sixth
part of speech
adjective, noun (sixth, sixths)
meaning for a pupil
1) Sixth means number 6 in order, after the fifth. tree →
2) A sixth is one of six equal parts of a whole, written 1/6. tree →
3) A sixth sense is a feeling that you know something without seeing or hearing it. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The sixth day is the last day of creation, when humans were made. It is also the day before the Sabbath. Interpretation: Tradition teaches that people were made on the sixth day, and that Friday is the day of preparing for Shabbat. In the primary lessons: Maths: an order word (6th grade) or a fraction: a sixth of 30 is 5. Everyday: sixth grade, sixth form (in the UK, the last two years of school), sixth sense.
examples
- And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. (Torah GEN.1.31, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob. (Torah GEN.30.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad: (Torah NUM.7.42, JPS 1917) tree →
- Ozem the sixth, David the seventh. (Writings 1CH.2.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh; (Writings 1CH.12.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah David's wife. (Prophets 2SA.3.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- He is in the sixth grade. tree →
- A sixth of 30 is 5. tree →
- She ate one sixth of the cake. tree →
- On the sixth day he had 18 coins. tree →
- A die has numbers from one to six, so each side is one sixth of the chances. tree →
- Our team came sixth in the league. tree →
- She had a sixth sense that something was wrong. tree →
- The sixth time the King exclaimed, ‘It is amazing!’ tree →
note
Written 6th. As a fraction, divide by 6; as order, it points to one item. Trap: none. Hard to say: «siksth».
In the corpora
- And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
- And Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
- then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth produce for the three years.
- On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad:
- And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year without blemish;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sixth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.