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{
"term": "six",
"partOfSpeech": "numbernoun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "6",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "There are six cookies left."
},
{
"text": "six of Sweden’s top financial experts"
},
{
"text": "Ten people were invited but only six turned up."
},
{
"text": "Can you lend me six dollars?"
},
{
"text": "a six-month contract"
},
{
"text": "Look at page six."
},
{
"text": "Six and four is ten."
},
{
"text": "Three sixes are eighteen."
},
{
"text": "I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a six?"
},
{
"text": "The bulbs are planted in fours or sixes *(= groups of four or six)*."
},
{
"text": "We moved to America when I was six *(= six years old)*."
},
{
"text": "Shall we meet at six *(= at six o'clock)*, then?"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a hit that scores six runs (= points)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "in a confused state; not well organized",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I haven't had time to clear up, so I'm all at sixes and sevens."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be dead and buried in the ground",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to affect somebody very deeply",
"labels": "(British English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The business over the lawsuit had really knocked her for six."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that there is not much real difference between two possible choices",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/sɪks/",
"audio": "si/six/six__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/sɪks/",
"audio": "si/six/six__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English siex, six, syx, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zes and German sechs, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sex and Greek hex."
}