Thirteen
[θɜː'tiːn;'θɜːtiːn] or ['θɝ'tin]
Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one.
(adj.) being one more than twelve .
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Definition
(a.) One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.
(n.) The number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or xiii.
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Definition
adj. and n. three and ten.—adj. and n. Thir′teenth the last of thirteen: a thirteenth part.
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Examples
- Three months comprised thirteen weeks. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The strait is only thirteen miles wide in its narrowest part. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Over thirteen, sir, replied the child. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It crosses thirteen states; it is carried on 130,000 poles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl--she looked thirteen or upwards. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In Berlin there is a rifled cannon of 1664 with thirteen grooves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- By these improvements he succeeded in raising the speed of steam-vessels to thirteen miles an hour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Printers get six dollars and a half a month, but I have heard of a foreman who gets thirteen. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The captain said she had once gone at the rate of thirteen knots, which is accounted thirteen miles per hour. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- To the west of the thirteen states stretched limitless lands into which settlers were now pushing in ever-increasing numbers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In which thirteen African Lions and twenty-two Barbarian Prisoners will war with each other until all are exterminated. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- St. Sophia is a colossal church, thirteen or fourteen hundred years old, and unsightly enough to be very, very much older. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I went from her when I was only thirteen, and I never saw her again! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The fort ran across this peninsula, about five hundred yards in width, and extended along the sea coast about thirteen hundred yards. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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