📖 S — The English dictionary · page 51

situate — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Placed or lying in a certain spot.↗ Example: Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and of the sea her wall?↗ (Prophets NAM.3.8, JPS 1917)↗

situated — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Situated means placed or found in a certain place.↗ e.g. The school is situated near the river.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Well or badly situated can mean being in a good or bad position for something.↗ Example: The village is situated at the foot of a hill.↗ · Our school is situated next to a park.↗ · London is situated on the River Thames.↗ · The library is conveniently situated near the bus stop.↗ · Where is the heart situated in the body?↗ · The farm was situated far from any town.↗ · Find on the map where the volcano is situated.↗ · The hotel is well situated for the beach.↗ · The road led through an olive-grove, and here the solitary inn was situated.↗

situation — Everyday, meaning 1: A situation is everything that is happening at a certain time and place, and how things are.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A situation can be a problem or a difficult moment you need to deal with.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The situation of a building or town is where it is placed.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A situation can also mean a job or post, especially as a servant.↗ Example: In an emergency situation, call for help.↗ · What would you do in this situation?↗ · The weather made the situation worse.↗ · Lost in the woods, they were in a scary situation.↗ · Read the situation in the word problem, then write a number sentence.↗ · The teacher calmed the situation down.↗ · The situation at home is better now.↗ · Role-play helps us practise difficult situations.↗ · And the Prince got the situation of Imperial Swineherd.↗ · Twenty-two letters are formed by the voice, impressed on the air, and audibly uttered in five situations, in the throat, guttural sounds; in the palate, palatals; by the tongue, linguals; through the teeth, dentals; and by the lips, labial sounds.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · Fair in situation, the joy of the whole earth; even mount Zion, the uttermost parts of the north, the city of the great King.↗ (Writings PSA.48.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And the men of the city said unto Elisha: 'Behold, we pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth; but the water is bad, and the land miscarrieth.↗ (Prophets 2KI.2.19, JPS 1917)↗

sivan — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Sivan is the name of a Hebrew month, usually in late spring.↗ Example: The twelve months of the year are: Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tamus, Ab, Elul, Tishri, Marcheshvan, Kislev, Teves, Schevat and Adar.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · God produced Zain, predominant in movement, crowned, combined, and formed Gemini in the world, Sivan in the year, and the left foot of man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · He produced Zain, predominant in Movement, crowned it, combined and formed it with Gemini in the Universe, Sivan in the Year, and the left foot of Man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

siwan — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The name of the third month of the Hebrew calendar, usually in late spring (May or June).↗ Example: He made the letter Zayin reign, and bound to it a crown, and formed with it Gemini in the World, and Siwan in the year, and the right leg in the Person.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

six — Everyday, meaning 1: Six is the number 6, one more than five.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A six is the digit 6, or a hit worth six runs in cricket.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «At sixes and sevens» means in a muddle.↗ Example: Student: six apples and three pears.↗ · Six birds sit on a branch.↗ · Sam has six boxes with four toys in each.↗ · An insect has 6 legs.↗ · A dice has six sides with dots from 1 to 6.↗ · I get up at six o'clock.↗ · A box of six eggs is half a dozen.↗ · Six is an even number.↗ · Nana, it isn’t six o’clock yet.↗ · and thirty and six thousand beeves, (Torah NUM.31.44, JPS 1917)↗ · Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; (Torah EXO.20.9, JPS 1917)↗ · So for the six branches going out of the candlestick.↗ (Torah EXO.37.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus shalt thou do six days.↗ (Prophets JOS.6.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jephthah judged Israel six years.↗ (Prophets JDG.12.7, JPS 1917)↗ · The men of Netophah, fifty and six.↗ (Writings EZR.2.22, JPS 1917)↗

sixpence — Everyday, meaning 1: A sixpence was a small British coin worth six old pennies, used until Britain changed to decimal money and kept for a while after.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old-fashioned) Sixpence is the amount of six old pennies.↗ Example: «Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye.»↗ · Grandma found a sixpence in her Christmas pudding.↗ · When Grandad was a boy, a comic cost sixpence.↗ · Sixpence was worth half a shilling.↗ · The bride had a sixpence in her shoe for good luck.↗ · That little car can turn on a sixpence.↗ · The old sixpence was also called a «tanner».↗ · "You might give me sixpence, Daddy," said Effie, "because I did bring you the new specimen.↗

sixteen — Everyday, meaning 1: Sixteen is the number 16, one more than fifteen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sixteen is ten and six, or four fours.↗ A pound has 16 ounces.↗ Example: Sixteen children are in the class.↗ · A pound has sixteen ounces.↗ · She is sixteen years old.↗ · Sixteen divided by four is four.↗ · Four squared is sixteen.↗ · The bus has sixteen seats on the top deck.↗ · There are sixteen pieces of each colour in this game.↗ · He had been the ruler of Rome for sixteen days.↗ · And the persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.↗ (Torah NUM.31.40, JPS 1917)↗ · And there were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets: under every board two sockets.↗ (Torah EXO.36.30, JPS 1917)↗ · These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.↗ (Torah NUM.26.22, JPS 1917)↗ · and Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.↗ (Prophets JOS.15.41, JPS 1917)↗ · He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.↗ (Writings 2CH.27.8, JPS 1917)↗ · But Abijah waxed mighty, and took unto himself fourteen wives, and begot twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.↗ (Writings 2CH.13.21, JPS 1917)↗

sixteenth — Everyday, meaning 1: Sixteenth means number 16 in order.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sixteenth is one of sixteen equal parts of a whole, written 1/16.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The sixteenth century is the period of a hundred years from 1501 to 1600.↗ Example: The board is 3 and 5 sixteenths inches long.↗ · On the sixteenth floor there are 4 flats.↗ · A sixteenth of 32 is 2.↗ · She cut the pie into sixteenths.↗ · His sixteenth birthday party was at the beach.↗ · A ruler in inches shows sixteenths.↗ · Late as they have been collected, some dozen of the tales can be traced back to the sixteenth century, two of them being quoted by Shakespeare himself.↗ · The Sixteenth Path is the Triumphal or Eternal Intelligence, so called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no other Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Sixteenth Path is the Triumphal or Eternal In- telligence, so called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no other Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer; (Writings 1CH.24.14, JPS 1917)↗ · For the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.23, JPS 1917)↗

sixth — Everyday, meaning 1: Sixth means number 6 in order, after the fifth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sixth is one of six equal parts of a whole, written 1/6.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A sixth sense is a feeling that you know something without seeing or hearing it.↗ Example: He is in the sixth grade.↗ · A sixth of 30 is 5.↗ · She ate one sixth of the cake.↗ · On the sixth day he had 18 coins.↗ · A die has numbers from one to six, so each side is one sixth of the chances.↗ · Our team came sixth in the league.↗ · She had a sixth sense that something was wrong.↗ · The sixth time the King exclaimed, ‘It is amazing!’↗ · And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.↗ (Torah GEN.1.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.↗ (Torah GEN.30.19, JPS 1917)↗ · On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad: (Torah NUM.7.42, JPS 1917)↗ · Ozem the sixth, David the seventh.↗ (Writings 1CH.2.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh; (Writings 1CH.12.12, JPS 1917)↗ · and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah David's wife.↗ (Prophets 2SA.3.5, JPS 1917)↗

sixty — Everyday, meaning 1: Sixty is the number 60, which is six tens.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An hour has 60 minutes and a minute has 60 seconds.↗ Example: There are sixty minutes in an hour.↗ · Sixty people came.↗ · A ticket costs sixty cents.↗ · What is sixty divided by five?↗ · A minute has sixty seconds.↗ · Grandma turned sixty last week.↗ · The car was going sixty kilometers an hour.↗ · “I never run less than sixty miles,” Cael replied sullenly.↗ · And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begot Jared.↗ (Torah GEN.5.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah.↗ (Torah GEN.5.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and begot Enoch.↗ (Torah GEN.5.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.↗ (Writings EZR.2.13, JPS 1917)↗

size — Everyday, meaning 1: Size is how big or how small something is: the size of an elephant.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A size is one of the set measures for clothes and shoes: shoe size 3.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Size can mean how many there are: the size of a group.↗ Example: We multiply the number of groups by the size of one group.↗ · The groups are all the same size.↗ · What is the size of each team if 20 children make 4 teams?↗ · What size shoes do you wear?↗ · A blue whale is the size of a bus.↗ · Sort the stones by size, from small to big.↗ · These trousers are the wrong size.↗ · Our class size is 28 children.↗ · for the showbread also, and for the fine flour for a meal-offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked on the griddle, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size; (Writings 1CH.23.29, JPS 1917)↗

sizzle — Everyday, meaning 1: To make a hissing, spitting sound like food frying in hot fat.↗ e.g. The sausages sizzled in the pan.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) To be very hot: a sizzling summer day.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) To be exciting or full of energy: a sizzling performance.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun) The sound of sizzling.↗ Example: The bacon sizzled in the frying pan.↗ · Stand back — the oil is sizzling!↗ · It was a sizzling hot day at the beach.↗ · I love the sizzle of sausages on a barbecue.↗ · The dancers gave a sizzling show.↗ · Water drops sizzled on the hot stove.↗ · That advert is all sizzle and no steak.↗ · In the middle of it, a pan full of oil sizzled over a smoky fire, sending out a repelling odor of tallow that took away one’s breath.↗

skate — Everyday, meaning 1: To skate means to glide on ice with ice skates or on the ground with roller skates or a skateboard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A skate is a boot with a blade or wheels on the bottom.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A skate is also a flat sea fish, a bit like a ray.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Skate can also be an insulting word for a poor, worn-out horse.↗ Example: We went ice skating at the rink on Saturday.↗ · She can skate backwards!↗ · I got new roller skates for my birthday.↗ · Always wear a helmet when you skate.↗ · Never skate on a frozen pond unless an adult says it's safe.↗ · He skated round the park on his skateboard.↗ · My skates are too small now.↗ · A skate is a flat fish that lives on the sea floor.↗ · Imagine the feelings of Sunol if a car-horse called her a “skate,” and you can imagine how the Australian horse felt.↗

skateboard — Everyday, meaning 1: A skateboard is a narrow board with four small wheels, which you stand on and ride by pushing with one foot.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To skateboard means to ride a skateboard.↗ Example: I got a skateboard for my birthday.↗ · Wear a helmet when you skateboard.↗ · We go skateboarding at the skate park.↗ · He can do a trick on his skateboard.↗ · Don't skateboard on the busy road.↗ · Her skateboard has green wheels.↗ · Skateboarding became an Olympic sport.↗