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six
  1. The digit or figure 6.
  2. (six o'clock) Rear, behind (rear side of something).
  3. (cricket, countable) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
  4. (American football) A touchdown.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “A robot system for use in surgical procedures has two movable arms, each carried on a wheeled base, with each arm having a six of degrees of freedom of movement.”
sixth
  1. (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the sixth position.
  2. One of six equal parts of a whole.
  3. (music) The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale, for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth. (Note that the interval covers six notes counting inclusively, for example C-D-E-F-G-A.)
sixes
  1. (poker slang) A pair of sixes.
  2. Short for six of one, half a dozen of the other.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “They scored at more than five an over throughout, their batsmen hitting 10 sixes and 54 fours in 79.2 overs.”
      “But when following suit the 6-5 can be used to follow to a lead of either sixes or fives.”
      “He hit almost half his side's total of 269-6, blasting 19 fours and three sixes.”
sixshooter
  1. A revolver with a cylinder that holds six bullets. A six-gun.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A gas field discovery at Sixshooter Dome in central Montana, that last year added 3 Bcf to reserves, could ultimately yield 9 to 12 Bcf.”
sixies
  1. A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where six actions must be performed.
  2. Examples:
    1. “She missed on sixies, and then it was my turn, my last chance to beat her and claim the championship. I selected my spot, tossed the jacks.”
sixling
  1. A compound or twin crystal consisting of six individuals.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The original cordierite crystals were sixling twins that give the pseudomorphs a flower-shaped cross section.”
sixareen
sixish
  1. (colloquial) Any time close to six o'clock.
  2. Examples:
    1. “So when the phone rings at round sixish at home, that's when I jump the most.”
      “Our day usually starts at sixish when my eight-month-old wakes me up.”
sixsome
  1. A group of six persons or things.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In the blue sitting room, a sixsome of Civil War buffs mapped out battlefield campaigns.”
      “They were going to see a show in the city and they'd brought along a nice single friend of theirs to make up the sixsome.”
      “We became a very contented foursome, except when Charles and Jane were with us and we were a sixsome.”
sixern
  1. Alternative form of sixareen
sixfoldness
  1. The property of being sixfold.
sixness
  1. The property of being six in number.
sixshooters
  1. plural of sixshooter
sixareens
  1. plural of sixareen
sixlings
  1. plural of sixling
sixsomes
sixerns
  1. plural of sixern
sixths
  1. plural of sixth
  2. Examples:
    1. “Trim off the tough outer stems and stalk of the fennel, then cut each bulb in half and each half into sixths.”
      “Also, in bar 5 the bass is in thirds with the melody while in all other versions it is in sixths.”
      “Several selections contain strings of double notes, primarily thirds and sixths.”
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