(n.) The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) In studies of calcium metabolism in 13 unselected patients with untreated sarcoidosis all were normocalcaemic but five had hypercalcuria.
(3) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(4) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(5) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(6) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
(7) This time is approximately six months for the neuroleptics given orally, one month for antidepressants, and five and a half half-lives for benzodiazepines.
(8) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(9) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(10) Five of the nine normal livers had peribiliary glands that showed HLA-DR.
(11) A total of five men appeared at a Moscow courtroom on Sunday.
(12) The concentrations of five normally occurring protease inhibitors in serum and synovial fluid were compared in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthrosis, and normal controls.
(13) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
(14) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
(15) In group V, five cases of Taenia saginata parasitosis were studied showing a weak positive reading.
(16) In vivo studies were performed in five healthy subjects for at least 3 h after ingestion of radiolabeled meals.
(17) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(18) Mild swallowing difficulties occurred in 18 patients (39%), moderate dysfunction in 23 (50%), and severe dysfunction in five (11%).
(19) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
(20) Four of the five ectopic pregnancies occurred in patients with previously documented tubal pathology.
Fiver
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Muscle biopsy showed rather small muscle fivers with variations in size and proliferation of connective tissue.
(2) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(3) Nevertheless, she has set ATM providers a target of increasing the amount of fivers in machines to 1.2% during 2012.
(4) The magazine’s editor, Alan Harvey, told the Guardian: “He sent us a fiver, which would have been enough for about five issues, but I’ve never met him.
(5) Then, with an upswing, as though he'd just found a fiver in the pocket of his jacket, he added: "That cost less than a phone call, and yet it told me so much more."
(6) The only way I could do it was because I came from a fucked-up situation, so I knew how to survive on a fiver – I tasted real struggle.
(7) But the filthy fiver, says Dr Ron Cutler, who led the study, could be the spark that lights the fire of an epidemic.
(8) So what are the facts and falsehoods about our new fivers?
(9) My legs didn’t stop shaking, I did some jokes, the audience laughed, and the promoter gave me a fiver I felt like I’d walked on the moon.
(10) My dad was quite encouraging about my music career and well chuffed that I was earning a fiver a week performing at Hayling Island Sunshine holiday Camp, but that all changed when I joined the band.
(11) Cash machine operators dislike fivers because they take up a lot of space relative to their value, meaning that busy machines are likely to run out sooner.
(12) FIVER LETTERS "Thank you for featuring our Wayne Thorne's revival from a coma in yesterday's Fiver.
(13) Five's family of channels, including satellite stations such as Five US and Fiver, maintained an 8.9% share of the TV ad market in the first six months of 2008, RTL said.
(14) Likewise, if you sign up to the O Fiverão , you will also receive The Fiver.
(15) Fatty fivers and the Indian Mutiny Not since the Indian Mutiny of 1857 has there been as much fuss about tallow.
(16) KateModern won the innovation award at this year's Broadcasting Press Guild awards, and its follow-up, Sofia's Diary, was acquired by Channel Five to run on its rebranded digital channel, Fiver.
(17) SIGN UP TO THE FIVER (AND O FIVERÃO) Want your very own copy of our free tea-timely(ish) email sent direct to your inbox?
(18) Robinson has witnessed many banknote landmarks, including the last issue of the white "fiver" before a move to colour in the 1950s, the first portrayal of a monarch in 1960, when the Queen appeared on a new £1 note, and the introduction of historical figures such as William Shakespeare in the 1970s.
(19) What is evident is that the new notes are far more durable than existing fivers, few of which ever see their own fifth birthday.
(20) "Can I just say how impressed I am that yesterday's email arrived early at 4.30pm despite the whole of Kings Place [where Big Office is based – Fiver Ed] being evacuated for the very same fire alarm you mention at the end?