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NINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("nine" is a kind of...):
spot (a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
Example:
each club played six home games with teams in its own division
Synonyms:
ball club; baseball club; club; nine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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:
The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
Synonyms:
9; ennead; IX; Nina from Carolina; nine; niner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("nine" is a kind of...):
digit; figure (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten
Synonyms:
9; ix; nine
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
The others had been born earlier in the year and were nine and ten months old, while White Fang was only eight months old.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A product containing nine individual units.
(Nine Pack, NCI Thesaurus)
I'm rather proud of my wife's feet, and don't mind if she does pay eight or nine dollars for her boots, if they are good ones.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“There is a train at half-past nine,” said I, glancing over my Bradshaw.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One of nine essential amino acids in humans (provided by food), Leucine is important for protein synthesis and many metabolic functions.
(Leucine, NCI Thesaurus)
The two patients in this study are unrelated, one nine and the other 19 years old.
(“Sixth sense” may be more than just a feeling, NIH)
A self-report assessment tool to screen for the intensity of nine symptoms commonly experienced by cancer patients in palliative care.
(Edmonton Symptom Assessment System, NCI Thesaurus)
It was dawn by three in the morning, and twilight lingered till nine at night.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
In nine cases out of ten a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A non taxonomic grouping of bacteria assigned to and including at least nine related species from the Burkholderia genus.
(Burkholderia cepacia Complex, NCI Thesaurus)
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