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six

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/sɪks/

Etymology

PIE word *swéḱs From Middle English six, from Old English six, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx), Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ). Doublet of sice. Toilet sense predates military usage.

  1. inherited from *swéḱs✻
  2. inherited from *sehs✻
  3. inherited from *sehs✻
  4. inherited from six
  5. inherited from six

Definitions

  1. A numerical value equal to 6

    A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This number of dots: (••••••).

    • Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters. In Niger, at least six people are now feared dead, local media reported.

  2. A group or set with six elements.

  3. The digit or figure 6.

    • how about 100 then? for 100, I wanted to pay homage to the people who have been using seximal this entire time. specifically, I used the word for six sixes found in the Ndom language, "nif".
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. A playing card featuring six pips.

    2. Six o'clock.

      • In Austria the prisoners rise at five, [...]. There are morning prayers at a quarter to six, after which the prisoners are conducted to work.

    3. Rear, behind (rear side of something).

      • cover my six
      • Just as having an enemy on your “six” is the hardest situation to escape, being on an enemy at six o'clock is the surest kill. Fighter pilots are always practicing maneuvers to get out from having another aircraft on their six.

    4. An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a…

      An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.

      • His century featured 12 sixes.
      • England required 15 from the last over of the regular match. Ben Stokes hit a six and benefited when a throw from the deep hit him and went for four overthrows.

    5. A touchdown.

    6. A bathroom or toilet.

    7. Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel.

    8. Abbreviation of MI6 (intelligence service).

    9. A surname.

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Derived

pick six, at sixes and sevens, deep six, hit someone for six, long six, short six, six feet under, Six's thermometer

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at six. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at six. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at six

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA