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NINETY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("ninety" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being ten more than eighty
Synonyms:
90; ninety; xc
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
They puzzled a worthy Sussex doctor some ninety years ago; but who in the world could have hoped—hoped—to have seen a sight like that?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For myself, my term of service in India had trained me to stand heat better than cold, and a thermometer at ninety was no hardship.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From his mother he had inherited the heavier proportions of the dog, so that he weighed, without any fat and without an ounce of superfluous flesh, over ninety pounds.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It grows by one millimetre every ninety seconds, making it one of the fastest growing plant materials.
(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)
When I take a gentleman to my house, no matter whether he is nineteen, twenty-nine, or ninety, I take him there in a spirit of confidence.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I’d give something for a photograph of your gaping, staring face when you pulled aside that lid expecting to see the Lady Frances Carfax and only found a poor old woman of ninety.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was about ninety leagues distant, and our voyage lasted four days and a half.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The chief qualification of ninety- nine per cent of all editors is failure.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
When the retiform elements comprise ninety percent or more of the tumor, the term retiform Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor is used.
(Ovarian Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor with Retiform Elements, NCI Thesaurus)
I had ninety pounds a year (exclusive of my house-rent and sundry collateral matters) from my aunt.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
