six

名词 n. 数词 num.
中文释义
发音 sĭks

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A group or set with six elements.
  2. The digit or figure 6.
    — how about 100 then? for 100, I wanted to pay homage to the people who have been using seximal this entire time. specifically, I used the word for six sixes found in the Ndom language, "nif".
  3. A playing card featuring six pips.
  4. A person who is six years old.
    — The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
  5. Six o'clock.
    — In Austria the prisoners rise at five, [...]. There are morning prayers at a quarter to six, after which the prisoners are conducted to work.
  6. Rear, behind (rear side of something). slang
    — cover my six
  7. An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
    — His century featured 12 sixes.
  8. A touchdown.
  9. A bathroom or toilet. North-Wales
  10. Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel. obsolete
数词 num.
  1. A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This number of dots: (••••••).
    — Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters. In Niger, at least six people are now feared dead, local media reported.

词形变化

sixes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
pick six at sixes and sevens deep six hit someone for six long six short six six feet under
相关词
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词源

词源 1
PIE word
*swéḱs
From Middle English six, from Old English six, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx), Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ). Doublet of sice. Toilet sense predates military usage.
词源 2
PIE word
*swéḱs
From Middle English six, from Old English six, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx), Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ). Doublet of sice. Toilet sense predates military usage.
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