SIX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does six mean? 

• SIX (noun)
  The noun SIX has 2 senses:

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

2. a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips

  Familiarity information: SIX used as a noun is rare.

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

1. denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

6; Captain Hicks; half a dozen; hexad; sestet; sextet; sextuplet; sise; six; sixer; VI

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

six; six-spot

Hypernyms ("six" 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)

• SIX (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units

Synonyms:

6; half-dozen; half dozen; six; vi

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

Six years have passed since I resolved on my present undertaking.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“I ain't got no call to go and tell her so. I never said six words to her myself, I ain't a-goin' to tell her so.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He fired rapidly, six times, and six of the pack lay dead or dying—another manifestation of power that sank deep into White Fang's consciousness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A mixture of six synthetic oligopeptides in which the peptides are conjugated to metamelphalan, with alkylating and potential antineoplastic activity.

(Peptichemio, NCI Thesaurus)

The multi-subunit PA700 complex binds two sites of the 20S proteasome and is composed of at least six related ATPases and approximately fifteen non-ATPase polypeptides.

(PA700 Regulatory Module, NCI Thesaurus)

Until six o'clock they are to try to rest.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For vomiting in children and adults, avoid solid foods until vomiting has stopped for at least six hours.

(Nausea and Vomiting, NIH)

Well, he likes being there, and he told me he should be away quite six weeks; he is well looked after there.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A group of six muscles that are responsible for moving the eye.

(Oculomotor Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)

“Why, from about noon observation to about six bells.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)