What is "eleven"

Eleven \E*lev"en\, n.

1. The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.

2. A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.

3. (Cricket & American Football) The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.

Eleven \E*lev"en\ ([-e]*l[e^]v"'n),

1. [OE. enleven, AS. endleofan, endlufon, for nleofan; akin to LG. eleve, ["o]lwe, ["o]lwen, D. elf, G. elf, eilf, OHG. einlif, Icel. ellifu, Sw. elfva, Dan. elleve, Goth. ainlif, cf. Lith. v["e]nolika; and fr. the root of E. one + (pro

2. ) a root signifying ``to be left over, remain,'' appearing in E. loan, or perh. in leave, v. t., life. See One, and cf. Twelve.] Ten and one added; as, eleven men.

c.1200, elleovene, from Old English enleofan, endleofan, literally "one left" (over ten), from Proto-Germanic *ainlif- (compare Old Saxon elleban, Old Frisian andlova, Dutch elf, Old High German einlif, German elf, Old Norse ellifu, Gothic ainlif), a compound of *ain "one" (see one) + PIE *leikw- "leave, remain" (source of Greek leipein "to leave behind;" see relinquish).\nFIREFLY: Give me a number from 1 to 10.
CHICOLINI: eleven!
FIREFLY: Right!\nViking survivors who escaped an Anglo-Saxon victory were daroþa laf "the leavings of spears," while hamora laf "the leavings of hammers" was an Old English kenning for "swords" (both from "The Battle of Brunanburgh"). Twelve reflects the same formation. Outside Germanic the only instance of this formation is in Lithuanian, which uses -lika "left over" and continues the series to 19 (vienio-lika "eleven," dvy-lika "twelve," try-lika "thirteen," keturio-lika "fourteen," etc.). Meaning "a team or side" in cricket or football is from 1743.

n. 1 (context cricket English) A cricket team of eleven players. 2 (context football English) A football team of eleven players. 3 (context Internet slang sarcastic English) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, imitating n00bs who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points. num. The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.

1. adj. being one more than ten [syn: 11, xi]

2. n. the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one [syn: 11, XI]

3. a team that plays football [syn: football team]

Eleven is Sugarcult's debut album. It was released as a demo in 1997 and then re-released in 1999.

Some of the tracks from this album are from Five, which had very few copies in circulation.
The original CDs of Eleven had some burning errors.

Eleven (also known as Ele∀en) is a music album by the Finnish band 22-Pistepirkko. It was released in 1998.

Eleven is the eleventh album by Japanese hard rock band B'z, released on December 6, 2000. The catalogue code for this album is BMCR-7046. The album sold only 756,910 copies in its first week, becoming the first full-length studio album not to break the million mark in its first week since Risky. However, the album managed to sell over 1,132,180 copies.

Eleven was a alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1990 by Alain Johannes (vocals, guitar, sitar, horns), Natasha Shneider (vocals, keyboards, bass), and Jack Irons (drums).

Eleven is a 2006 novel by David Llewellyn and published by Seren Press.

Eleven is unusual in that it is written entirely in the form of emails, drawing to a certain extent upon the tradition of epistolary novels. The action of the novel is limited to a single day, between the hours of 9am and 5pm.

Eleven (stylised as ELEVEN) is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by Network Ten on 11 January 2011 It offers catch-up and encore programming. Eleven is also the home of Australia’s longest running drama series, Neighbours.

Eleven is a compilation album by German rock group Reamonn. It was released on August 27, 2010 through Island Records/ Universal Music Group. The album was certified Gold in Germany in 2011, and has charted in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Greece.

Eleven is the eleventh studio album (9 in English, 2 in French) released by Australian singer and songwriter Tina Arena. The album was released in Australia on 30 October 2015. The first single, "I Want to Love You" was released on 4 September 2015. Arena described Eleven as a "personal album" that was "joyous to make". Arena hinted at a tour, saying "I'm looking forward to playing the songs for you live soon". This was further confirmed in a radio interview on 3AW on 1 September when Arena stated she would be on the road February–March 2016.

Eleven is the eleventh studio album by American country music singer Martina McBride, released on October 11, 2011, through Republic Nashville. The title of the album was inspired by the fact that it is McBride's eleventh album, it has eleven tracks and its release date. A deluxe edition of the album was also made available exclusively at Target stores. It featured slightly different cover art, with a blue fade at the bottom instead of white, and included four bonus tracks, as well as music videos for "Teenage Daughters" and "I'm Gonna Love You Through It". As of March 2012 the album has sold over 150,000 copies in the US. On July 3, 2012 the four Deluxe Bonus Tracks were released on iTunes as individual singles.

Eleven (formerly Eleven Film) is a British Television Production company founded in 2006 by Jamie Campbell and Joel Wilson. Eleven produces scripted and non-scripted content for the UK and international markets.

Eleven's recent output includes the critically acclaimed, multi-award nominated series Glue, an eight-part mystery drama for E4 written by double- BAFTA winner Jack Thorne and starring Yasmin Paige, Billy Howle, Callum Turner, Charlotte Spencer and Jordan Stephens, The Enfield Haunting, a drama starring Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson and Matthew Macfadyen for Sky Living, The Secret Life of the Pub, a cutting-edge documentary for Channel 4, and Rotters, a comedy for Sky Arts.

In 2014 the Channel 4 Growth Fund took a minority stake in Eleven, making it the first drama production company to benefit from their £20m fund. Eleven has projects in development for all of the major UK broadcasters as well as a 10 part drama series in development with Fox in the U.S.