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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nine
number
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clock strikes eight/nine etc (=makes eight/nine etc sounds according to the hour)
▪ In the distance I heard a church clock strike eleven.
nine out of ten/three out of four etc
▪ Nine out of ten students pass the test first time.
nine to five
▪ She didn’t like working nine to five.
the clock says eight/nine etc (=shows a particular time)
▪ The clock said five so I went back to sleep.
working nine to five
▪ She didn’t like working nine to five.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stitch in time (saves nine)
be on cloud nine
▪ Adam was on cloud nine after the birth of his son.
▪ I recognised it right away, and I was on Cloud Nine.
five/three/nine etc years to the day
▪ It's three years to the day since Tony Alliss died from gunshot wounds.
nine times out of ten/99 times out of 100 etc
on the stroke of seven/nine etc
▪ Arthur would be gone on the stroke of nine, and Ann too, if it was possible.
possession is nine-tenths of the law
the whole nine yards
▪ We're going to hike there, sleep outside, cook our food on the campfire - the whole nine yards.
▪ The white dresses, the long white gloves, the limos, the whole nine yards.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nine

nine \nine\ (n[imac]n), a. [OE. nine, nihen, AS. nigon, nigan; akin to D. & LG. negen, OS. & OFries. nigun, OHG. niun, G. neun, Icel. n[=i]u, sw. nio, Dan. ni, Goth. niun, Ir. & Gael. naoi, W. naw, L. novem, Gr. 'enne`a, Skr. navan; of unknown origin. [root]307. Cf. Novembeer.] Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles.

Nine men's morris. See Morris.

Nine points circle (Geom.), 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nine

Old English nigen, from Proto-Germanic *niwun (cognates: Old Saxon nigun, Old Frisian niugun, Old Norse niu, Swedish nio, Middle Dutch neghen, Dutch negen, Old High German niun, German neun, Gothic niun "nine"), from PIE newn "nine" (cognates: Sanskrit nava, Avestan nava, Greek ennea, Albanian nende, Latin novem (with change of -n- to -m- by analogy of septem, decem), Lithuanian devnyi, Old Church Slavonic deveti (the Balto-Slavic forms by dissimilation of -n- to -d-), Old Irish noin, Welsh naw).\n

\nNine to five "the average workday" is attested from 1935. Nine days has been proverbial since 14c. for the time which a wonder or novelty holds attention.

Wiktionary
nine

n. 1 The digit or figure (term: 9). 2 (context card games English) A playing card with nine pips. 3 (context weaponry English) A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol. 4 (context computing engineering usually in plural English) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.). 5 (label en baseball) A baseball club, a baseball team (composed of nine players). num. 1 (context cardinal English) A numerical value equal to 9; the number occurring after eight and before ten. 2 Describing a set or group with nine components.

WordNet
nine
  1. n. the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one [syn: 9, IX, niner, Nina from Carolina, ennead]

  2. a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together; "each club played six home games with teams in its own division" [syn: baseball club, ball club, club]

nine

adj. denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten [syn: 9, ix]

Wikipedia
Nine (Shankar Mahadevan album)

Nine is Shankar Mahadevan's second album, in which he explores nine "moods", one in each song.

Nine (band)

Nine is a Swedish hardcore band, formed in Linköping in 1994. The band has released five albums and two EPs.

Nine (Tim Hardin album)

Nine is an album by folk artist Tim Hardin, recorded in England and released in 1973. It was Hardin's final finished studio album. His next album, Unforgiven was incomplete when he died of a drug overdose.

Nine was re-issued on CD on the See For Miles label in 1994 with extensive liner notes and the single "Judge and Jury".

Nine (Samantha Jade album)

Nine is the second studio album by Australian singer Samantha Jade, released through Sony Music Australia on 20 November 2015. It is her first album of completely original material.

Nine (purity)

Nines are an informal, yet common method of grading the purity of very fine precious metals such as platinum, gold and silver. Based on the system of millesimal fineness, a metal is said to be one nine or one nine fine if it is 900 fine, or 90% pure. A metal that is 990 fine is then described as two nines fine and one that is 999 fine is described as three nines fine. Thus, nines are a logarithmic scale of purity for very fine precious metals. Similarly, percentages ending in a 5 have conventional names, traditionally the number of nines, then "five", so 999.5 fine (99.95% pure) is "three nines five", abbreviated 3N5. The nines scale is also sometimes used in describing the purity of bottled gases.

Nines are used in a similar manner to describe computer system availability.

Nine (manga)

is a baseball manga series by Mitsuru Adachi. It was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Sunday Zōkan from the October 1978 through May 1979 issues. The series was adapted into three anime television films and a live-action television drama. An altered version of the first anime was released in theaters, with new and re-arranged music.

The story is about two friends who were star athletes in junior high school who decide, on entering high school, to join the struggling baseball club so they can have a challenge. The title comes from the nine members of a baseball team.

Nine (musical)

Nine is a musical, initially created and written by Maury Yeston as a class-project in Lehman Engel's BMI Music Theatre Workshop in 1973. It was later developed with a book by Mario Fratti, and then again with a book by Arthur Kopit, music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. The story is based also on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film . It focuses on film director Guido Contini, who is dreading his imminent 40th birthday and facing a midlife crisis, which is blocking his creative impulses and entangling him in a web of romantic difficulties in early-1960s Venice.

The original Broadway production opened in 1982 and ran for 729 performances, starring Raul Julia. The musical won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and has enjoyed a number of revivals.

Nine (rapper)

Nine is the stage name of Derrick Keyes (born September 19, 1969), an American rapper from The Bronx, New York City, New York. He also been known as 9MM or Nine Double M. Known for his harsh, gravelly flow and distinctive voice, Keyes got his break in late 1993 as a featured guest on Funkmaster Flex and the Ghetto Celebs' " Six Million Ways to Die".

Keyes originally recorded under the moniker 9MM (or Nine Double M) before changing his name to simply Nine. He stated, "I didn't want to be just be named after the gun ( 9mm)." His stage name refers to his date of birth (9/19/1969), his shoe size, and his lucky number.

Nine (Fairport Convention album)

Nine is the ninth album by the British folk rock group Fairport Convention and, according to Allmusic, is their most uneven. It is their second album to feature Trevor Lucas and Jerry Donahue, and features no original members of Fairport Convention.

Polly on the Shore was re-recorded by the 21st century lineup of Fairport Convention (featuring only Dave Pegg from the Nine-era lineup) for their album Sense of Occasion in 2007, with Simon Nicol on lead vocals. The same lineup later re-recorded The Hexhamshire Lass in a new arrangement for 2012's By Popular Request. This version featured Chris Leslie on lead vocals.

Nine (2009 live-action film)

Nine is a 2009 musical drama metafilm directed and produced by Rob Marshall. The screenplay, written by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella, is based on Arthur Kopit's book for the 1982 musical Nine, which was suggested by Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film . Maury Yeston composed the music and wrote the lyrics for the songs.

The film premiered in London, opened the 6th annual Dubai International Film Festival on December 9, 2009 and was released in the United States on December 18, 2009, in New York City and Los Angeles, with a wide release on December 25, 2009.

The principal cast consists of Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Kate Hudson, and Stacy Ferguson.

Despite mixed reviews, Nine was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress ( Penélope Cruz), Best Art Direction ( John Myhre (AD), Gordon Sim (SD)), Best Costume Design ( Colleen Atwood) and Best Original Song (" Take It All" Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston).

Nine (Circus Maximus album)

Nine is the third full-length studio album by the Norwegian progressive metal band Circus Maximus. The album was released on June 1, 2012.

The album is being described as more melodic and dynamic than the previous album. The album is also more guitar-oriented. "The majority of the material on the new record was written by Mats Haugen and he has taken the music to a kind of simpler and more accessible approach, yet kept the progressive elements and the "nerve" that is Circus Maximus" says Truls Haugen. Circus Maximus will appear live in some selected shows in the summer before launching a full-scale tour in support of the new album.

Glen Cato Møllen, the bassist of the band, told about the differences among Nine and the other two albums: "Two huge elements in the new material are first and foremost the evolution of the songwriting and the accessibility of the music. When you combine that with a new sound and production, you have a pretty different outcome from what we did on “Isolate”. We have been and always will be super proud of what we accomplished with the previous albums, but I think we’ve taken it to the next level with the new stuff".

Usage examples of "nine".

Oswald Brunies, the strutting, candy-sucking teacher -- a monument will be erected to him -- to him with magnifying glass on elastic, with sticky bag in sticky coat pocket, to him who collected big stones and little stones, rare pebbles, preferably mica gneiss -- muscovy biotite -- quartz, feldspar, and hornblende, who picked up pebbles, examined them, rejected or kept them, to him the Big Playground of the Conradinum was not an abrasive stumbling block but a lasting invitation to scratch about with the tip of his shoe after nine rooster steps.

And more than this, read nine of these cases, which he has published, as I have just done, and observe the absolute nullity of aconite, belladonna, and bryonia, against the symptoms over which they are pretended to exert such palpable, such obvious, such astonishing influences.

Cardinal Acquaviva was made acquainted with these circumstances at nine this morning through the auditor you met in my room, and he promised to have the person sent away unless she belonged to his household.

The outer portion of the adrenal glands, which makes up about nine tenths of the mass of the organs is the adrenal cortex.

Coral Lorenzen, author of The Great Flying Saucer Hoax and an international director of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, immediately followed through on the startling rumors by putting in a call to Terry Clarke of KALG Radio in Alamogordo, nine miles east of Holloman.

Moya, in the course of meteorological observations on July 3, spotted the presence of an aerial object sighted for 20 minutes by nine members of the garrison.

Nine hours later he had returned to his regular duties in the aerology laboratory.

Mark Twain wrote: I must steal half a moment from my work to say how glad I am to have your book and how highly I value it, both for its own sake and as a remembrance of an affectionate friendship which has subsisted between us for nine years without a break and without a single act of violence that I can call to mind.

Prime, the first ever to be born on Altair, an exceptionally unique Prime, more talented, more powerful, more agoraphobic, more lonely, than any other Prime yet known in the Nine Star League.

After giving each of the nine members of the canine scout team a pat on the head or a scratch behind the ears, and an encouraging word or two, Ake helped secure them.

After they checked his pulse to make certain that he was still alive, Marks and Akers dragged him out of the storeroom and up the corridor to Module Nine, the laboratory which also functioned as the base infirmary.

Therefore, when you feel the rope stop your ascent, you will know that we have counted off nine hundred, and your aneroid should indicate approximately one thousand.

Probably nine tenths of all the coast lines of the open ocean are formed of arenaceous material.

Zoellner resigned from the Church Committee - he had been restrained by the Gestapo from visiting Luebeck, where nine Protestant pastors had been arrested - complaining that his work had been sabotaged by the Church Minister.

In September, General Sheridan, with a force of about forty-five thousand, had assailed General Early near Winchester, with a force of about eight or nine thousand muskets, and succeeded in driving him up the Valley beyond Strasburg, whence, attacked a second time, he had retreated toward Staunton.