Crossword clues for sixteenth
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sixteenth \Six"teenth`\, a. [From Sixteen: cf. AS. sixte['o]?a.]
Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.
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Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
Sixteenth note (Mus.), the sixteenth part of a whole note; a semiquaver.
Sixteenth \Six"teenth`\, n.
The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.
The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.
(Mus.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second.
--Moore (Encyc. of Music.)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context fractional English) One of sixteen equal parts of a whole. num. (context ordinal English) The ordinal form of the number sixteen.
WordNet
adj. coming next after the fifteenth in position [syn: 16th]
n. position 16 is a countable series of things
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "sixteenth".
Among other results was the ease with which German Protestantism became the instrument of royal and princely absolutism from the sixteenth century until the kings and princes were overthrown in 1918.
It was the French algebraists in the sixteenth century who fully codified this system.
Although Bee was her half sister, Ana tended to think of her as more of a sixteenth sister, or a sixty-fourth sister, or even, to put it decimally, a nought-point-nought-nought-nought-one-percent sister.
The fabric of superstition which they had erected, and which might long have defied the feeble efforts of reason, was at length assaulted by a crowd of daring fanatics, who from the twelfth to the sixteenth century assumed the popular character of reformers.
No historian, no documents of the sixteenth century mention the existence of such an Austral mainland.
Juanita Mott had left school at fifteen, but in May 1973, shortly after her sixteenth birthday, had suffered an ectopic pregnancy, an experience that probably unsettled her still more.
On the sixteenth, however, he embarked at Gravesend with a numerous retinue, and set sail for Holland under convoy of twelve ships of war commanded by admiral Rooke.
The catastrophic decline in the Indian population, partly because of Spanish cruelty, partly because of imported disease, affected the labour supply, while some 200,000 Spaniards may have emigrated to America during the sixteenth century.
And they succeeded: With later modifications, the geocentric hypothesis adequately accounted for the facts of planetary motion as known in the second century, and in the sixteenth.
The movements started by the medieval mystics and still more by the heretics Wyclif and Huss, rehearsed the religious drama of the sixteenth century.
At length, before dawn on the morning of the sixteenth, the sentinels on the Saut au Matelot could descry the slowly moving lights of distant vessels.
In the beginning of the sixteenth century, the second capital of the West was represented by a mosch, a college without students, twenty-five or thirty shops, and the huts of five hundred peasants, who, in their abject poverty, displayed the arrogance of the Punic senators.
An accurate examination respecting these words gives the following results: The word Naturalism arose first in the sixteenth century, and was spread in the seventeenth.
Renny had gone to Lady Nelia first Doc rode upward, alighting at the sixteenth.
Confidential Report had pix of Wetherall indulging his hobby in the smart lasso competition at the sixteenth annual Wyoming Tech Rodeo.