(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.
Vespers
Definition:
(n.) One of the little hours of the Breviary.
(n.) The evening song or service.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lumbosacral and associated leg pain and paresthesias arousing patients from a sound sleep, or Vesper's curse, has been previously reported.
(2) Why monteverdi wrote the vespers of the holy virgin when he wrote them, how the reformation affected music, how the first and second world war affected both classical music and art music and jazz and popular music - it’s an incredible project.” Fred Deakin for Modulations Photograph: Supplied Jones is also looking forward to the Modulations program, curated by Modular’s Steve Pavlovic and headlined by the Pet Shop Boys.
(3) The motor equivalent of Vesper's curse was evaluated by electromography, evoked potentials, CAT scan, and myelography.
(4) On the contrary, laboratory mice and cricetids failed to show Hantavirus infection while the wild vesper mouse Calomys musculinus (the main Junin virus reservoir) showed a prevalence of 23.5%.
(5) Hume's first act was to lead the monks of Ampleforth to Westminster Abbey to sing vespers there for the first time since the Reformation.
(6) Cameron was likened to a Vesper Martini, a Mercedes, Dick Dastardly and Hugh Grant.
(7) A mycobacterial antigens circadian variation in correlation with vesperal fever in tuberculous patients was not revealed.
(8) But the ravages of deindustrialisation only encouraged Nyman to hook up with Christopher Monks, artistic director of the Armonico Consort – a polyphonic choral group – to bring Hillfields and Monteverdi together: this month, children from Frederick Bird will be involved in a project called Monteverdi's Flying Circus, singing the Ave Maris Stella from the Italian master's 1610 Vespers.
(9) While St John Paul II and Benedict XVI celebrated mass in Yankee stadium during their New York visits, Francis will celebrate mass for a slightly smaller crowd in Madison Square Garden, and preside over a vespers service at the newly spruced-up St Patrick’s Cathedral.
(10) With apologies to Vesper Lynd , if the only thing left of The Living Daylights was Maryam d'Abo's smile and the taut early sequence that culminates with Timothy Dalton's 007 deliberately missing a shot at cellist turned sniper Kara Milovy , it would still be my favourite Bond film.
(11) 3) non offset venous insufficiency with frequent, if not continuous, vesperal edema.
(12) "Vesperal" urinary cortisol measured on a collected urine sample between 20 h and 24 h was higher in pregnant women since the beginning of pregnancy as compared to that of non pregnant women.
(13) A 23-year-old male Pondichery native consulted for vesperal dispnoea.