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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nines

in phrase to the nines "to perfection" (1787) first attested in Burns, apparently preserves the ancient notion of the perfection of the number as three times three (such as the nine Muses).[T]he Book of St. Albans, in the sections on blasonry, lays great stress on the nines in which all perfect things (orders of angels, virtues, articles of chivalry, differences of coat armour, etc.) occur. [Weekley]No one seems to consider that it might be a corruption and misdivision of to then anes, literally "for the one (purpose or occasion)," a similar construction to the one that yielded nonce (q.v.).

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nines

n. (plural of nine English)

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Nines (card game)

Nines is a trick-taking game played with a standard deck of 52 playing cards. Nines is played by three people, and the object is to lower your score from 9 to zero.

Nines

Nines may refer to:

  • Nines, Albania, a village in Fier County
  • Nines (card game), a card game
  • List of unusual units of measurement#Nines describes terms like "five nines" in engineering, including:
    • High availability of systems, which also has a chart
    • Nine (purity), with respect to materials
  • Nines (film), a film
  • Nines (rugby), a variant of rugby league football
  • The Nines (band), a power pop band led by Steve Eggers from Toronto, Canada
  • The Nines (2007), psychological thriller and drama, written and directed by John August
  • The Nines (hotel), luxury hotel in Portland, Oregon, United States
  • Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship (NINES), scholarly initiative supported by Applied Research in Patacriticism
  • Cambridge '99 Rowing Club

Usage examples of "nines".

The drafts are for grams, three nines fine, drawn on Ceres and South Africa Acceptances, Limited, Luna City.

By draft in grams, three nines, on Ceres and South Africa Acceptances, Luna City office.

For centuries each had been selecting eight subordinates carefully, choosing only men who could remain loyal to the ultimate extremity and who would, themselves, build their own Nines with equal care.

Nine nines is as good as we're ever going to get and we can't reach that without specialized equipment, which isn't here.