单词 | ninety |
释义 | ninety (once / 834 pages) nadj Ninety is a number that's ten more than eighty and ten less than a hundred. Ninety is a pretty big number, but there's not much else to say about it. It's one of those numbers like "sixty" or "seventy" that is formed by attaching a number in the range of 1-9 and "ty" to represent values in the tens place starting with that number. And if you were alive during the nineties (the years from 1990-1999), you probably watched a lot of "Seinfeld" and "Friends." WORD FAMILYninety: nineties, ninetieth+/nineties: mid-nineties/ninetieth: ninetieths USAGE EXAMPLESNinety days after diagnosis, 51 percent reported fatigue, 32 percent cough, and 28 percent shortness of breath. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) And, in the nineties, Nike faced a boycott over its reliance on sweatshop labor. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Roger grew up in South Florida, and in the nineties he was a running back for St. Thomas. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1n the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine Syn|Hyper 90, XC large integer an integer equal to or greater than ten 2adj being ten more than eighty Syn 90, xc cardinal being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order |
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