five-spot
五点,五点式,五斑点,五斑
Definitions
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- : a playing card or the upward face of a die bearing five pips; a domino one half of which bears five pips.
- : Slang. a five-dollar bill.
- : a low plant, Nemophila maculata, of the waterleaf family, native to western and central California, having white flowers with a purple spot at the tip of each of its five petals.
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.
Michael Steinbrick, a personal trainer with New York Sports Clubs, says he can always spot a newbie.
After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.
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.