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SIXTEEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("sixteen" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being one more than fifteen
Synonyms:
16; sixteen; xvi
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
ERBB2 interacting protein; acts as an adaptor for the receptor ERBB2/HER2, which may assist in their localization and signalling function; has a PDZ domain and sixteen leucine-rich repeats (LRRs)
(ERBB2 Interacting Protein, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)
Sixteen countries, including areas of conflict such as Syria and Yemen, witnessed a decrease, and 39 countries, including the U.S., stayed the same.
(Study: Earth’s Night Skies Getting Brighter, VOA)
You are sixteen now, quite old enough to be my confidant, and my experience will be useful to you by-and-by, perhaps, in your own affairs of this sort.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Three girls, the two eldest sixteen and fourteen, was an awful legacy for a mother to bequeath, an awful charge rather, to confide to the authority and guidance of a conceited, silly father.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
On each side of the entrance was a sitting room, about sixteen feet square; and beyond them were the offices and the stairs.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Through all her sixteen landward gates there had set for many years a double tide of empty-handed soldiers hurrying Francewards, and of enriched and laden bands who brought their spoils home.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The definition of N3b TNM finding depends on the specific type of cancer that it refers to; for example, for breast cancer it refers to metastases in clinically detected ipsilateral internal mammary lymph nodes in the presence of one or more positive axillary lymph nodes, or in more than 3 axillary lymph nodes and in internal mammary lymph nodes with micrometastases or macrometastases detected by sentinel lymph node biopsy but not clinically detected; for gastric cancer it refers to metastases in sixteen or more regional lymph nodes; for nasopharyngeal cancer it refers to extension to the supraclavicular fossa.
(N3b Stage Finding, NCI Thesaurus)
The young people were all at home, and sustained their share in the introduction very well, with much good humour, and no embarrassment, at least on the part of the sons, who, at seventeen and sixteen, and tall of their age, had all the grandeur of men in the eyes of their little cousin.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Every sixteen hours.
(Every Sixteen Hours, NCI Thesaurus)
Just turned sixteen, sir.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
