ninety

«ninety» in Mova's school dictionary: the number 90 — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

number (ninety); noun (the nineties)

meaning for a pupil

1) Ninety is the number 90. It is nine tens. tree →

2) «The nineties» are the numbers or ages from 90 to 99, or the years of a century ending in 90 to 99. tree →

3) A ninety-degree angle is a right angle, a square corner. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: a count written in words; a right angle is 90 degrees; 90 minutes is an hour and a half. In everyday life: prices, ages, temperatures, a 90-minute football (soccer) match. In stories: «going ninety miles an hour» means going very fast.

examples

• The book has ninety pages. tree →
• Ninety people came to the fair. tree →
• He paid ninety cents. tree →
• A right angle measures ninety degrees. tree →
• A soccer match lasts ninety minutes. tree →
• My great-grandma is ninety. tree →
• Ninety plus ten is a hundred. tree →
• The corner of a book is a ninety-degree angle. tree →
• Who would have believed a woman past ninety could walk with such speed? tree →

note

A number written in words; read it as 90. Trap: do not confuse ninety (90) with nineteen (19). Spelling: ninety keeps the «e», but ninth drops it. A right angle = 90°. 90 minutes = 1 hour 30 minutes.

In the corpora

• devyanOsto means ninety; it is an odd one, not built as «nine» plus «-ty».

Trees and pragmatics

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