sixth : Idioms & Phrases


forty-sixth

  • adjective satellite the ordinal number of forty-six in counting order
    46th.
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Major sixth

  • (Mus.), a sixth of four steps and a half step. In major keys the third and sixth from the key tone are major. Major keys and intervals, as distinguished from minors, are more cheerful.
Webster 1913

one-sixth

  • noun one part in six equal parts
    sixth.
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sixth baron byron of rochdale

  • noun English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)
    Lord George Gordon Byron; Byron.
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sixth cranial nerve

  • noun a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye
    abducent; abducens; abducens nerve; abducent nerve; nervus abducens.
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sixth crusade

  • noun a Crusade from 1228 to 1229 led by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II who fell ill and was excommunicated by the Pope; by negotiation Frederick II was able to crown himself king of Jerusalem
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sixth sense

  • noun grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
    insight.
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sixth-former

  • noun a student in the sixth form
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thirty-sixth

  • adjective satellite the ordinal number of thirty-six in counting order
    36th.
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twenty-sixth

  • adjective satellite coming next after the twenty-fifth in position
    26th.
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