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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sixteen \Six"teen`\, a. [AS. sixt?ne, sixt?ne. See Six, and Ten, and cf. Sixty.] Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.
Sixteen \Six"teen`\, n.
The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.
A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sixtyne, from siex (see six) + -teen. Similar formation in Old Frisian sextine, Middle Dutch sestien, Dutch zestien, German sechszehn, Old Norse sextan.\nThe age of the gods is always sixteen. Sixteen represents the number of perfection, of plenitude. In man it is after the sixteenth year that the first elements of decay begin to appear, and when the moon reaches the sixteenth digit it begins to decrease. [Alain Daniélou, "The Myths and Gods of India"]\nFrom Latin contracted form sexdecim, sedecim come Italian sedici, French seize.
Wiktionary
num. The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.
WordNet
adj. being one more than fifteen [syn: 16, xvi]
n. the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one [syn: 16, XVI]
Wikipedia
Sixteen is a 1943 Argentine film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen.
Sixteen was a Polish band, which was founded in 1997 and disbanded in 2004. Renata Dąbkowska is its lead singer, and it represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998.
Their debut album "Lawa" (Lava) was released in 1997.
During the later part of 1998, the band became known as Seventeen and sometimes Sixteen-Seventeen.
Sixteen is a card game for 2 or 4 players, designed for players 8 and older, and published by Alpine Games. According to Major Fun, the game includes a good balance of strategy and luck, it is easy to learn, and takes approximately 15 minutes to play.
"Sixteen" is the third single from the English band The Indelicates to be released on three different formats on 8 October 2007 by Weekender Records. An earlier version of the song can be found on The Last Significant Statement EP. It was the first Indelicates single to feature Julia as the main singer, and which Julia and Simon wrote together - the whole of Songs for Swinging Lovers is credited as written by Simon and Julia Indelicate
The video shows the band dressed up as old people in an old peoples home. The video was produced by Pinewood Studios-based WindowSlaws Productions.
Sixteen is a restaurant on the sixteenth floor of the Trump International Hotel and Tower, Chicago in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. It is one of three food and dining options in the hotel's room service offering. Sixteen opened in early February 2008, and an adjoining outdoor patio terrace, named The Terrace at Trump, opened on June 25, 2009 following the completion of the hotel's construction.
The restaurant and its terrace are known for their views of the city. The eastward view includes Lake Michigan, Chicago River, and the Wrigley Building clock tower. During the summer, the view includes the seasonal semi-weekly fireworks displays over the lake from Navy Pier. The restaurant holds a five- star rating, according to the Forbes Travel Guide (formerly Mobil Travel Guide), making it one of only 3 restaurants in the city to attain such a rating in 2015, and a two-star rating by the Michelin Guide. In 2014, 2015 and 2016, it was one of only 5 restaurants in the city to achieve at least a two-star Michelin rating.
Sixteen is a 1983 album by American singer Stacy Lattisaw. Released on October 11, 1983 by Cotillion Records when Lattisaw was 16 years old. The single, "Miracles", peaked at number thirteen on the U.S. R&B chart in 1983.
Sixteen is a 2013 Hindi-language drama thriller film directed by Raj Purohit and starring Wamiqa Gabbi and Zakir Hussain.
SIXTEEN is the debut feature from award winning director Rob Brown starring Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Rosie Day, Rachael Stirling, Fady Elsayed, Sam Spruell, and Deon Williams. Sixteen was first premiered at the 2013 BFI London Film Festival. It was nominated for The Sutherland Award for Best Debut Feature, and director Rob Brown was nominated for Best British Newcomer.
Category:British films Category:2013 films
"Sixteen" is the third episode of season one of the UPN Television Network television series Moesha. The episode was written by series creator Ralph Farquhar, and directed by Ted Lange. This episode is one of the few episodes in which the main character Moesha celebrates her birthday. The plot is centered on a big milestone in Moesha's life – she is now able to date.
Sixteen (, stylized as SIXTEEN) was a 2015 reality girl group survival show created by JYP Entertainment and Mnet. The show pitted sixteen JYP trainees against one another to secure a spot in the girl group Twice. Unlike other music competition shows, Sixteen contestants were assessed for not only their singing and dancing abilities but also their charisma and personality. The show premiered May 5, 2015, and ran for ten episodes through July 7, 2015, on Mnet.
Usage examples of "sixteen".
In the second case, in a youth of sixteen, death occurred after washing out a deep abscess of the nates with the same solution.
DEAR SON, The Lord Adelantado and your brother and Carbajal left here sixteen days ago to go to the Court.
A few days later he sent me some plants with sixteen seeds or fruits adhering to fourteen leaves.
Thirty seconds later sixteen of them were crouched on the aft hull, all carrying machine guns, wearing balaclava hoods and wired into their walkie-talkies.
The ranks of the winged were growing, for the Youth of sixteen were being enlisted, and now the count of able-bodied alated was well over two hundred thousand.
With four of us using our allas at the same time we could get sixteen pi meters, which is, urn, 164 feet and 10.
At age sixteen, I developed alopecia areata, a condition that causes patches of baldness in an otherwise healthy head of hair.
To get at them, Meir Amit used his top agent inside Egypt, the riding-school-owner Wolfgang Lutz, who found himself from September 1963 onward forced to take suicidal risks, which sixteen months later would lead to his undoing.
The State in its three institutions--the common school, the high school, the college and university--has many in its care and under its tuitions for fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years, and in these tuitions has she created in her children a new nature, whatever their ancestry or place of birth.
Machen glanced behind him to where two Arachno MekTek guards stood still and silent, their sixteen eyes shining masks of reflective carbon plate.
Those seventeen-now reduced to sixteen since Doole had eliminated Arb Skynxnex from consideration-clearly had been rising stars in the Black Sun organization.
Only those above sixteen karats are sent on here to Khanbalik, and only those assayed at the fineness of pure unalloyed gold, twenty-four karats, have any hope of getting near the great Khakhan.
They were individually more powerful than any past Manticoran battlecruiser had ever mounted, with fourteen emitters per cluster, each capable of cycling at one shot every sixteen seconds.
I sat at the left of Madame Isola-Bella, who began to play, and as there were fifteen or sixteen of us I had lost about fifty sequins when my turn came, for my harlequin had not appeared once.
The memorable benefaction of the year 508, which was a famine reinforced by a pestilence, swept away sixteen hundred millions of people in nine months.