nine
/naɪn/ noun C2- The digit or figure 9.
- A playing card with nine pips.
- A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
- A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.), counting the number of digits nine in a percentage. · They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines.
- A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
Plural nines
From the library
He said he knew it was the spirit of his brother and that it was a warning he would die within nine days.
Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
(Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.
“Whoever lives there,” thought Alice, “it’ll never do to come upon them _this_ size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!” So she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.
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