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UK
/nˈaɪn/
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[ US /ˈnaɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈnaɪn/ ]
NOUN
- the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
- one of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face
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a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
each club played six home games with teams in its own division
ADJECTIVE
- denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten
How To Use nine In A Sentence
- Maurice Mair seemed to spin like a teetotum and pitch upon his face like a ninepin. The Complete Father Brown
- So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
- A couple of commendable but slight folk covers albums in the early Nineties lead to assertions of writer's block. The Sun
- In July, the project came to a standstill for nine days when workers stopped to oppose the use of non-union contract labour on the site.
- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Attention, Kmart shoppers: privacy for sale, aisle nine.
- By then, the town had been well-fortified and withstood a siege of nine weeks before the Mexicans were forced to surrender from starvation. Cinco de Mayo: What is everybody celebrating?
- Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01
- - PBL Media and ninemsn jointly purchased 35% of 3P the owner of Mathletics, a subscription driven website that has 400K students in Aust + NZ using it. 400K Mathletics X $99 Per Annum = 35% ninemsn.
- Moreover, don't these choices facilitate a feminist reading of the text, deconstructing sentimentality to expose masculine failings and feminine rebellion?