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- noun Plural form of
sixth .
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Examples
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You like cutting your frozen pizza in sixths so you can shove it in your face faster.
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You like cutting your frozen pizza in sixths so you can shove it in your face faster.
Boom, Roasted: Fanatical Pupil Edition | Fanatical Pupil 2009
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It ends with Rubinstein's sign and seal, an arpeggio in sixths, which is as trite a musical finis as fiction's "They lived happily ever afterward, surrounded by a large circle of admiring friends."
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We cannot safely reorganize a republican government on the basis of one-sixth of its population, and shall be absolutely compelled to avail ourselves of that additional three-sixths which is loyal and black.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various
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Now that IceCube is up and running, Feng says he's especially interested in what it might reveal about dark matter, mysterious material that scientists postulate makes up five-sixths of the mass of the universe, but which has never been detected directly.
IceCube opens up a window on energy in the universe Eric Niiler 2011
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(Some puff pastry is packaged in smaller sheets, in this case cut each piece of dough into quarters or sixths.)
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In his experience, orchestral works by composers of Chinese or Japanese origin just featured a lot of "the stereotypical sounds of that region," such as a pentatonic melody with a parallel harmony in fifths classical European music favors parallelisms in thirds or sixths or the insertion of gongs or bamboo flutes.
O for a Thousand Pipes to Sing Lee Lawrence 2011
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Cut about half of the plums into quarters and half into sixths (the size variety helps them fit into the pie plate well).
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Now that IceCube is up and running, Feng says he's especially interested in what it might reveal about dark matter, mysterious material that scientists postulate makes up five-sixths of the mass of the universe, but which has never been detected directly.
IceCube opens up a window on energy in the universe Eric Niiler 2011
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You know, he likes those strange sixths and major seconds and sevenths that I already got tired of along time ago.
Mike Ragogna: Never Been Gone : A Conversation With Carly Simon 2010
dclose73 commented on the word sixths
This is one of my absolute favorite words because it is so slithery fun to say. It is one of the rare English words with a cluster of four consonant phones /ˈsɪksθs/. As you speak that word-final consonant cluster, your tongue darts out and back in quickly as if it realized it shouldn't have stepped out in the first place. :)
July 18, 2012