fifth — ozdic

Collocations

5

ADJ.

comparable, consecutive, new, new

She won her fifth consecutive gold medal at the Olympic Games last summer.

VERB + FIFTH

begin, beginning, bought, came, get, house, kiss, place

We bought a fifth house in the countryside last summer.

FIFTH + NOUN

avenue, concert, day, dundee, festival, floor, man, page

We took the elevator to the fifth floor of the office building.

PREP.

about, from, in, in, off, on, on, out

The team was about fifth in the league standings when the season ended.

ADV.

already

She had already missed the fifth deadline, so her boss was losing patience with her.

Definitions

adj

1

The ordinal form of the number five.

On Friday, at a former Michelin factory in the north-east of the city, the finishing touches were being put in place for the fifth Dundee design festival, which opens on Monday.

noun

1

The person or thing in the fifth position.

2

The person or thing in the fifth position.

3

One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.

4

A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).

5

The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)

Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth

verb

1

To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

Another extension of strict organum is 'fifthing'. Fifthing is a note-against- note method of creating a two-part texture by improvising a second voice over the given tune, starting and ending each musical phrase at the octave and proceeding mainly in fifths above the tune at others times.

Each of these three groups contributes some special insight into the nature of fifthing and the context in which it was practiced.

2

To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.

A lisping young “Soundings,” or master’s assistant, sung out “I thecond the mothon,” instantly transferring his beer to our hero’s face. In short the resolution was thirded, fourthed, fifthed, and sixthed, all following suit with the swipes:[…]

It was then moved, seconded, thirded, fourthed, and fifthed, “that Jarman be, and is hereby hung, and ought to be kicked.”

3

To divide by five.

3/5 has been through fifthing. 2/3 has been through thirding. Therefore, 3/5 now needs thirding and 2/3 needs fifthing

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — one part in five equal parts

one-fifth

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

fifth wheel

A type of trailer hitch, which consists of a horseshoe-shaped plate on a multidirectional pivot, with a locking pin to couple with the kingpin of a truck trailer.

In most forms of semi-trailers a great deal of time is wasted in connecting the trailer to the tractor or pulling vehicle. Most of the connecting gears are some form of fifth wheel

take the fifth

To decline to comment, especially on grounds that it might be incriminating.

If you ask me who ate the last of the ice cream, I will simply take the fifth.

Example Bank

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01

On Friday, at a former Michelin factory in the north-east of the city, the finishing touches were being put in place for the fifth Dundee design festival, which opens on Monday.

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02

Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth

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03

Another extension of strict organum is 'fifthing'. Fifthing is a note-against- note method of creating a two-part texture by improvising a second voice over the given tune, starting and ending each mu

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04

Each of these three groups contributes some special insight into the nature of fifthing and the context in which it was practiced.

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05

A lisping young “Soundings,” or master’s assistant, sung out “I thecond the mothon,” instantly transferring his beer to our hero’s face. In short the resolution was thirded, fourthed, fifthed, and six

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06

[…] besides marrying Nate Archibald and living happily every after in the ivy-covered brick town house just off Fifth that she already had picked out

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, fifth is marked as informal, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.