o’clock, when the trial was to commence.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“There are seven of the Winchester men, eleven seamen, your squire, young Master Terlake, and nine archers.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One claimed to be ten-stone champion, another was ready to take on anything at eleven, but would not run to twelve, which would have brought the invincible Jem Belcher down upon him.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The morning of the interesting day arrived, and Mrs. Weston's faithful pupil did not forget either at ten, or eleven, or twelve o'clock, that she was to think of her at four.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
By the end of eleven years, however, Mrs. Price could no longer afford to cherish pride or resentment, or to lose one connexion that might possibly assist her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It is past eleven o'clock: I heard it strike some minutes since.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
There are a total of eleven levels ranging from 0-100 where 0 indicates that the patient is dead and 100 indicates that the patient is normal.
(Karnofsky Performance Status Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
"Don't eat much supper, and come away at eleven when I send Hannah for you."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
