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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

ninefold

/adjective nahyn-fohld; adverb nahyn-fohld/US // adjective ˈnaɪnˌfoʊld; adverb ˈnaɪnˈfoʊld //UK // (ˈnaɪnˌfəʊld) //

九折,九重奏,九重,九倍

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : nine times as great or as much.
    • : having nine elements or parts.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a ninefold manner or measure; to or by nine times as much: to increase one's income ninefold.

Examples

  • It may not be; the unlovely pool locks them in her gloomy wave, and Styx pours her ninefold barrier between.

  • Draw now the threefold knot firm on the ninefold bands, And the Law that ye make shall be law after the rule of your lands.

  • And I praised her ninefold, and could have gone on for an hour.

  • In the same period you may now put a girdle round the earth ninefold thick.

  • By using a lever in this way, we increased our strength ninefold.

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