Ninth
['naɪnθ] or [naɪnθ]
Definition
(noun.) position nine in a countable series of things; 'going into the ninth they were a run ahead'.
(adj.) coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position .
Checker: Terrance--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.
(a.) Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.
(n.) An interval containing an octave and a second.
(n.) A chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.
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Examples
- One day, it was the ninth of September, seemed devoted to every disaster, to every harrowing incident. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- By the ninth and tenth centuries there are not only grammars, but great lexicons, and a mass of philological learning in Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Get me the Sixty-Ninth Brigade observation post. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- No matter if it were your twenty-ninth; we will anticipate no feelings by discussion and conversation; we will not talk about love. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- One of them describes the method pursued by him in the ninth century in taking measure of the c ircumference of the earth. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I opened my ninth book at a very special passage, and put the fan in as a marker, to keep the place. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is impossible here to trace the events of the ninth and tenth centuries in any detail, the alliances, the treacheries, the claims and acquisitions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And from this sum, neglecting likewise the fraction, and deducting a ninth, or 4s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- BURNSIDE, commanding Ninth Army Corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He stared at me in my old costume as though I had been the ninth wonder of the world. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Arabic paper manuscripts from the ninth century onward still exist. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Signed and sealed on the fourth day of the eighty-ninth moon of your majesty's auspicious reign. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- From China the knowledge of them spread to India, and in both these lands rockets were used as missiles of war as early as the ninth century. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Several hundred years later the days were divided into sections which were called hours, such as the sixth hour (noon), the ninth hour (three o’clock), the eleventh hour (five o’clock), etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For the ninth and tenth centuries saw a great development of pilgrimage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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