What's the difference between sixth and thirteenth?

Sixth


Definition:

  • (a.) First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.
  • (a.) Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.
  • (n.) The next in order after the fifth.
  • (n.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
  • (2) Ventilation-perfusion lung scans and contrast ascending venography were performed on the sixth to eighth postoperative days.
  • (3) In the sixth frame of the evening he sunk a magnificent long red and careered on his way to a 131 clearance to extend his lead in the match to 9-5.
  • (4) The highest frequency occurred in the sixth decade.
  • (5) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
  • (6) That's the sixth hit allowed tonight dor Wainwright.
  • (7) A sixth of the world's oil exports passes through it every day.
  • (8) School sixth-form funding Will be cut to bring it in line with that in colleges by 2015.
  • (9) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
  • (10) 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.
  • (11) The authors discuss the appropriateness of teaching clinical pharmacology (CP) to fourth-year students, lectures in CP to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year students in accordance with the study of the main clinical specialties (therapy, surgery, pediatrics, etc.
  • (12) The phospholipid which accumulated between the sixth and twelfth culture days was composed of 21--27% disaturated phosphatidylcholines.
  • (13) The inhibitory effect of SMS on endogenous cholecystokinin release was fully operative on the sixth day of injection treatment, whereas the inhibitory effect on exogenous cholecystokinin injection significantly decreased after SMS administration for seven days, indicating desensitization of the end organ by somatostatin.
  • (14) )-sensitive mutants and have identified a sixth complementation group, line UV61.
  • (15) Residual bowel measuring 10 cm required prolonged TPN in the sixth infant and was not compatible with survival.
  • (16) He was appointed head coach of the Ligue 2 club Metz in June 2015 but left in December with them in sixth place.
  • (17) The marquee event on Thursday, considering recent off the court events, was the sixth game between the Los Angeles Clippers.
  • (18) Participants were 206 healthy, volunteer low-to-middle-income Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white (Anglo-American) families (623 individuals), each with a fifth or a sixth-grade child.
  • (19) A bout a year ago, a few months before she left sixth-form college, my youngest daughter asked cheerily: "What will you feel when you have no one left to wave goodbye to in the morning?"
  • (20) The action of the venom of the wasp Campsomeris sexmaculata on the insect CNS has been studied using the cercal nerve-giant interneuron preparation of the sixth abdominal ganglion of the cockroach.

Thirteenth


Definition:

  • (a.) Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.
  • (a.) Constituting or being one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) The next in order after the twelfth.
  • (n.) The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Otocysts of twelfth and thirteenth gestation day mouse embryos were grown in organ culture for 9 and 8 days respectively.
  • (2) First, Anastasia Myskina carried off the French Open title four weeks ago, and now Sharapova, the thirteenth seed, gloriously and unexpectedly annexes the Wimbledon crown.
  • (3) Fetal DNA was obtained from amniotic fluid fibroblasts obtained during the thirteenth week of gestation and grown in culture.
  • (4) An examination of problems seen by general practitioners reveals that overweight ranks first (prevalence, 20% of visits per year), osteoarthritis second (19% of visits per year), and hypertension third (17.5% of visits per year); diabetes, however, ranks thirteenth among problems seen during annual visits to the general practitioner.
  • (5) The flow returned to control values by the thirteenth hour after infusion.
  • (6) Recent reports demonstrate that 40% of human colon cancers and 20% of acute leukemias contain ras mutations in the twelfth or thirteenth codon that can result in amino acid substitutions at these positions in the p21 products.
  • (7) Cells were observed forming a migratory stream in the period between the thirteenth and sixteenth days of gestation, and were associated with tangentially oriented fibers.
  • (8) This is the thirteenth reported case of adenoid cystic carcinoma of the oesophagus and the first in association with craniopharyngioma.
  • (9) The thirteenth edition of the standards of the American Association of Blood Banks did not require the use of A1 red cells (RBCs) or an indirect antiglobulin test (IAT) to detect anti-A in neonatal serum, whereas the fourteenth edition mandates both.
  • (10) The thirteenth survey of training in Radiation Oncology in the United States, conducted in the first half of 1986, revealed a reduction in the number of approved programs, but little change in the number of positions offered.
  • (11) Indigenous representatives from dozens of countries are holding an event in Guatemala to participate to mark the shift to the thirteenth baktun, a new era in the Mayan calendar.
  • (12) This paper, an examination of works published during 1990, is thirteenth in a series of our annual reviews of the research involving the behavioral, nonanalgesic, effects of the endogenous opiate peptides.
  • (13) The urea levels for Caucasians were apparently normal until about the thirteenth week of gestation when it rose to above normal level and increased progressively in the third trimester.
  • (14) The pedicle weaning method described allows the replacement of the scalp on thirteenth day.
  • (15) Peritoneal dialysis was kept up to the thirteenth day.
  • (16) The dominating structures observed in the period of the thirteenth embryonic day (ED 13) are undifferentiated cells, their cytoplasm being poor in organelles but rich in ribosomes.
  • (17) By combining Prof. Van der Essen's historical data with his own heredomorphological findings, Prof. Nelis identified in the year 1930 the Dukes of Brabant from the twelfth and the thirteenth centuries, namely Godfrey II, Godfrey III and Henry I (father, son and grandson).
  • (18) The exact relationship of the thirteenth pup was undetermined.
  • (19) First signs of differentiation towards two types of epithelial cells appeared on the thirteenth day of incubation: The apical cells of the epithelial buds projected towards the lumen, and an increase in the number of Golgi regions was observed in the epithelial cells between the buds.
  • (20) Seventeen white rabbits bearing an experimental brain tumour VX-2 carcinoma were treated for five consecutive days from the eight day after tumour injection to the thirteenth day.

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