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five

/fahyv/US // faɪv //UK // (faɪv) //

五,五个,五位,五名

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, four plus one.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 5 or V.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
    • : a playing card, die face, or half of a domino face with five pips.
    • : Informal. a five-dollar bill: Can you give me two fives for a ten?
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to five in number.

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Examples

  • “It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.

  • The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.

  • The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.

  • After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

  • “The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.

  • I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

  • Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.

  • Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.

  • These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.

  • At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.