ninth

«ninth» in Mova's school dictionary: Ninth tells the place number 9 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

adjective, number (ninth); noun (a ninth, ninths)

meaning for a pupil

1) Ninth tells the place number 9 in order. tree →

2) A ninth is also one of nine equal parts of something, 1/9. tree →

3) In music, a ninth is a gap of nine notes. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: a place in order, or a fraction 1/9; written 9th. In everyday life: «ninth grade» (USA, Canada), birthdays, floors, positions in a race. In stories: «the ninth day of the trip».

examples

• She is ninth in the line. tree →
• A ninth of the pizza is left. tree →
• He finished ninth. tree →
• Two ninths of the class are boys. tree →
• My sister is in ninth grade. tree →
• Nine ninths make one whole. tree →
• It was his ninth birthday party. tree →
• The ninth planet used to be Pluto, but now it is called a dwarf planet. tree →
• The Daphnephoria was celebrated at Thebes in honour of Apollo every ninth year. tree →

note

«The ninth» is a place in order. «A ninth of» means divide by 9. Trap: do not mix the place «ninth» with the fraction 1/9. Spelling: ninth, not nineth. 9/9 = 1 whole. «The ninth in line» means 8 are in front.

In the corpora

• Great Britain is the largest island in Europe and the ninth largest in the world.
• On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin:
• Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month; and the brazier was burning before him.
• Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth;
• the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah;

Trees and pragmatics

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