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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("six" is a kind of...):
dice; die (a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers)
domino (a small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots)
spot (a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
Synonyms:
6; Captain Hicks; half a dozen; hexad; sestet; sextet; sextuplet; sise; six; sixer; VI
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("six" is a kind of...):
digit; figure (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units
Synonyms:
6; half-dozen; half dozen; six; vi
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
I am glad I ordered dinner an hour after the time Mr. Rochester mentioned; for it is past six now.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I can leave them at the Great House very well, for a month or six weeks.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It was about six inches long, and thicker than my thumb, with some indications of dried cartilage at one end of it.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"You and I will be twenty-six, Teddy, Beth twenty-four, and Amy twenty-two. What a venerable party!" said Jo.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
There are seven boats aboard, the captain’s dingey, and the six which the hunters will use.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A hundred and six and a quarter to a hundred and five and seven-eighths.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Approximately 75% of cases occur in children under six years of age.
(B Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
First, the ORC comprised of six proteins binds to replication origins in the chromosomal DNA.
(CDK Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The six residues involved in the binding are in positions 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12; these residues are denoted by X, Y, Z, -Y, -X and -Z.
(Calcium-Binding Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
Food had not passed his lips in thirty-six hours, but he did not think about it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
