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sixth::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | 6th |
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| Synonyms | one-sixth |
| Type of | common fraction, simple fraction |
sixth::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | rank |
sixth::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | interval, musical interval |
Examples of sixth
sixth
Adam Terry's sixth-grade science students are continuing their study of weather.
From the tennessean.com
Kane's goal 4 minutes into overtime in the sixth gave Chicago the Cup on June 9.
From the dailyherald.com
Riley was third at the district meet while Watt was sixth and Bevirt was eighth.
From the stltoday.com
The sixth-grade students have started the process of writing a persuasive essay.
From the desmoinesregister.com
Eveland notched his fifth and sixth collegiate assists during the series opener.
From the omaha.com
The index, a gauge of national home prices, dipped for the sixth straight month.
From the thenewstribune.com
The Canadiens are trying to hold off the New York Rangers for sixth in the East.
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By the time he reached the Norton Sound coast at Unalakleet, he was up to sixth.
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Emma Larson, a sixth-grader at Two Springs, placed first in the poetry division.
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- Coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position
- Position six in a countable series of things
- One-sixth: one part in six equal parts
- The musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it
- (sixthly) in the sixth place; "sixthly, we cannot afford a vacation"
- In music, the sixth factor of a chord is the note or pitch six scale degrees above the root or tonal center (see sixth chord). When the sixth is the bass note, or lowest note, of the expressed chord, the chord is in third inversion . However, this is equivalent to an seventh chord.
- (The Sixths) The 6ths is a band created by Stephin Merritt, also the prime mover behind The Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes.
- An interval of a sixth which can be major (e.g. C to A), minor (e.g. C to Ab), augmented (e.g. C to A#) or diminished (e.g. C to Abb which is C to G).
- The sixth degree of the diatonic scale. Also, the interval formed by a given tone and the sixth tone above or below it, e.g. c up to a, or c down to e. Intervals of the sixth may be major, minor, diminished, or augmented.
