Sixty
['sɪkstɪ] or ['sɪksti]
Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six.
(adj.) being ten more than fifty .
Inputed by Dan--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
(n.) The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.
Inputed by Cecile
Definition
adj. and n. six times ten.—adj. and n. Six′tieth the sixth tenth: the ordinal of sixty.
Typed by Eugenia
Examples
- By this act I was appointed one of the commissioners for disposing of the money, sixty thousand pounds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I knew it was three hundred and sixty-four feet wide, and consequently wider than the capitol. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He carried his sixty years as if they had been fewer than forty. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We are going to send our butler to the sale to-morrow, to pick up some of that sixty-four. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The doctor set down sixty-four, and thenceforth the echo moved too fast for him, also. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The heating furnace and oil tank are served by a sixty-ton traveling crane and forty-ton jib crane. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There are sixty-three pages, and some patient monk has spent months, aye, perhaps years, in making it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The shields used weighed approximately sixty-seven tons each. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Caleb blushed, and after a little pause said-- Oh, I didn't tell you, Susan: I put my name to a bill for Fred; it was for a hundred and sixty pounds. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The full-grown tree is quite large, ranging sixty feet and over in height and about eight feet around the trunk. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Captain Gomez of the Sixty-Fifth Brigade, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Get me the Sixty-Ninth Brigade observation post. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- At one point the grade dropped some sixty feet in a distance of three hundred, and the curves were of recklessly short radius. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A great naval battle at Actium (31 B.C.) was decided by the unexpected desertion of Cleopatra with sixty ships in the midst of the fight. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The California Fruit Growers’ Exchange ships on an average of sixty-five per cent of the California production of citrus fruits. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Marcus