sixth
/sɪksθ/ noun C2- The person or thing in the sixth position.
- One of six equal parts of a whole.
- 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.
Plural sixths
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I guess when a man has had dangers in his life—and I’ve had more than most in my time—there is a kind of sixth sense that waves the red flag.
He saw a congested flood of wagons, trucks, cabs, vans and street cars filling the vast space where Broadway, Sixth Avenue and Thirty-fourth street cross one another as a twenty-six inch maiden fills her twenty-two inch girdle.
At the fifth or sixth blow the pickaxe struck against an iron substance.
On the sixth day, the smugglers returned.
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