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# sixty

«sixty» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 60, which is six tens** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

number (sixty)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sixty is the number 60, which is six tens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#m1)

2) An hour has 60 minutes and a minute has 60 seconds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a number; 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute, so time problems often hide 60. Everyday: ages, prices, speed limits («sixty miles an hour»).

### examples

- There are sixty minutes in an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x1)
- Sixty people came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x2)
- A ticket costs sixty cents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x3)
- What is sixty divided by five? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x4)
- A minute has sixty seconds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x5)
- Grandma turned sixty last week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x6)
- The car was going sixty kilometers an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x7)
- “I never run less than sixty miles,” Cael replied sullenly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x8)

### note

A number word; read it as 60. Hours and minutes hide the 60. Trap: do not confuse sixty (60) with sixteen (16). Trap: time is not base ten — 1 hour 30 minutes is 90 minutes, not 130.

### Trees and pragmatics

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