Sixteen
[sɪks'tiːn;'sɪkstiːn] or [,sɪks'tin]
Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one.
(adj.) being one more than fifteen .
Editor: Tod--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.
(n.) The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.
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Examples
- Sixteen shillings sterling, we are told by Mr Byron, was the price of a good horse in the capital of Chili. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I was sixteen. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Graham was at that time a handsome, faithless-looking youth of sixteen. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And indeed they did; they were quite beyond my uncle's management, and kept the old gentleman in a panic for sixteen hours out of the twenty-four. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Because he is a boy and you are a girl; he is sixteen and you are only six; his nature is strong and gay, and yours is otherwise. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Sixteen shillings, therefore, was the price of two quarters and more than three bushels of wheat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Palissy had shown the inborn courage of his nature during those sixteen lean years in Saintes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- If the incandescent light is four times as far away from the screen as the candle, and the shadows are equal, we know, by Section 100, that its strength is sixteen candle power. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A powerful steam traction engine of fifty horse power hauls across the field a planting combination of sixteen ten-inch plows, four six-foot harrows and a seeding drill in the rear. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The engine was placed behind the carriage, which was capable of containing sixteen persons, besides the engineer and guide. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- For sixteen years Palissy experimented. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The new operating room contained sixteen vertical engines with a capacity each of over 5,000 horse-power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One of these, known as Blenkinsop’s Leeds engine, ran on a tramway, and would draw sixteen wagons with a weight of seventy tons at the rate of about three miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Then they are beautiful, at sixteen, seventeen, eighteen--after that, they are no use to me. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There are sixty beds in a ward; and the bolt's on, sixteen hours out of the four-and-twenty. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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