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单词 seventh
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Definition of seventh in English:

seventh

ordinal number ˈsɛv(ə)nθˈsɛvənθ
  • 1Constituting number seven in a sequence; 7th.

    his seventh goal of the season
    the seventh of June
    he was the seventh of eight children
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The defeat, City's seventh in eight games, leaves the Minstermen just one point clear of Division Three bottom-club Exeter City.
    • True mozzarella is made from the milk of the water buffalo, imported from India to Italy in the seventh century.
    • It features a rare seventh century Buddha from India.
    • To pass 500 in your first innings but lose, and for a seventh time in eight championship games at that, is patently demoralising.
    • It was Gillingham's seventh league defeat in a row, but coach John Gorman would not talk of relegation.
    • His aim is to discover the effect of the text's message on the earliest audience at the end of the seventh century B.C.
    • Laws made in the seventh century could finally give way to the needs of the 21st.
    • Of the few poets whose work has survived from the sixth and seventh centuries, the most notable is Pindar.
    • The history of Ely Cathedral is profound - it began as a humble Benedictine abbey in the seventh century.
    • A Graham Delaney goal in the seventh minute set them on their way.
    • There are six sites for development in Central Place, with the area opposite the Market Theatre constituting a seventh site.
    • Mayobridge spurned another goal chance on the seventh minute when a beautifully placed high ball from Benny Coulter fell to Ronan Sexton.
    • At the beginning of the seventh century St. Gobban founded a monastery at Leighlin Bridge.
    • This was Hearts' seventh defeat in eight league and cup games.
    • His seventh goal of the season required no such imagination.
    • Arab invaders brought Islam to Morocco during the seventh century.
    • Roslea is the site of an ancient church and convent dating back to the seventh century.
    • It is believed to have originated from India as early as the seventh century, although the exact origins of chess are unknown.
    • We begin with Caedmon, from the seventh century, but by page 6 we are already up to the sixteenth century.
    • Richard Burrows gave the visitors an early lead but Danny Walters hit his seventh goal of the season to level the scores.
    1. 1.1 The seventh finisher or position in a race or competition.
      Jo Richardson came seventh
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Brendan Foster set a new British record yet finished only seventh.
      • Double race winner Chilton was seventh having started tenth.
      • Briton Steve Ovett finished fifth and Sriram Singh was seventh in that memorable race.
      • He finished sixth in the 1m board event and was seventh off the 3m board.
      • The Jets finished seventh in defense, and none of the other three teams playing today ranked higher than 17th.
      • She was also seventh in the 500m time trial and plans to compete in both events.
      • We finished seventh that season and looked a good bet for promotion the following year.
      • In Athens, her Olympic career ended when she finished seventh in her 100m semi-final.
      • He has not raced since finishing seventh in an allowance race at Churchill Downs on November 28, 1998.
      • However, Yorkshire came a disappointing seventh in the team competition.
      • She finished seventh in Birmingham.
      • He was expected to finish seventh in the league.
      • In five seasons, Stewart has not finished worse than seventh in points.
      • We were picked to finish seventh or eighth but we wound up fifth.
      • Monifeth Man finishes seventh in the Coral Cup, better than any other Irish trained runner.
      • As a 24-year-old in 2001 he rode an excellent race to finish seventh overall, leading many to bill him as a future winner of the race.
      • Sunline came out of the Pukekohe race and then finished seventh in the Hong Kong Cup.
      • He finished seventh in the April race in Phoenix; he'll need to do better than that on Sunday if he hopes to catch Stewart.
      • I had my best season and still only finished seventh in the points.
      • Chantell Stierman finished seventh in the 60 kg division weightlifting.
    2. 1.2 Seventhly (used to introduce a seventh point or reason).
    3. 1.3Music An interval spanning seven consecutive notes in a diatonic scale.
    4. 1.4Music The note which is higher by a seventh than the tonic of a diatonic scale or root of a chord.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The work lies far closer, at least in its harmonic thought, to American Modernism (say, Copland's music of the Twenties) than to what we might expect from familiar Creston - diatonic chords leavened with major sevenths and ninths.
    5. 1.5Music A chord in which the seventh note of the scale forms an important component.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Practicing fourths and consecutive sevenths challenges the ear in ways that sixths and thirds don't, in addition to enhancing hand stability.
      • It's got a great G major ending with a couple of Gershwinian sevenths and they just adored it.
      • Bliss also incorporated Elgar's characteristic falling sevenths, by way of a recognisable tribute to his distinguished and supportive dedicatee.
      • Take the most salient feature for the listener - those Elgarian falling sevenths of the second page.
      • Heard in this context, it involves the destruction and re-incarnation of the melody; at the close it appears over and above a series of jazz pianist sevenths.
  • 2Each of seven equal parts into which something is or may be divided.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Plovdiv region alone concentrates a seventh of the arable land and 14 per cent of the labour resources of this country.
    • During his long reign he commandeered nearly a seventh of the land area.
    • He was critical of the small quotas, which would mean that one vessel could catch a seventh of the total for certain species in a single fishing trip.

Derivatives

  • seventhly

  • adverb

Rhymes

eleventh
 
 

Definition of seventh in US English:

seventh

ordinal numberˈsevənTHˈsɛvənθ
  • 1Constituting number seven in a sequence; 7th.

    his seventh goal of the season
    the seventh of June
    he was the seventh of eight children
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We begin with Caedmon, from the seventh century, but by page 6 we are already up to the sixteenth century.
    • It was Gillingham's seventh league defeat in a row, but coach John Gorman would not talk of relegation.
    • A Graham Delaney goal in the seventh minute set them on their way.
    • His seventh goal of the season required no such imagination.
    • His aim is to discover the effect of the text's message on the earliest audience at the end of the seventh century B.C.
    • True mozzarella is made from the milk of the water buffalo, imported from India to Italy in the seventh century.
    • Laws made in the seventh century could finally give way to the needs of the 21st.
    • It features a rare seventh century Buddha from India.
    • Richard Burrows gave the visitors an early lead but Danny Walters hit his seventh goal of the season to level the scores.
    • Roslea is the site of an ancient church and convent dating back to the seventh century.
    • The history of Ely Cathedral is profound - it began as a humble Benedictine abbey in the seventh century.
    • This was Hearts' seventh defeat in eight league and cup games.
    • It is believed to have originated from India as early as the seventh century, although the exact origins of chess are unknown.
    • To pass 500 in your first innings but lose, and for a seventh time in eight championship games at that, is patently demoralising.
    • The defeat, City's seventh in eight games, leaves the Minstermen just one point clear of Division Three bottom-club Exeter City.
    • Of the few poets whose work has survived from the sixth and seventh centuries, the most notable is Pindar.
    • There are six sites for development in Central Place, with the area opposite the Market Theatre constituting a seventh site.
    • Arab invaders brought Islam to Morocco during the seventh century.
    • Mayobridge spurned another goal chance on the seventh minute when a beautifully placed high ball from Benny Coulter fell to Ronan Sexton.
    • At the beginning of the seventh century St. Gobban founded a monastery at Leighlin Bridge.
    1. 1.1a seventh/one seventh Each of seven equal parts into which something is or may be divided.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • During his long reign he commandeered nearly a seventh of the land area.
      • The Plovdiv region alone concentrates a seventh of the arable land and 14 per cent of the labour resources of this country.
      • He was critical of the small quotas, which would mean that one vessel could catch a seventh of the total for certain species in a single fishing trip.
    2. 1.2 The seventh finisher or position in a race or competition.
      he finished seventh in the tournament
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He finished sixth in the 1m board event and was seventh off the 3m board.
      • In Athens, her Olympic career ended when she finished seventh in her 100m semi-final.
      • We finished seventh that season and looked a good bet for promotion the following year.
      • Double race winner Chilton was seventh having started tenth.
      • We were picked to finish seventh or eighth but we wound up fifth.
      • Chantell Stierman finished seventh in the 60 kg division weightlifting.
      • I had my best season and still only finished seventh in the points.
      • Brendan Foster set a new British record yet finished only seventh.
      • Monifeth Man finishes seventh in the Coral Cup, better than any other Irish trained runner.
      • She finished seventh in Birmingham.
      • He was expected to finish seventh in the league.
      • As a 24-year-old in 2001 he rode an excellent race to finish seventh overall, leading many to bill him as a future winner of the race.
      • In five seasons, Stewart has not finished worse than seventh in points.
      • He finished seventh in the April race in Phoenix; he'll need to do better than that on Sunday if he hopes to catch Stewart.
      • Briton Steve Ovett finished fifth and Sriram Singh was seventh in that memorable race.
      • He has not raced since finishing seventh in an allowance race at Churchill Downs on November 28, 1998.
      • She was also seventh in the 500m time trial and plans to compete in both events.
      • Sunline came out of the Pukekohe race and then finished seventh in the Hong Kong Cup.
      • However, Yorkshire came a disappointing seventh in the team competition.
      • The Jets finished seventh in defense, and none of the other three teams playing today ranked higher than 17th.
    3. 1.3 Seventhly (used to introduce a seventh point or reason).
    4. 1.4Music An interval spanning seven consecutive notes in a diatonic scale.
    5. 1.5Music The note which is higher by a seventh than the tonic of a diatonic scale or root of a chord.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The work lies far closer, at least in its harmonic thought, to American Modernism (say, Copland's music of the Twenties) than to what we might expect from familiar Creston - diatonic chords leavened with major sevenths and ninths.
    6. 1.6Music A chord in which the seventh note of the scale forms an important component.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Practicing fourths and consecutive sevenths challenges the ear in ways that sixths and thirds don't, in addition to enhancing hand stability.
      • Heard in this context, it involves the destruction and re-incarnation of the melody; at the close it appears over and above a series of jazz pianist sevenths.
      • Bliss also incorporated Elgar's characteristic falling sevenths, by way of a recognisable tribute to his distinguished and supportive dedicatee.
      • It's got a great G major ending with a couple of Gershwinian sevenths and they just adored it.
      • Take the most salient feature for the listener - those Elgarian falling sevenths of the second page.
 
 
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