sixteenth

«sixteenth» in Mova's school dictionary: number 16 in order — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective, noun (sixteenth, sixteenths)

meaning for a pupil

1) Sixteenth means number 16 in order. tree →

2) A sixteenth is one of sixteen equal parts of a whole, written 1/16. tree →

3) The sixteenth century is the period of a hundred years from 1501 to 1600. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: an order word or a fraction (1/16), often in inches on a ruler. Music: a sixteenth note (a semiquaver). Everyday: the sixteenth floor, a sixteenth birthday.

examples

• The board is 3 and 5 sixteenths inches long. tree →
• On the sixteenth floor there are 4 flats. tree →
• A sixteenth of 32 is 2. tree →
• She cut the pie into sixteenths. tree →
• His sixteenth birthday party was at the beach. tree →
• A ruler in inches shows sixteenths. tree →
• Late as they have been collected, some dozen of the tales can be traced back to the sixteenth century, two of them being quoted by Shakespeare himself. tree →

note

Written 16th. As a fraction it means divide by 16: a sixteenth of n = n ÷ 16. Trap: none. Plural «sixteenths» is for fractions.

In the corpora

• the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer;
• For the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

Trees and pragmatics

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