Five
[faɪv]
Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
(adj.) being one more than four .
Checked by Basil--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Four and one added; one more than four.
(n.) The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V.
Editor: Trudy
Definition
adj. and n. four and one.—n. Five′-fing′er a name for various plants (cinque-foil oxlip &c.): a species of starfish.—adj. Five′fold five times folded or repeated in fives.—ns. Fiv′er (coll.) a five-pound note; Five′-square (B.) having five corners or angles.—Five Articles Five Points statements of the distinctive doctrines of the Arminians and Calvinists respectively—the former promulgated in 1610 the latter sustained by the Synod of Dort in 1619 (see Calvinism).—Bunch of fives the fist.
Editor: Will
Examples
- There is scarcely any man alive who does not think himself meritorious for giving his neighbour five pounds. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Let us enjoy five minutes of instructive conversation with her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He's thirty-five to one! Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Five daughters brought up at home without a governess! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In this a vacuum is maintained by a condenser, the vapors passing from the pan to the condenser through the great curved pipe rising from the top, which pipe is five feet in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- One day Edison appeared with some tin-foil and four or five yards of fine wire. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Where the market rate of interest is five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To be brief, their kind attention and my own excellent constitution triumphed over the fever, which had been very severe during five days. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Out loud I said, Tell the Count Greffi I will be in the billiard-room at five o'clock. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Just step there with me,' said Roker, taking up his hat with great alacrity; 'the matter's settled in five minutes. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Number Three, Four, Five, often. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Taking the horse power as the equivalent of the work of five men, the work of steam is equivalent to that of a population of 500,000,000 working men. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- An examination of his betting-book shows that bets to the amount of five thousand pounds had been registered by him against the favorite. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Three hundred fives. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- On ordinary working-days she braided it in threes; on ordinary Sundays in fours; at Maypolings, gipsyings, and the like, she braided it in fives. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Look what the funds were on the 1st of March--what the French fives were when I bought for the count. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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