FIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does five mean? 

• FIVE (noun)
  The noun FIVE has 3 senses:

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

2. a team that plays basketball

3. a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips

  Familiarity information: FIVE used as a noun is uncommon.

• FIVE (adjective)
  The adjective FIVE has 1 sense:

1. being one more than four

  Familiarity information: FIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

5; cinque; fin; five; fivesome; Little Phoebe; pentad; Phoebe; quint; quintet; quintuplet; V

Hypernyms ("five" is a kind of...):

digit; figure (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A team that plays basketball

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

basketball team; five

Hypernyms ("five" is a kind of...):

squad; team (a cooperative unit (especially in sports))

Meronyms (members of "five"):

forward (a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team)

center (a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game)

guard (a position on a basketball team)

Holonyms ("five" is a member of...):

basketball league (a league of basketball teams)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

five; five-spot

Hypernyms ("five" is a kind of...):

dice; die (a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers)

domino (a small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots)

spot (a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value)

• FIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being one more than four

Synonyms:

5; five; v

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

“All of the particles charged well, and about two to five percent didn’t come out of the tumbler,” said Mendez Harper.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

“That affair of the first bond for four thousand five hundred pounds has not taken the course that was expected, Spiker,” said Mr. Gulpidge.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A research group has developed a camera that can film at a rate equivalent to five trillion images per second, or events as short as 0.2 trillionths of a second.

(World's Fastest Film Camera, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Under the watchful eyes of five high-speed cameras, a small bird named Gary waits for the signal to fly.

(Researchers study birds to improve how robots land, National Science Foundation)

The camp was suddenly discovered to be alive with skulking furry forms,—starving huskies, four or five score of them, who had scented the camp from some Indian village.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The huntsman took up his bow, and at one shot struck all the five eggs as his father wished.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Dr Mujcic found participants were at their happiest when they ate five portions of fruit and four portions of vegetables each day.

(Fruit and veggies pave the road to happiness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Under the right conditions, evolution can lead to adaptive shifts in just five or 10 generations.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

According to France’s Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition, the forecast peak for the Seine is about four to five meters above its normal height.

(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)

Researchers found that poor diets leading to cardiovascular disease and cancer caused almost 11 million deaths, or one in every five deaths, worldwide in 2017.

(Poor Diet Kills More People Than Smoking, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)