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UK
/sˈɪksθ/
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[ US /ˈsɪksθ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪksθ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position
NOUN
- the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it
- position six in a countable series of things
- one part in six equal parts
How To Use sixth In A Sentence
- Several selections contain strings of double notes, primarily thirds and sixths.
- There have been many histories of Jerusalem, from Jeremiah's sixth century B.C. monody to "For Jerusalem," a premature happy ending written in the 1970s by a successful mayor, Teddy Kollek. City of Peace—and War
- The eldest school of Greek philosophy, called the Ionian, was founded by Thales of Miletus, about the middle of the sixth century B.C. Mosaics of Grecian History
- I only played three carefully considered notes with intuitive regard to choice of rhythm, tempo, dynamics - using a poignant interval, the minor sixth resolving to the perfect fifth.
- The violoncello piccolo is used in Cantata BWV 6, but not in the sixth Cello Suite #6, for which the piece was scored.
- A senate committee has killed a bill that would have ended Virginia's four-year-old mandate that girls receive the vaccine that protects against the human papillomavirus before enrolling in the sixth grade. Senate panel kills bill to end Virginia's HPV vaccine mandate
- He is a green jacket away from being only the sixth man in history to complete the career grand slam. Times, Sunday Times
- For the late fifth and early sixth centuries, however, he was less constrained.
- Days moved by quickly and pretty soon, Gillian reached her sixth month check up, which this time included an ultrasound.
- Then a sixth man appeared at the door, a small strangled cry came from Miranda.
