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Ninety-five

Definition: Ninety-five

Ninety-five

Adjective

1. Being five more than ninety.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ninety-five" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)



Synonym: Ninety-five

Synonym: xcv (adj). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: 95% saturation voltage (electrical engineering), ninety-five per cent saturation voltage.

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Crosswords: Ninety-five

English words defined with "ninety-five": 95thBlasting gelatinninety-fifth. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ninety-five": Death from Strange Causes. (references)

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Modern Usage: Ninety-five

DomainUsage

Screenplays

There's a ninety-five pound Chinese man with a hundred sixty million dollars behind this door. (Ocean's Eleven; writing credit: George Clayton Johnson; Jack Golden Russell)

Ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Ninety-five

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Books

  • Short Stories by Short People: Ninety-Five Stories by Sixth-Grade Students of Berkshire Middle School (reference)

  • Luther's Ninety-Five Theses (reference)

  • Ninety-five per cent is crap : a plain man's guide to British politics (reference)

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Music

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Image Slideshow: Ninety-five

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Photo Album: Ninety-five

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Lumber manufacture. Mills of the Boise Lumber Company, Boise, Idaho. Ninety-five percent of the production is ponderosa pine, the other five percent consists of fir and larch. This plant is building up a stockpile (June 1941) to supply quantities of ammun.Credit: Library of Congress.

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pigs of practically pure tin reclaimed from old tooth paste and other tubes in the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Each pig, which is approximately ninety-five percent tin, weig.Credit: Library of Congress.

Came to Utah from Denmark as a Mormon convert when a boy. Now ninety-five years old. Escalante, Utah.Credit: Library of Congress.

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Two-bedroom house, three in family. Girl eleven. Father truck driver. Earns ninety-five dollars monthly, pays fifteen dollars and twenty cents rent to apply on purchase. California.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ninety-five

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Malaysia

Ninety-five percent of the budget will be spent on medical care service development, which will be utilized in the financing of ongoing construction and in equipping new hospitals and clinics. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ninety-five

"Ninety-five" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ninety-five" is used about 75 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Cardinal Number100%7538,535

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Ninety-five

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "ninety-five": ninety-five-year.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ninety-five

Language Translations for "ninety-five"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

九十". (various references)

   

Danish

  

95% mætningsspænding (ninety-five per cent saturation voltage). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vijfennegentig. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

95% kyllästymisjännite (ninety-five per cent saturation voltage). (various references)

   

German

  

Sättigungsspannung für Sättigungsstrom 95% (ninety-five per cent saturation voltage). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τάση κορεσμού 95% (ninety-five per cent saturation voltage). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

닌얻y-f이v어. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Spanish

  

tensión de saturación al 95% (ninety-five per cent saturation voltage). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

95 % mättningsspänning (ninety-five per cent saturation voltage). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Ninety-five

LanguageDateSourceGenesis Chapter 5, Verse 30
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai ezhsen lamec meta to gennhsai auton ton nwe pentakosia kai exhkonta pente eth kai egennhsen uiouV kai qugateraV
Latin405VulgateVixitque Lamech postquam genuit Noe quingentos nonaginta quinque annos et genuit filios et filias
Old English990West SaxonLamech leofode þa, siððan he gestrinde Noe, v hund geare ond v hundnigontig geare ond gestrinde sunu ond dohtra.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd Lameth lyuede after that he gat Noe fyue hundrid and fyue and nynti yeer, and he gat sonys and dowytris.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd Lamech lyved after he had begot Noe v. hundred nynetie and .v. yere and begat sonnes and doughters.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Basic English1964OgdenAnd after the birth of Noah, Lamech went on living for five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters:

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Matched Bible Translations: Ninety-five

LanguageGenesis Chapter 5, Verse 30
BulgarianА откак роди Ноя, Ламех живя петстотин двадесет и пет години и роди синове и дъщери.
CebuanoUg si Lamech sa human siya manganak kang Noe, nakadangat ug lima ka gatus kasiyaman ug lima ka tuig; ug nanganak ug mga anak nga lalake ug mga anak nga babaye.
Chinese拉 麥 " 挪 亞 之 後 、 又 活 了 " 百 九 十 " 年 . 並 " " ' 養 女 。
CroatianPo roðenju Noinu Lamek je živio pet stotina devedeset i pet godina te mu se rodilo još sinova i kæeri.
DanishOg efter at Lemek havde avlet Noa, levede han 595 År og avlede Sønner og Døtre;
DutchEn Lamech leefde, nadat hij Noach gewonnen had, vijfhonderd vijf en negentig jaren; en hij gewon zonen en dochteren.
FinnishJa Lemek eli Nooan syntymän jälkeen viisisataa yhdeksänkymmentä viisi vuotta, ja hänelle syntyi poikia ja tyttäriä.
FrenchLémec vécut, après la naissance de Noé, cinq cent quatre-vingt-quinze ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
GermanDarnach lebte er fünfhundert und fünfundneunzig Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter;
Haitian CreoleApre nesans Noe, Lemèk viv senksankatrevenkenzan (595 an). Li te vin gen anpil lòt pitit gason ak pitit fi.
HungarianÉs éle Lámekh, minekutánna Noét nemzette, ötszáz kilenczvenöt esztendõt; és nemze fiakat és leányokat.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSetelah itu Lamekh masih hidup 595 tahun lagi. Ia mendapat anak-anak lain,
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka kemudian dari pada beroleh Nuh itu, Lamekh hidup lima ratus sembilan puluh lima tahun lamanya dan beroleh anak laki-laki dan perempuan.
ItalianLamech, dopo aver generato Noè, visse ancora cinquecentonovantacinque anni e generò figli e figlie.
Korean라 멕 이 노 아 를 낳 은 후 오 백 구 십 오 년 을 지 내 며 자 녀 를 낳 았 으 며
MaoriA e rima rau e iwa tekau ma rima nga tau i ora ai a Rameka i muri i te whanautanga o tana tama, o Noa, a ka whanau he tama, he tamahine mana:
Modern GreekΕζησε δε ο Λαμεχ, αφου εγεννησε τον Νωε, πεντακοσια ενενηκοντα πεντε ετη, και εγεννησεν υιους και θυγατερας·
NorwegianOg efterat Lamek hadde fått Noah, levde han ennu fem hundre og fem og nitti år og fikk sønner og døtre.
PortugueseViveu Lameque, depois que gerou a Noé, quinhentos e noventa e cinco anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.   
RumanianDupq nawterea lui Noe, Lameh a mai trqit cinci sute nouq zeci wi cinci de ani; wi a nqscut fii wi fiice.
Russianй ЦЙМ мБНЕИ П ТПЦ"ЕОЙЙ оПС СФШУПФ "ЕЧСОПУФП СФШ МЕФ Й ТП"ЙМ УЩОПЧ Й "ПЮЕТЕК.
SpanishLamec vivió después de engendrar a Noé 595 años, y engendró hijos e hijas.
SwedishOch sedan Lemek hade fött Noa, levde han fem hundra nittiofem år och födde söner och döttrar.
Thaiตั้งแต่ลาเมคให้กำเนิ"โนอาห์แล้ว ก็มีอายุต่อไปอีกห้าร้อยเก้าสิบห้าปี และให้กำเนิ"บุตรชายและบุตรสาวหลายคน
UkrainianІ жив Ламех по тому, як Ноя породив, п'ять сотень літ і дев'ятдесят і п'ять літ. І породив він синів та дочок.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Ninety-five

Misspellings

"Ninety-five" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ninetyfive. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Ninety-five

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-i-n-n-t-v-y"

-3 letters: invitee.

-4 letters: finite, intine, invent, invite, ninety, venine, vinify.

-5 letters: event, evite, feint, fenny, finny, nieve, nifty, teeny, tinny, veiny, venin, yente.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-i-n-n-t-v-y"
 

+5 letters: overidentifying.

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Alternative Orthography: Ninety-five


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 69 6E 65 74 79 2D 66 69 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110100 01111001 00101101 01100110 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#105 &#110 &#101 &#116 &#121 &#45 &#102 &#105 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0069 006E 0065 0074 0079 002D 0066 0069 0076 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4875807186911572758871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Translations: Modern
12. Bible Trace
13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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