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[ adjective ] denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units
Synonyms Used in print (Sports Age, 24:9...)Unlimited game bags are possible and legal in more_than 40 states , on shooting_preserves ( one of the newer phases of modern game management ) for five and six months each_year . Would you like to organize Teen Hunters Clubs , shooting programs , and have information on seasons including six months of hunting with unlimited game bags on shooting_preserves ? (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)Below the fort , high bluffs extended uninterruptedly for six miles along the Mississippi_River . (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)In six months O_'_Banion had boosted the profits to $ 100000 a month - mainly by bringing pressure to bear on fifty Chicago speak-easy proprietors to shift out to the suburb . (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)They hurled a cement barge against a freighter in Honolulu_Harbor , knocked_down telephone_lines , marooned automobiles , flooded lawns , killed six cows . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
Synonyms 6 half_a_dozen sestet Captain_Hicks sise sextet sixer sextuplet hexad VI Used in print (Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)Do this exercise six times each class period . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)Maple and ash , beech and elm , one_hundred to win on Three in the fourth , fifty to win on Six in the third , one_hundred to win on Two in the eighth . (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)Its citizens spoke all_of the world 's surviving tongues , plus a new one called Lingo , a pidgin whose vocabulary was derived from the other six and whose syntax was so simple it could be contained on half a sheet_of_paper . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)To them he could have been the broken bell in the church_tower which rang before and after Mass , and at noon , and at six each evening - its tone , repetitive , monotonous , never breaking the boredom of the streets . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 9282
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