Crossword clues for fifth
fifth
- "The ____ Musketeer"
- Whiskey buy
- Whiskey bottle size
- Whiskey bottle purchase
- Whiskey bottle capacity
- Take the ___ (refuse to answer)
- Scotch purchase
- Scotch buy
- Saks __ Avenue
- President Monroe's position
- Plead the ... Amendment
- One ___ (20 percent)
- New York City's ___ Avenue
- Monroe's place among presidents
- Manhattan avenue known for its Museum Mile
- Fourth, ..., sixth
- Fashionable New York avenue
- Elegant Manhattan avenue
- Easter Parade avenue
- D-to-A interval
- Common liquor amount
- Bourbon bottle
- Between fourth and sixth
- Beethoven's famed symphony
- Beethoven masterpiece, familiarly, with "The"
- Amendment that may be pled
- Amendment "taken" by an uncooperative witness
- After fourth
- A to E, to musicians
- A felon might take it
- 80% of a quart
- (Of a monarch) V
- ____ Business, by R. Davies
- A to E, musically speaking
- It may be taken in court, with "the"
- Award place for a green ribbon
- Amendment that prevents being subjected to double jeopardy
- Liquor bottle size
- 20%
- Bottle of whiskey
- Liquor purchase
- With 45-Down, subversive groups ... or what the answers in the circled squares comprise?
- Saks ___ Avenue
- Position five in a countable series of things
- The musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it
- Bottle size
- With 45-Down, subversive groups ... or what the answers in the shaded squares comprise?
- Musical interval
- Ordinal number
- Some relief if there's a musical interval
- Dominant wolf, if threatening packs
- It's taken in court
- Gallon fraction
- Alcohol measure
- Whiskey purchase
- A bit less than a quart
- Twenty percent
- Old whiskey bottle size
- Liquor-bottle size
- Liquor store purchase
- Liquor quantity
- Liquor bottle
- It may be taken in court (with "the")
- Bourbon buy
- Booze buy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fifth \Fifth\, a. [OE. fifte, fifthe, AS. f[=i]fta. See Five.]
Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.
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Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.
Fifth monarchy men (Hist.), a fanatical sect in England, of the time of the commonwealth, who maintained that there would be a fifth universal monarchy, during which Christ would reign on earth a thousand years.
Fifth wheel, a horizontal wheel or segment above the fore axle of a carriage and beneath the body, forming an extended support to prevent careening.
Fifth \Fifth\, n.
The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.
(Mus.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, fift, from Old English fifta "fifth," from fif "five" (see five) + -ta (see -th (1)). Normal development would have yielded fift; altered 14c. by influence of fourth. Compare Old Frisian fifta, Old Saxon fifto, Old Norse fimmti, Dutch vijfde, Old High German fimfto, German fünfte, Gothic fimfta.\n
\nNoun meaning "fifth part of a gallon of liquor" is first recorded 1938, American English; the noun in the music sense is from 1590s. Fifth Avenue (in New York City) has been used figuratively for "elegance, taste" since at least 1858. Fifth wheel "superfluous person or thing" attested from 1630s. It also was the name of a useful device, "wheel-plate or circle iron of a carriage" placed on the forward axle for support and to facilitate turning (1825). And the phrase sometimes is turned on its head and given a positive sense of "that which a prudent driver ought to take with him in case one of the others should break" (1817). Fifth-monarchy-man, 17c. for "anarchist zealot," is a reference to Dan. ii:44.
Wiktionary
a. The ordinal form of the number five. n. 1 The person or thing in the fifth position. 2 One of five equal parts of a whole. 3 The fifth gear of an engine. 4 A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters. 5 The musical interval between one note and another five tones higher. 6 The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
WordNet
n. a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
position five in a countable series of things; "he was fifth out of several hundred runners"
a fifth part [syn: one-fifth, fifth part, twenty percent]
the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it
adj. coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position [syn: 5th]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five.
Fifth or The Fifth may refer to:
- Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth"
- Fifth column, a political term
- Fifth disease, a contagious rash that spreads in school-aged children
- Fifth force, a proposed force of nature in addition to the four known fundamental forces
- Fifth (Stargate), a robotic character in the television series Stargate SG-1
- Fifth (unit), a unit of volume used for distilled beverages in the U.S.
- Fifth-generation programming language
- The fifth in a series, or four after the first: see ordinal numbers (linguistics)
- 1st Battalion 5th Marines
- A quintile, or 20%
- A fraction, such as 1/5
- The royal fifth, (Spanish and Portuguese) an old royal tax of 20%
Fifth (the title is Fifth while the front cover shows the number 5), is the fifth studio album by the Canterbury associated band Soft Machine, released in 1972.
A fifth is a unit of volume formerly used for distilled beverages in the United States, equal to one fifth of a US liquid gallon, quart, or 25 US fluid ounces (757.08 ml); it has been superseded by the metric bottle size of 750 ml, which is the standard capacity of wine bottles world-wide and is approximately 1 % smaller.
Fifth is the fifth studio album by American indie band The Autumn Defense. It was released in January 2014 under Yep Roc Records.
In music, the fifth factor of a chord is the note or pitch five scale degrees above the root or tonal center. When the fifth is the bass note, or lowest note, of the expressed chord, the chord is in second inversion .
Conventionally, the fifth is second in importance to the root, with second inversion being the strongest and the fifth perfect in all primary triads (I, IV, V and i, iv, v). In jazz chords and theory however, the fifth is often omitted, or assumed, in preference for the chord quality determining third and chord extensions and additions.
The fifth in a major and minor chord is perfect (G in C). When the fifth of a major chord is raised it is an augmented chord (G in C) . When the fifth of a minor chord is lowered it is a diminished chord (G in C) .
The open fifth and power chord consists of only the root, fifth and their octave doublings.
Usage examples of "fifth".
The preparations for the abjuration will be the same as were explained in the fourth and fifth methods of concluding a process on behalf of the faith.
By the fifth, she no longer needed to stroke her throbbing, abraded clit.
On the fifth day the line of demarcation extended to the spine of the scapula, laying bare the bone and exposing the acromion process and involving the pectoral muscles.
And in the Fifth Symphony, one of those in which he called for no vocal performers, he nevertheless managed to vary and expand the conventional suite by preceding the first allegro with a march, and separating and relieving the gargantuan scherzo and rondo with an adagietto for strings alone.
NEW ORLEANSThe American Tonsil, Adenoid and Vas Deferens Society is holding their fifth annual convention this week in the Old Royal Maison New Orleans.
An order enjoining certain steam railroads from discriminating against an electric railroad by denying it reciprocal switching privileges did not violate the Fifth Amendment even though its practical effect was to admit the electric road to a part of the business being adequately handled by the steam roads.
The final visa approval had come through only the day before, the fifth of June, and just hours later Mondschein had boarded the Aero Alvarado flight that would take him in a single soaring supersonic arc nonstop from Zurich to his long-lost homeland on the west coast of South America.
Our patience was rewarded on the fifth night when Capers hooked a small amberjack and brought it on board with a shout.
The Port Dutch was a midtown hotel for millionaires of all kindsoil sheiks, arbitrageurs, rock legends, British royalsand its suites, two per floor facing Central Park across Fifth Avenue, almost always repaid a drop-in visit during the dinner hour.
Eumelus, Atrides Menelaus the famous spearman next and Meriones drew the fourth starting-lane and Tydides Diomedes drew the fifth and last, the best of them all by far at driving battle-teams.
And keep them hooded, and their Churches, Like hawks from baiting on their perches, 1410 That, when the blessed time shall come Of quitting BABYLON and ROME, They may be ready to restore Their own Fifth Monarchy once more.
Max Becker rode the airlift up to the fifth floor of the Pentagon, walked rapidly past a row of holographs of former Chiefs of Staff, and finally came to the office he sought.
The fifth reason is because it is befitting the universal salvation of the entire world.
Number 47 was on the fifth floor, a commonplace room with an iron bed, a washbasin, a bidet, a dilapidated armchair, and a chest of drawers.
This blemish consisted of a marked flatting of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh notes of the refrain or chorus of the piece.