fourteenth

«fourteenth» in Mova's school dictionary: number 14 in order — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

ordinal number, adjective, noun (fourteenth, 14th; a fourteenth, fourteenths)

meaning for a pupil

1) Fourteenth is number 14 in order. tree →

2) A fourteenth is one of 14 equal parts of something, written 1/14. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: a position in a line or list (13 are ahead), or a fraction with 14 equal parts; everyday life: the fourteenth floor, a fourteenth birthday

examples

• Tom is fourteenth in the line. tree →
• The fourteenth page has a picture. tree →
• One fourteenth of the cake is left. tree →
• Who is fourteenth in the race? tree →
• Her fourteenth birthday is in spring. tree →
• One fourteenth of 28 is 2. tree →
• The fourteenth night had come, and in despair the prisoner went out to take his last walk through the city. tree →

note

As a position it is a place, not an amount; as «a fourteenth» it is 1/14. Trap: being fourteenth in line means 13 people are ahead. Short form 14th.

In the corpora

• In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at dusk, is the LORD'S passover.
• And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the LORD'S passover.
• to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
• And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
• For the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fourteenth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.