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单词 fifth
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fifth

/fɪfθ /
ordinal number
1Constituting number five in a sequence; 5th: the fifth century bc her mother had just given birth to another child, her fifth the world’s fifth-largest oil exporter the fifth of November...
  • They simply ran out of steam in the second half to slump to their fifth defeat out of five, a record that consigns them to the wooden spoon, their first wooden spoon in the competition since 2002.
  • The fifth day of a five day forecast is accurate 20% of the time and these guys are gonna tell me what the weather will be like a hundred years from now?
  • It was a subtle touch, one I didn't notice until the opening sequence of the fifth episode - and by then it was too late.
1.1The fifth finisher or position in a race or competition: he finished fifth...
  • He finished the race in fifth place having started from 16th position on the grid.
  • Her best this season in four races was a fifth place in Germany which left her in seventh place overall in the rankings.
  • At the Leinster Schools held in Dublin, Cheryl Nolan won gold in the junior 1,500m and Sinead Kelly competing in the same race finished a credible fifth place.
1.2(In some vehicles) the fifth (and typically highest) in a sequence of gears: in my panic I changed from third to fifth...
  • These figures are achieved high in the rev range, and with a fairly relaxed fifth gear a quick shift back to fourth is needed for quick overtaking.
  • Brett Sales yanked the Cavalier's gear down from fifth into fourth to overtake the van in front of him before he reached the next roundabout.
  • Despite being geared to reach its top speed in the fifth of its seven gears, you can never quite escape the V10's voice.
1.3chiefly British The fifth form of a school or college.In the Construction Studies room fifth and sixth class primary school visitors will be able to participate in a wood class helped by the present first years....
  • When the fun was over, the children thanked Peter Millen and fifth class teacher Maria Walsh for organising the event for them.
1.4Fifthly (used to introduce a fifth point or reason): fourth, it can aid the process of life review, and fifth, it is an enjoyable and stimulating experience
1.5 Music An interval spanning five consecutive notes in a diatonic scale, in particular (also perfect fifth) an interval of three tones and a semitone (e.g. C to G): strings tuned a fifth apart...
  • Open fifths, fourths and tritones, modality and whole-tone scales abound.
  • The strings of a four-string cello are usually tuned in fifths.
  • And several times in the book a diminished fifth rather than an augmented fourth is called a tritone.
1.6 Music The note which is higher by a fifth than the root of a diatonic scale.The third of a triad may be emphasized above its root or fifth to create a ‘sweeter’ quality in a dolce passage....
  • The crisp phrases of the robust seventeen-bar ground, with its harmonically stable fourths and fifths and harmonious consort of bass and triadic chords, clearly assert the traditional lineaments of the form.
  • The final movement is based on chords of parallel fifths.
1.7US informal A fifth of a gallon, as a measure of alcoholic drink, or a bottle of this capacity: a fifth of whisky...
  • The first thing he did was stop in a liquor store to buy a fifth of rye whiskey.
  • Witnesses later confirmed Bill stopped at the liquor store at the county line and downed a fifth of whiskey before driving into town.
  • I guess shelter should be my first priority, and then about a fifth of some liquor that tastes about as nasty as it smells.
2Each of five equal parts into which something is or may be divided.Because measures of skinfold thickness varied significantly by sex we divided the distribution into fifths for men and women and used these in the analyses....
  • Birth weight for gestational age, divided into fifths, showed an association with later marital status for men but not women.
  • We divided participants into fifths according to their intake of each type of fat.

Phrases

take (or plead) the Fifth

Derivatives

fifthly

/ˈfɪfθli / adverb ...
  • And, fifthly, policy-making is not an event but is ‘ethereal, diffuse, haphazard and somewhat volatile.’
  • And that, fifthly and finally, is exactly the chief offering that monastics can make to the wider world.
  • But then fifthly, this righteousness is freely given but was not bought cheaply.
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