(a.) Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.
(a.) Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.
(n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
(2) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
(3) The fifth patient recovered after 28 days of parenteral AMB.
(4) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
(5) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
(6) The fifth plasmid contains sequences which are repeated in the yeast genome, but it is not known whether any or all of the ribosomal protein gene on this clone contains repetitive DNA.
(7) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
(8) In the fifth case the vein was too narrow to allow catheterization.
(9) John Carver witnessed signs of much-needed improvement from the visitors in a purposeful spell either side of the interval but it was not enough to prevent a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
(10) French authors call it "the syndrome of the fifth day".
(11) Volumes were angiographically determined and correlated with left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) both at rest and during the fifth minute of 30% sustained handgrip (HNG).
(12) The commonly used line-to-line reaming technique was compared to an underreaming technique using both four-fifths and one-third porous-coated anatomic medullary locking (AML) implants.
(13) They are related as fourth cousins once-removed and fifth cousins in multiple ways through the six nearest common ancestors of all four parents.
(14) Ali!” Vanessa teaches fifth grade, and said many of her students wrote papers and made projects about Ali in February, for Black History Month.
(15) The involvement of one of South Korea’s most powerful men has rocked the country’s business world, as it signalled that prosecutors were prepared to use the full force of the law against the head of a company whose revenues are equivalent to a fifth of the country’s GDP.
(16) In addition to generating a chemotactic factor, plasmin destroys the complement-associated chemotactic factor that is a trimolecular complex consisting of the fifth (C'5), sixth (C'6), and seventh (C'7) components of complement.
(17) sp., described from wild-caught and laboratory-reared females, males, nymphs, and larvae parasitizing the Humboldt Penguin, Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, is the fifth species of the Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis group to be recognized in the Neotropical Region.
(18) At the end of the fifth year, the rate was almost identical in both groups (35.3 and 35.6%, respectively).
(19) A popular strain of foreign policy thought has long held that the US should be guided primarily by self-interest rather than human rights concerns: hence, since the US wants its Fifth Fleet to remain in Bahrain and believes ( with good reason ) that these dictators will serve US interests far better than if popular will in these countries prevails, it is right to prop up these autocrats.
(20) In comparison gradients of transcript levels are more shallow in either lytically or persistently infected cultured cells, where the transcripts of the fifth MV gene are only about five times less abundant than those of the first.
Firth
Definition:
(n.) An arm of the sea; a frith.
Example Sentences:
(1) AP Magic in the Moonlight Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight Woody Allen remains a hero at Cannes, an arena largely untroubled by accusation and counter-accusation surrounding his private life.
(2) On the banks of the Firth of Forth, the Longannet power station dominates the wintry horizon, a massive box in the shadow of its skyscraper chimney stack.
(3) However, one of the channel's British reporters, Sara Firth, appeared to go off message with a series of disparaging tweets in which she said the channel's reporters were engaged in lies.
(4) The kidney taken from a rat rendered nephrotic by exposure to puromycin aminonucleoside retains sodium abnormally when perfused in isolation and has an abnormally low vascular resistance (J. D. Firth et al., Clin.
(5) In a letter to Rochester voters, David Cameron said the two candidates were Anna Firth and Kelly Tolhurst, two local councillors.
(6) Magic in the Moonlight, which stars Colin Firth, Stone and Jackie Weaver, is released on 25 July in the US, on 28 August in Australia and 19 September in the UK.
(7) Changes in abundance at haul-out sites were followed, and data on the number of deaths collected, to describe the pattern and extent of mortality resulting from the 1988 phocine distemper virus outbreak in the Moray Firth common seal population.
(8) Rebecca Howett, 27, Edinburgh, Scotland Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rebecca Howett, in the distance, wades into the water at Talisker Bay, Skye My usual swimming spot is Portobello beach , a long sandy beach on the Firth of Forth, a few miles east of Edinburgh, where a group of swimmers called the Wild Ones meet every Sunday morning.
(9) Yes, yes, Richard Gere in American Gigolo, Cary Grant in North by Northwest, Steve McQueen in Bullitt, Colin Firth and Daniel Craig in whatever, blah blah freaking blah.
(10) Darron Burness, head of the AA's flood rescue team, said areas most likely to be affected stretched from the Firth of Forth and down the east coast of England to Kent.
(11) Many TV writers have also added their names, including Andrew Davies – who wrote the Colin Firth adaptation of Pride and Prejudice for the BBC – and Jimmy McGovern, whose latest series Banished aired recently on BBC2.
(12) It was Chatsworth House, I remind Cooper, that served as Pemberley in that scene in Pride and Prejudice where Firth emerges from the lake, wet shirt clinging to his chest, and turns the knees of Jennifer Ehle's Elizabeth Bennet to jelly.
(13) Together, the books sold 15m copies in 40 countries and spawned two Hollywood films starring Renée Zellweger as Bridget and Colin Firth and Hugh Grant as her warring paramours.
(14) The campaign has attracted a coalition of public figures and companies , from Tottenham Hotspur, energy company EDF, the Guardian and online supermarket Ocado to chef Delia Smith, DJ Sara Cox, film stars Colin Firth and Samantha Morton, author Ian McEwan, former London mayor Ken Livingstone and economist Nicholas Stern.
(15) Magic in the Moonlight (25 July) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The latest from Woody Allen is something of a small gem, with Colin Firth and Emma Stone sauntering through a 1930s-era Côte d'Azur, saying witty things about magic and love and faith.
(16) Colin Firth will star in a thriller set in the morally murky world of military drones for the Ender's Game director, Gavin Hood, reports Screen .
(17) Whether the delay will result in scheduling issues for the in-demand Colin Firth is unclear, but he is expected to star alongside Renée Zellweger and Grant.
(18) A toast, marmalade optional, to Colin Firth, who has quit a film version of Paddington with a grace befitting this most cordial of bears.
(19) "I think it's a bit arrogant to say we're creating a bit of South Ken here," says Firth.
(20) Fielding has admitted that the original source for the plot came from Austen, as did the on-page and on-screen casting of "successful barrister Mark Darcy" (played by Colin Firth in both Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones ).