Nine

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  • noun. The cardinal number equal to 8 + 1.
  • noun. The ninth in a set or sequence.
  • noun. Something having nine parts, units, or members.
  • noun. A playing card marked with nine pips.
  • noun. A set of nine persons or things, especially.
  • noun. The nine players on a side, or the whole team.
  • noun. The nine Muses.
  • noun. A size, as in clothing or shoes, designated as nine.
  • noun. The first or second 9 holes of an 18-hole golf course.
  • idiom. (to the nines) To the highest degree.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • One more than eight, or one less than ten; thrice three: a cardinal numeral.
  • noun. The number consisting of the sum of one and eight; the number less by unity than ten; three times three.
  • noun. A symbol representing nine units, as 9, or IX, or ix.
  • noun. The body of players, nine in number, composing one side in a game of base-ball.
  • noun. A playing-card with nine spots or pips on it.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Eight and one more; one less than ten.
  • adjective. See Morris.
  • adjective. a circle so related to any given triangle as to pass through the three points in which the perpendiculars from the angles of the triangle upon the opposite sides (or the sides produced) meet the sides. It also passes through the three middle points of the sides of the triangle and through the three middle points of those parts of the perpendiculars that are between their common point of meeting and the angles of the triangle. The circle is hence called the nine points circle or six points circle.
  • noun. The number greater than eight by a unit; nine units or objects.
  • noun. A symbol representing nine units, as 9 or ix.
  • noun. A group of nine people.
  • noun. the nine Muses.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A numerical value equal to 9; the number occurring after eight and before ten.
  • noun. Describing a set or group with nine components.
  • noun. The digit or figure 9.
  • noun. A playing card with nine pips.
  • noun. A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
  • noun. A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. one of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face
  • noun. the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
  • noun. a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
  • adjective. denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten
  • Word Usage
    "But 'tain't too late to mend, an' if a stitch in time _does_ save nine, it's better to take the _nine_ stitches than to wait till they are ninety times nine."
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    cardinal  
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    Aline  Cline  Combine  Dine  Heine  
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    10  8  eight  ten  
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