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sixfold
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB increase ▪ Mrs Whitehouse reports that the use of the F-word on television has increased sixfold in 1991. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The plant has increased its production sixfold . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Coal prices ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sixfold \Six"fold`\, a. [AS. sixfealand.] Six times repeated; six times as much or as many.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sixfeald ; see six + -fold . Similar formation in Danish sexfold , Dutch zes-voudig ; German sechsfältig , Swedish sexfaldig .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having six component parts. adv. times six, multiplied by six.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having six units or components [syn: sextuple ] adv. by a factor of six; "the population of this town increased sixfold when gold was found in the surrounding hills" [syn: six times ]
Usage examples of sixfold.
He had no need of a wife, particularly not one who called him a fivefold fool and made him a sixfold fool by sending him on to such a cell without even a kiss.
I again asked Congress to provide funds to build or modernize five thousand schools and to approve a sixfold increase in the number of college scholarships for students who would commit to teaching in underserved areas.
I again asked Congress to provide funds to build or modernize five thousand schools and to approve a sixfold increase in the number of college scholarships for students who would commit to teaching in underserved areas.
And at that, using so much capacity for so long on a single task brought the chance of a sixfold simultaneous error to the thirty per cent level, so there was one chance in three that when they built the final version and switched it on something would have gone irremediably wrong.
The market value of their home had multiplied threefold or so, but because of the leverage supplied by their mortgage loan -- an effect exactly like that of buying stocks or commodity futures on margin -- they had more than sixfolded the value of their own capital invested in the venture.
Since the real assets of the company in four years had increased in value sixfold to more than $200 million, not to mention the tremendous profits that were just beginning to roll in, Ripley Forte computed that he had been diddled out of a round $100 million.