noun
definition
A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.
example
Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?
definition
A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.
numeral
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The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
Examples of fifty in a Sentence
Now you've got fifty seconds!
It was nearly dark and she was a good fifty miles from home.
We need an exact location too, within fifty or a hundred feet.
They say fifty thousand people have hit their web site!
Fifty one abductors are either in prison or awaiting trial on serious sexual offenses.
Yeah, you must weigh all of fifty pounds.
They've got fifty agents going all over the state of Idaho looking for an old lady.
Maybe that's why you were so damn quick to be willing to take less than fifty percent of the land!
If you had looked ahead fifty years to 1240, you wouldn't have anticipated much change.
As I write this, something like fifty million blogs and billions of blog posts are online.
So he saves fifty cents 'cause the night light isn't burning?
That must be three hundred and fifty miles from here!
You're saying there are fifty cracks in the Lake of Souls?
A typical year saw four hundred inches of snow fall atop Red Mountain, a hundred and seventy-five inches in Ouray, and perhaps a foot in Montrose, all within fifty miles.
She has a hundred and fifty years on him, and she just turned him.
Quite recently, another mode of budding has been described in Trypanosyllis gemmipara, where a crowd of some fifty buds arising symmetrically are produced at the tail end of the worm.
A wild-eyed, crazed techno-optimist of the nineteenth century concluded that in fifty years there would be a telephone in every town in America.
Fifty million Tweets a day.
The herds, which are led by females, appear in general to be family parties; and although commonly restricted to from thirty to fifty, may occasionally include as many as one hundred head.
The fifty daughters of Nereus, the Nereids, are personifications of the smiling, quiet sea.
Being surrounded by its ancient walls, and retaining thirteen out of its original fifty towers, it is, with its predominantly Gothic architecture, a thoroughly medieval town in appearance.
The Bohemian historian, Palacky, fifty years ago thoroughly disproved this accusation, and, though it has recently been revived by German historians, it must undoubtedly be considered as a calumny.
A special guard of fifty soldiers was appointed to protect the sacred standard.
All French sailors between the ages of eighteen and fifty must be enrolled as members of the armte de me,.
Jarrah timber is nearly impervious to the attacks of the teredo, and there is good evidence to show that, exposed to wear and weather, or placed under the soil, or used as submarine piles, the wood remained intact after nearly fifty years' trial.
So far this form of winning is chiefly carried on in New South Wales, where there are about fifty gold-dredging plants in successful operation.
It was provided that a person was to be prohibited from landing in Australia who failed to write in any prescribed language fifty words dictated to him by the commonwealth officer supervising immigration.
The works of Boole are thus contained in about fifty scattered articles and a few separate publications.
Cromwell was not the originator of this act, but showed his approval of it by taking his seat among the fifty or sixty Independent members who remained.
He immediately brought forward a scheme for improving the condi - tion of the poorer clergy by equalizing the incomes of the bishops, the reception of which at the time may be imagined, though it was substantially the same as that carried into effect by Lord Melbourne's government fifty years later.
There is hardly one of Wagner's orchestral innovations which is not inseparably connected with his adaptation of music to the re q uirements of drama; and modern conductors, in treating Wagner's orchestration, as the normal standard by which all previous and contemporary music must be judged, are doing their best to found a tradition which in another fifty years will be exploded as thoroughly as the tradition of symphonic additional accompaniments is now exploded in the performances of Bach and Handel.
The annual expenses of the board include £35,000 for cable repairs and reserve and a fixed payment to the National Debt Commissioners of £77,544 as sinking fund to amortise capital expenditure in fifty years.
The instrument was described in over fifty publications 6 in various countries, and was well known to physicists previous to Bell's introduction of the electric telephone as a competitor with the electric telegraph.
In addition to these there were in Ghent in 1901 fifty religious houses of various orders.
He occupied the post of surveyor of the royal works for fifty years, but by a shameful cabal was dismissed from this office a few years before his death He died in 1723, and is buried under the choir of St Paul's; on a tablet over the inner north doorway is the well-known epitaph - Si monumentum requiris, circumspice.
Brown and Escombe have shown that the amount of solar energy taken up by a green leaf may often be fifty times as much as it can utilize in the constructive processes of which it is the seat.
The arctic flora contains no genus that is peculiar to it, and only some fifty species that are so.
Between fifty and sixty so-called families of land birds alone are found within its limits, and of them at least nine are peculiar; the typical genera of which are Buphaga, Euryceros, Philepitta, Musophaga, Irrisor, Leptosoma, Colius, Serpentarius, Struthio, Aepyornis.
He engraved about fifty plates, according to the usual reckoning; some thirty of them are mostly accounted indisputable - often large, full of figures, and highly studied.
Still there was a wide difference between the duke of the Normans and the duke of Apulia, between an hereditary prince of a hundred and fifty years' standing and an adventurer who had carved out his duchy for himself.
During the next fifty years three unsuccessful attempts were made by the Spaniards to subdue this courageous people.
The people unhesitatingly awarded their "champion" a bodyguard of fifty men (afterwards four hundred) armed with clubs.
Every industrial concern employing fifty hands or over elects one or more delegates to the electoral P ?
On the three-fields system corn has been grown upon it for fifty to seventy consecutive years without manure.
The serfdom which had sprung up in Russia in the 16th century, and became consecrated by law in 1609, taking, however, nearly one hundred and fifty years to attain its full growth, was abolished in 1861.
When workmen from any province come, for instance, to St Petersburg to engage in the textile industries, or to work as carpenters, masons, &c., they immediately unite in groups of ten to fifty persons, settle in a house together, keep a common table and pay each his part of the expense to the elected elder of the artel.
Failure to comply with any of the rules renders a company " liable for each offence, on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or in the case of a continuing offence to a fine not exceeding ten pounds for every day during which the offence continues after conviction."
In the course of the fighting which ensued some fifty German sailors and marines were killed or wounded by the adherents of Mataafa.
He was now over fifty and his sight showed serious symptoms of enfeeblement.
He continued to reside at Avignon despite the arguments of envoys and the verses of Petrarch, but threw a sop to the Romans by reducing the Jubilee term from one hundred years to fifty.