Word Finder - five

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The digit/figure 5.

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He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.

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A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.

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Can anyone here change a five?

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Anything measuring five units, as length.

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All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.

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A person who is five years old.

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The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.

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Five o'clock.

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See you at five.

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A short rest, especially one of five minutes.

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Take five, soldier.

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A basketball team, club or lineup.

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A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.

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Describing a group or set with five elements.

I've waited at that station for five hours.

I'll see you at five, then.

A lot can happen in four or five days.

Roll a five or a seven and you're history.

Carmen was looking at someone behind the camera and Alex was looking at a girl who stood about five feet from him.

Felipa left the room five minutes before Tessa left.

Not even a path had existed here when she lived in the area five years ago.

I'm sorry you're unhappy with my questions, but I need to know why you suddenly needed a girl after going five years without any.

We crammed in five sessions with three positive achievements, a new record.

Anyway, we'll reach Ashley in four or five more days.

Whatever happens, it's not going beyond the five of us.

I sat at the desk as he reclined on the bed, more suitable to his five foot seven frame.

She increased our supply by five dollars' worth, just in case.

In 2000, Africa had fewer than five million Internet users.

The keyboard has five keys similar to those of a piano, and the letters and figures are obtained by the different combinations which can be formed by the raised and depressed keys.

Subsequently, in conjunction with Wheatstone, he introduced another form, in which five vertical index needles, each worked by a separate multiplier, were made to point out the letters on a dial.

Each receiver is provided with five electromagnets corresponding to the five keys of the keyboard, and the armatures of the electromagnets can thus repeat the various combinations for all the signals allocated to the different combinations of the keys.

Our work schedule encompassed five intense days, Monday through Friday.

It's only five AM in California.

Give me five minutes.

The Daniell type consists of a teak trough divided into five cells by slate partitions coated with marine glue.

Then he ordered his treasurer to pay the poet five hundred pieces of gold; for, indeed, the poem which he had recited was wonderfully fine.

The house was far too large for us with five bedrooms and three baths but Betsy had plans!

He now knew there were five of us although no other information was conveyed to him.

By the way, if you took my bet, you lost five bucks.

I'll count to five?

He gave me five days.

All five are sealed.

She once had said she wanted five children.

Just go four or five doors, and it'll be on your right.

Of still greater importance for the history of Napoleon are Fain's Memoires, which were published posthumously in 1908; they relate more particularly to the last five years of the empire, and give a detailed picture of the emperor at work on his correspondence among his confidential secretaries.

The care of his diocese and of his new foundation were not enough for his ardent charity, and in 1609 he published his famous introduction to a Devout Life, a work which was at once translated into the chief European languages and of which he himself published five editions.

For political purposes these are subdivided into eight subordinate groups, consisting of three residencies and five agencies.

At regular intervals a rotating arm on the distributor connects the five keys of each keyboard to line, thus passing the signals to the distant station, where they pass through the distributor and certain relays which repeat the currents corresponding to the depressed keys and actuate electromagnets in the receivers.

In the course of the summer he took the fortresses of Arad, Lippa and Vilagos; provided himself with guns and trained gunners; and one of his bands advanced to within five leagues of the capital.

The city has five gates, and from one of them, called Bala Khiaban gate (upper Khiaban), the main street (Khiaban), 25 yds.

In 1537 he was invited to Denmark by Christian III., and remained five years in that country, organizing the church (though only a presbyter, he consecrated the new Danish bishops) and schools.

In 1796 he returned to France, and next year he was sent by Lyons as a deputy to the Council of Five Hundred.

The Nahr Malk or royal river, modern Radhwaniya, leaves the Euphrates five leagues below this and joins the Tigris three leagues below Ctesiphon; while the Kutha, modern Habl-Ibrahim, leaving the Euphrates three leagues below the Malk joins the Tigris ten leagues below Ctesiphon.

In response to the imperial summons, five to six hundred bishops, all Eastern, except the Roman legates and two Africans, assembled in Chalcedon on the Sth of October 451.

As settled by him, and in part perhaps also by his successor Tiberius, it fell into the following five administrative areas.

Partly on account of his inability to share in the amusements of his fellows by reason of a deformity due to vaccine poisoning before he was five (the poison permanently arresting the growth and development of his legs), he was an eager student, and in 1814 he graduated at the College of South Carolina with the highest rank in his class and with a reputation throughout the state for scholarship and eloquence.

He was five times president of the Royal Astronomical Society, was correspondent of the French Academy and belonged to many other foreign and American societies.

Duke William was undisputed master of England at the end of five years; it took Count Roger thirty years to make himself undisputed master of Sicily.

But in Sicily we see the quite different phenomenon of three, four, five classes of men living side by side, each keeping its own nationality and speaking its own tongue.

The general assembly elects the five judges who compose the high court.

Betsy offered as the five of us brainstormed.

While Merrill Cooms knew there were five of us and had spoken to each, we'd never identified which one of us held the gift.

Want to lose a quick five bucks?

I'm not doing this for the five hundred dollars or getting in your book.