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# sixth

«sixth» in Mova's school dictionary: **number 6 in order, after the fifth** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective, noun (sixth, sixths)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sixth means number 6 in order, after the fifth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixth/#m1)

2) A sixth is one of six equal parts of a whole, written 1/6. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixth/#m2)

3) A sixth sense is a feeling that you know something without seeing or hearing it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixth/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: an order word (6th grade) or a fraction: a sixth of 30 is 5. Everyday: sixth grade, sixth form (in the UK, the last two years of school), sixth sense.

### examples

- He is in the sixth grade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixth/#x1)
- A sixth of 30 is 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixth/#x2)
- She ate one sixth of the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixth/#x3)
- On the sixth day he had 18 coins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixth/#x4)
- A die has numbers from one to six, so each side is one sixth of the chances. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixth/#x5)
- Our team came sixth in the league. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixth/#x6)
- She had a sixth sense that something was wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixth/#x7)
- The sixth time the King exclaimed, ‘It is amazing!’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixth/#x8)

### note

Written 6th. As a fraction, divide by 6; as order, it points to one item. Trap: none. Hard to say: «siksth».

### In the corpora

- [Mia's sofa fitted five, and the sixth kid always ended up on the floor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/14/)
- [On the Moon you would weigh about one sixth of your weight on Earth, and on Jupiter more than twice as much.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/10/)
- [Gravity on the Moon is about one sixth of the Earth's, so you would feel six times lighter there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/14/)
- [The Moon's gravity is about one sixth of the Earth's gravity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/10-reasoning-about-space/10/)
- [And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sixth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.