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FIFTY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A United States bill worth 50 dollars

Synonyms:

fifty; fifty dollar bill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("fifty" is a kind of...):

bank bill; bank note; banker's bill; banknote; bill; Federal Reserve note; government note; greenback; note (a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the product of ten and five

Synonyms:

50; fifty; L

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("fifty" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

Derivation:

fifty (being ten more than forty)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being ten more than forty

Synonyms:

50; fifty; l

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

Derivation:

fifty (the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five)

Credits

 Context examples: 

We were ushered into a dim-lit drawing-room, where an instant later we were joined by a very tall, handsome, light-bearded man of fifty, the younger brother of the dead scientist.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Haulbowline Head and Mizzen-mast Hill were at my elbow, the hill bare and dark, the head bound with cliffs forty or fifty feet high and fringed with great masses of fallen rock.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Fifty to 90% reduction of primary tumor; 50% or greater reduction in measurable sites of metastases; 0-1 bone marrow samples with tumor; number of positive bone sites decreased by greater than 50%.

(Partial Response in Neuroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

We went forth in little ships and came back in great galleys—for of fifty tall ships of Spain, over two score flew the Cross of St. George ere the sun had set.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You wouldn’t think the mares had come fifty miles, would you?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Approximately thirty to fifty percent of the tumors are bilateral.

(Ovarian Serous Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

One out of fifty hematologically normal individuals exhibit a CSFR1 variant allele (Y969C) that may cause a predisposition to myeloid malignancy.

(Oncogene CSF1R, NCI Thesaurus)

I had fifty hands onboard; and my orders were, that I should trade with the Indians in the South-Sea, and make what discoveries I could.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Here are fifty talers for you.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Fifty percent or greater stenosis within an existing stent.

(In Stent Restenosis, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)