seventh

«seventh» in Mova's school dictionary: number 7 in order, after the sixth — 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, noun (seventh, sevenths)

meaning for a pupil

1) Seventh means number 7 in order, after the sixth. tree →

2) A seventh is one of seven equal parts of a whole, written 1/7. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: an order word (7th day, 7th grade) or a fraction: a seventh of 28 is 4. Everyday: seventh grade, the seventh floor, «in seventh heaven» means very happy.

examples

• She is in the seventh grade. tree →
• On the seventh day he rested. tree →
• A seventh of 28 is 4. tree →
• Two sevenths of the class are boys. tree →
• Our flat is on the seventh floor. tree →
• He finished seventh out of twenty runners. tree →
• When she got the puppy she was in seventh heaven. tree →
• "I, too, will try a seventh time!" cried Bruce. tree →

note

Written 7th. As order it points to an item; as a fraction it means divide by 7: a seventh of n = n ÷ 7. Trap: «seventh» order is not «seven» things. Plural «sevenths» is for fractions.

In the corpora

• A school backpack should weigh no more than about a tenth to a seventh of your body weight.
• On the seventh day God rested and blessed the day; this is the root of the weekly day of rest, the Sabbath.
• Seventh-day Adventists and some other Christians worship on Saturday instead.
• And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
• Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.

Trees and pragmatics

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