Fifth
[fɪfθ]
Definition
(noun.) the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it.
(noun.) a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon.
(noun.) position five in a countable series of things; 'he was fifth out of several hundred runners'.
(adj.) coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position .
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Definition
(a.) Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.
(a.) Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.
(n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
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Definition
adj. next after the fourth.—n. one of five equal parts: (mus.) a tone five diatonic degrees above or below any given tone.—adv. Fifth′ly in the fifth place.—ns. Fifth′-mon′archism; Fifth′-mon′archist.—Fifth-monarchy men an extreme sect of the time of the Puritan revolution who looked for the establishment of a new reign of Christ on earth in succession to Daniel's four great monarchies of Antichrist.
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Examples
- This leads us to consider the fifth source of authority, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I don't think Fifth-of-Novembers ought to be kept up by night except in towns. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She reached Fifth Avenue and began to walk slowly northward. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The fifth corps reached the North Anna on the afternoon of the 23d, closely followed by the sixth corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Yes, Caroline; you hear the wire of the bell vibrate; it rings again for the fifth time this afternoon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The fifth was Sir Edwin Turneham. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In this case, though there was no tythe, the rent of the landlord could amount to no more than one-fifth or two-tenths of the whole produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the fifth century the great civilization of Rome fell under the ruthless attack of the northern barbarian. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Not that the family would admit that: they think Fifth Avenue is Heaven with the rue de la Paix thrown in. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Captain Gomez of the Sixty-Fifth Brigade, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This reference is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Book of Exodus, wherein the Lord commanded Moses to make golden spoons for the Tabernacle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the silver mines of Peru are not now able to pay even this low rent; and the tax upon silver was, in 1736, reduced from one fifth to one tenth. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- On the morning of the fifth day I went upstairs to see if the Professor was ready to go out. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I was up at 65 Fifth Avenue one afternoon. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On the night of the 7th, the march was commenced towards Spottsylvania Court House, the fifth corps moving on the most direct road. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Two-fifths part of dextrine (or the same quantity of gelatine) may be substituted for the 2 parts of starch. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The wet meter is composed of an outer box about three-fifths filled with water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The atmosphere, which we ordinarily think of as a storehouse of oxygen, contains far more nitrogen than oxygen, since four fifths of its whole weight is made up of this element. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- That is to say, the air which we breathe and in which we move is four-fifths nitrogen, yet in the richest soil there is seldom more than one-tenth or two-tenths of one per cent of nitrogen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The African mines now produce four-fifths of the diamond supply. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the United States, approximately two fifths of the land area is so dry as to be worthless for agricultural purposes unless artificially watered. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Almost four fifths of the air around us is made up of nitrogen. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For the other four-fifths she turned to atmospheric nitrogen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He knew that in Newcomen’s engine four-fifths of all the steam used was lost in heating the cold cylinder, and that only one-fifth was actually used in moving the piston. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This is a glass jar coated both inside and outside with tinfoil for about four-fifths of its height. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The canal makes San Francisco nearer to Liverpool by 5,666 miles, a saving of two-fifths of the old journey by Magellan. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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