sixth

«sixth» in Mova's school dictionary: number 6 in order, after the fifth — 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 (sixth, sixths)

meaning for a pupil

1) Sixth means number 6 in order, after the fifth. tree →

2) A sixth is one of six equal parts of a whole, written 1/6. tree →

3) A sixth sense is a feeling that you know something without seeing or hearing it. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: an order word (6th grade) or a fraction: a sixth of 30 is 5. Everyday: sixth grade, sixth form (in the UK, the last two years of school), sixth sense.

examples

• He is in the sixth grade. tree →
• A sixth of 30 is 5. tree →
• She ate one sixth of the cake. tree →
• On the sixth day he had 18 coins. tree →
• A die has numbers from one to six, so each side is one sixth of the chances. tree →
• Our team came sixth in the league. tree →
• She had a sixth sense that something was wrong. tree →
• The sixth time the King exclaimed, ‘It is amazing!’ tree →

note

Written 6th. As a fraction, divide by 6; as order, it points to one item. Trap: none. Hard to say: «siksth».

In the corpora

• Mia's sofa fitted five, and the sixth kid always ended up on the floor.
• On the Moon you would weigh about one sixth of your weight on Earth, and on Jupiter more than twice as much.
• Gravity on the Moon is about one sixth of the Earth's, so you would feel six times lighter there.
• The Moon's gravity is about one sixth of the Earth's gravity.
• And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Trees and pragmatics

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