Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ordinal number matching the number 60 in a series.
- noun One of 60 equal parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Next in order after the fifty-ninth: an ordinal numeral.
- Being one of sixty equal parts in to which anything is divided.
- noun One of sixty equal parts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Next in order after the fifty-ninth.
- adjective Constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.
- noun The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.
- noun The next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective The ordinal form of the number
sixty . - noun The person or thing in the sixtieth position.
- noun One of sixty equal parts of a whole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective the ordinal number of sixty in counting order
- noun one part in sixty equal parts
- noun position 60 in a countable series of things
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Examples
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In these oblations there is a progression as to the relation between the kind and the quantity: of the corn, the sixth of a tenth, that is, a sixtieth part of the quantity specified; of the oil, the tenth of a tenth, that is, an hundredth part; and of the flock, one from every two hundred.
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Even if we confine the discussion to the health care debate, where the four 'sixtieth' Senators 'appear at their most powerful, the question still remains: Does the failure to deliver a progressive bill lie in the institutional arrangements of government, or rather a failure of Democratic leadership?
Rupert Russell: Liberals Admit Mistake: Presidency Doesn't Matter After All 2009
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Not to mention the vast array of carrots and sticks that Obama has at his disposal to coax and cajole the 'sixtieth' Senators he has failed to use, and even worse, his proactive stance in empowering the Finance committee's half-Republican 'Gang of Six' that ended in disaster.
Rupert Russell: Liberals Admit Mistake: Presidency Doesn't Matter After All 2009
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Not to mention the vast array of carrots and sticks that Obama has at his disposal to coax and cajole the 'sixtieth'
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Rupert Russell 2009
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With all the corrupt Party officials and cadres taken down in this crackdown action, it still hasn't smeared the reputation of the Party, in fact has displayed the central Party leadership's resolve to fight corruption, brightening up the Party's promise, you could even say this is a great gift leading up to the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the PRC.
Global Voices in English » China: Is Bo Xilai’s corruption crackdown good for China? 2009
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On a recent business trip to SE Asia and all too aware of my impending sixtieth birthday next January, I reserved an extra day in Bangkok for some routine medical tests and procedures.
Josef Woodman: Paying for Your Trip as an Incidental Health Traveler Josef Woodman 2011
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Starting on the sixtieth floor there were small ledges protruding from the sides of the building every ten floors for supers with flight or other transportation options to land in order to access the higher floors without going through the elevator or stairs.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Call’s Review Forum 2009
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On a recent business trip to SE Asia and all too aware of my impending sixtieth birthday next January, I reserved an extra day in Bangkok for some routine medical tests and procedures.
Josef Woodman: Paying for Your Trip as an Incidental Health Traveler Josef Woodman 2011
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Policymakers and heads of state gathered in Geneva earlier this month to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1961 Statelessness Convention.
Danielle C. Jefferis: Waking Up Stateless in Jerusalem Danielle C. Jefferis 2011
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Now we're celebrating our sixtieth anniversary as Birkman International, and the Birkman Method has been used by some 3 million people and more than 5,000 organizations.
How I Invented A New Kind Of Personality Test Roger Birkman 2010
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