NINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nine mean? 

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

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

2. a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together

3. one of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face

  Familiarity information: NINE used as a noun is uncommon.

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

1. denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

9; ennead; IX; Nina from Carolina; nine; niner

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ball club; baseball club; club; nine

Context example:

each club played six home games with teams in its own division

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

baseball team (a team that plays baseball)

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

baseball league (a league of baseball teams)

Sense 3

Meaning:

One of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

nine; nine-spot

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

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

• NINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten

Synonyms:

9; ix; nine

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

The clerk Gorot has been shadowed all these nine weeks, but without result.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I take a gentleman to my house, no matter whether he is nineteen, twenty-nine, or ninety, I take him there in a spirit of confidence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The nine paired arteries arising from the aorta that supply the intercostal spaces (area between the ribs).

(Intercostal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

So Teresa Silva, aged nine, opened his letters and read them to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Every single stool sample tested positive for the presence of microplastic, and up to nine different plastic types were identified.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)

Egl nine homolog 1 (426 aa, ~46 kDa) is encoded by the human EGLN1 gene.

(Egl Nine Homolog 1, NCI Thesaurus)

After this still more came, each with one tail more than the other, but they were all turned away, until at last one came who had nine tails, like old Mr Fox.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A normal pregnancy lasts nine months.

(Fetal Health and Development, NIH)

A human life stage, during prenatal development, that typically begins at the beginning of nine weeks after fertilization (full formation of the embryo) and continues until birth.

(Fetal Stage, NICHD)

And here it may, perhaps, divert the curious reader, to give some account of my domestics, and my manner of living in this country, during a residence of nine months, and thirteen days.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)