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Definition: Ninety |
NinetyAdjective1. Being ten more than eighty. Noun1. The cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ninety" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ninety (90)
See also: eighty, ninety, one hundred, integer, list of numbers.
This article is about the number. For the year AD 90, see 90.
Ninety-one (91)
Ninety-two (92)
Ninety-three (93)
Ninety-four (94)
Ninety-five (95)
Ninety-six (96)
Ninety-seven (97)
Ninety-eight (98)
Ninety-nine (99)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ninety."
Synonyms: NinetySynonyms: 90 (n), XC (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Five | Noun: five, cinque, quint, quincux; six, half-a-dozen, half dozen; seven; eight; nine, three times three; dicker; ten, decade; eleven; twelve, dozen; thirteen; long dozen, baker's dozen; quintuplet; twenty, score; twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen; twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred; forty, two score; fifty, half a hundred; sixty, three score; seventy, three score and ten; eighty, four score; ninety, fourscore and ten; sestiad. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ninety |
| English words defined with "ninety": 100 ♦ 200 ♦ 90th, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 ♦ a hundred ♦ c, cc, Colatitude, Common time ♦ hundred ♦ ic ♦ ninetieth, ninety-eight, ninety-five, ninety-four, ninety-nine, ninety-one, ninety-seven, ninety-six, ninety-three, ninety-two, North Pole ♦ one hundred ♦ two hundred ♦ xci, xcii, xciii, xciv, xcv, xcvi, xcvii, xcviii. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ninety": Barbari ♦ codeclination ♦ Dalkey. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ninety": Nonagenarian. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ninety" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Pidgin English (ninety). |
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Screenplays | And I couldn't in good conscience vote for someone who doesn't believe in God. For someone who honestly believes that the other ninety five percent of us suffer from some form of mass delusion (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) You know, if I ever saw you do something that wasn't ninety percent selfish, I'd die of shock (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.) He reckons Market-Garden was ninety percent successful (A Bridge Too Far; writing credit: Cornelius Ryan; William Goldman) Ninety years ago I was a freak (Time After Time; writing credit: Karl Alexander; Steve Hayes) Ninety per cent of our population are lawyers (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ninety Degrees in the Shade (1965) The Ninety and Nine (1922) Around the World in Ninety Minutes (1916) Ninety Black Boxes (1914) The Ninety and Nine (1911) | |
Song Titles | NINETY NINE (99) (performing artist: Toto ) | |
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 | Victoria, Australia. Group of seven Beaufort bombers in flight over the famous ninety mile beach. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Transformer manufacture. Flowing at the rate of ninety feet per minute, the flattened copper wire is wrapped with insulating tape by these machines. The workers pictured here stand by ready to change spools. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Prostitute at window. There are 140 prostitutes in Peoria, average age about twenty-three. Local physicians estimate ninety percent have gonorrhea and seventy-five percent have syphilis. Peoria, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Oldest man in town. He is ninety two. Lincoln, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Chicken house and cattle barn, made of straw and wire, on William Helmke farm near Dickens, Iowa. The ninety acres and the crop share lease owned by a lawyer. All the buildings are of his own construction. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sunday morning, Guanah, Texas. White congregation, ninety in attendance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton picker's child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds. Strike unsuccessful. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | This block of workers' homes ninety years old. Holyoke, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Finnish lumberjack, now ninety years old, a resident of Northern Minnesota Pioneers' Home. Spooner, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Emporia, Kansas. Shearing sheep at the Emporia stockyards. There are ninety sheep pens at these stockyards and forty thousand sheep were on hand on March fourteenth. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Ninety five miles per hour" by Kd Kelly Commentary: "Not just driving fast, but taking pictures and driving fast. yes, it's crazy. it's also really, really fun. (if you use this i'd love to hear from you -- thanks)." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Henry Kissinger | Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. |
Peter F. Drucker | Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And therefore he that incloses land, and has a greater plenty of the conveniencies of life from ten acres, than he could have from an hundred left to nature, may truly be said to give ninety acres to mankind: for his labour now supplies him with provisions out of ten acres, which were but the product of an hundred lying in common. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ninety cents second time over |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | It was about ninety leagues distant, and our voyage lasted four days and an half |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Severity of lung disease is the key to the quality of and length of life. Ninety percent of persons who have CF die from pulmonary complications. (references) | |
The pain is mild to moderate and feels like pressure is being applied to the head or neck. The headache usually disappears after the period of stress is over. Ninety percent of all headaches are classified as tension/muscle contraction headaches. (references) | ||
Business | Ninety five percent of MobilTel were owned by Eastern Market Telecom, a company registered in Switzerland. (references) | |
Ninety percent of all the pagers, 65 percent of all the cellulars, and 70 percent of all the radios, are Motorola. (references) | ||
Once a reimbursement application is filed, HIRA has ninety days to make a decision, unless reasons can be provided for an extension of the specific case in question. (references) | ||
Children | Benin | Ninety to 95 percent of the children in vidomegon are young girls. (references) |
Economic History | Chad | Credit terms of up to ninety days are available. (references) |
Mexico | The panel issues its initial report within ninety days and a final report thirty days later. (references) | |
Political Economy | GUATEMALA | The Superintendency of Tax Administration, created in 1999 to improve compliance, reported revenue increases of 3.2 percent in the first seven months of 2001, as compared to the same period in 2000. Ninety percent of the government's current income is from taxes. (references) |
Trade | Sri Lanka | Under DA terms, the supplier is expected to give credit for a maximum of ninety days. (references) |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | Remember to register with the U.S. Embassy if your visit will exceed ninety days. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | After two days of fighting only ninety could still bear arms. |
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| "Ninety" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ninety" is used about 4,182 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Cardinal Number | 100% | 4,182 | 2,357 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ninety": nineteen hundred ninety seven ♦ nineteen hundred ninety six ♦ ninety one ♦ ninety per cent point ♦ ninety per cent saturation voltage ♦ Ninety Six ♦ ninety two ♦ one hundred ninety. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ninety": ninety-acre, ninety-channel, ninety-column, ninety-day, ninety-degree, ninety-dollar, ninety-eight, ninety-eighth, ninety-f, ninety-fifth, ninety-first, ninety-five, ninety-five-year, ninety-foot, ninety-four, ninety-four-man, ninety-fourth, ninety-four-year-old, ninety-horsepower, Ninety-mile, ninety-mile-an-hour, ninety-minute, ninety-nine, ninety-nine-point-nine, ninety-nine-pound, Ninety-Ninety Rule, ninety-ninth, ninety-ninth-rate, ninety-odd, ninety-one, ninety-one-day, ninety-one-year-old, ninety-per-cent, ninety-plus, ninety-pound, ninety-second, ninety-seven, ninety-seven-piece, ninety-seventh, ninety-six, ninety-third, ninety-thousand-seater, ninety-three, ninety-two, ninety-two-three, ninety-two-year-old, ninety-year, ninety-year-old, ninety-year-olds. | |
Ending with "ninety": nineteen-ninety. | |
Containing "ninety": eighteen-ninety-eight, nineteen-ninety-four, nineteen-ninety-one, nineteen-ninety-six. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ninety"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | negentig. (various references) | |
Albanian | nëntëdhjetë (ninetieth). (various references) | |
Arabic | تسعون بالغ عدد تسعين, تسعون, التسعينات العقد العاشر من العمر, العقد التاسع من العمر. (various references) | |
Asturian | noventa. (various references) | |
Aymara | llatunctunca. (various references) | |
Basque | larogeitamar. (various references) | |
Bemba | amakumi pabula. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | деветдесет. (various references) | |
Catalan | noranta. (various references) | |
Cebuano | kasiyaman. (various references) | |
Chamorro | nobenta. (various references) | |
Chinese | 九十 . (various references) | |
Cornish | dek ha peswar-ügans. (various references) | |
Croatian | devedeset. (various references) | |
Czech | devadesát. (various references) | |
Danish | halvfems. (various references) | |
Dutch | negentig. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | iscun chunca. (various references) | |
Esperanto | naŭdek, na—dek. (various references) | |
Estonian | üheksakümmend. (various references) | |
Faeroese | hálvfems. (various references) | |
Farsi | نودچیز, نودنفر, نود, عددنود. (various references) | |
Finnish | yhdeksänkymmentä. (various references) | |
Flemish | negentig. (various references) | |
French | quatre-vingt-dix. (various references) | |
French Canadian | quatre-vingt-dix. (various references) | |
Frisian | njoggentich. (various references) | |
Galician | noventa. (various references) | |
German | neunzig. (various references) | |
Greek | ενενήκοντα, ενενήντα. (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | katrevendis. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תשעים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kilencven (cantata, fourscore and ten, quartering). (various references) | |
Icelandic | níutíu. (various references) | |
Indonesian | sembilan puluh. (various references) | |
Irish | nócha. (various references) | |
Italian | novanta. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 九十 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうじゅう, くじゅう (affliction, bitter experience, bitterness, difficulty in understanding, distress, mortification). (various references) | |
Kongo | makumana. (various references) | |
Korean | 닌얻y-tw오 (ninety-two), 닌얻y-thr어어 (ninety-three), 닌얻y-온어 (ninety-one), 닌얻y-f이v어 (ninety-five), 닌얻y-닌어 (ninety-nine), 닌얻y 다섯번째 (ninety-fifth). (various references) | |
Luganda | kyenda. (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | nonzeg. (various references) | |
Macedonian | deveeset. (various references) | |
Malagasy | sivifolo. (various references) | |
Manx | kiare feed as jeig. (various references) | |
Maori | iwa tekau. (various references) | |
Mohawk | tyohton-niwahsen. (various references) | |
Norwegian | nitti. (various references) | |
Papiamen | nobenta. (various references) | |
Pidgin English | ninety. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inetynay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | noventa. (various references) | |
Provencal | nonanta. (various references) | |
Romanian | nouãzeci. (various references) | |
Romansch | novanta. (various references) | |
Romany | eynàvardesh. (various references) | |
Ruanda | mirongo icenda. (various references) | |
Russian | девяносто девяностый, девяносто. (various references) | |
Samoan | ivasefulu. (various references) | |
Sepedi | masomesenyane. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | devedeset. (various references) | |
Sicilian | novanta. (various references) | |
Slovene | devetdeset. (various references) | |
Somali | sagaashan. (various references) | |
Spanish | noventa (ninetieth). (various references) | |
Swahili | tisini. (various references) | |
Swazi | -mficá. (various references) | |
Swedish | nittio. (various references) | |
Tagalog | nobenta, siyamnapu, siyamnapû. (various references) | |
Thai | เก้าสิบ. (various references) | |
Tswana | somarobonngwe. (various references) | |
Turkish | doksan (fourscore and ten). (various references) | |
Turkmen | togsan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дев'яносто. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chín mươi. (various references) | |
Welsh | pedwar ugain a deg, deg a phedwar ugain. (various references) | |
Wolof | juróom-ñeent-fukk. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nonaginta. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | navaitîm. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | hundnigontig. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 28 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai bolisanteV euron orguiaV eikosi bracu de diasthsanteV kai palin bolisanteV euron orguiaV dekapente |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui submittentes invenerunt passus viginti et pusillum inde separati invenerunt passus quindecim |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei kesten doun a plommet, and founden twenti pasis of depnesse. And aftir a litil thei weren departid fro thennus, and foundun fiftene pasis. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And sounded and founde it .xx. feddoms. And when they had gone a lytell further they sounded agayne and founde .xv. feddoms. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they let down the lead, and saw that the sea was a hundred and twenty feet deep; and after a little time they did it again and it was ninety feet. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 28 |
| Albanian | Dhe, si hodhën matësin e thellësisë, gjetën njëzet pashë thellësi; pastaj, pak më tutje e hodhën përsëri matësin e thellësisë dhe gjetën pesëmbëdhjetë pashë. |
| Cebuano | Ug ilang gisunda ang giladmon ug kini ilang nasuta nga kaluhaan ka dupa; ug sa unahan ug diyutay giusab nila kini pagsunda ug ilang nasuta nga napulog-lima ka dupa. |
| Croatian | Bacivši olovnicu, naðoše dvadeset hvati dubine; malo poslije baciše je opet i naðoše ih petnaest. |
| Danish | Og da de loddede, fik de tyve Favne, og da de lidt længere fremme atter loddede, fik de femten Favne. |
| Dutch | En het dieplood uitgeworpen hebbende, vonden zij twintig vademen; en een weinig voortgevaren zijnde, wierpen zij wederom het dieplood uit, en vonden vijftien vademen; |
| Finnish | Ja luodattuaan he huomasivat syvyyden olevan kaksikymmentä syltä, ja vähän matkaa kuljettuaan he taas luotasivat ja huomasivat syvyyden viideksitoista syleksi. |
| French | Ayant jeté la sonde, ils trouvèrent vingt brasses; un peu plus loin, ils la jetèrent de nouveau, et trouvèrent quinze brasses. |
| German | Und sie senkten den Bleiwurf ein und fanden zwanzig Klafter tief; und über ein wenig davon senkten sie abermals und fanden fünfzehn Klafter. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jadi mereka mengulurkan tali dengan batu untuk mengukur dalamnya laut. Ternyata tempat itu sedalam hampir empat puluh meter. Tidak lama kemudian mereka mengukur lagi, lalu mendapati laut di tempat itu sedalam hampir tiga puluh meter. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | membuangkan batu duga, lalu didapatinya dua puluh depa dalamnya; maka tiada berapa jauh dari situ dibuangnya pula batu duga dan didapatinya lima belas depa. |
| Italian | Gettato lo scandaglio, trovarono venti braccia; dopo un breve intervallo, scandagliando di nuovo, trovarono quindici braccia. |
| Latvian | Nolaiduði lodi, tie atrada divdesmit asis, bet nedaudz tâlâk tie izmçrîja piecpadsmit. |
| Maori | Na ka whakatatutu ratou, ka kite e rua tekau maro: a ka neke tata atu, ka whakatatutu ano, ka kite kotahi tekau ma rima maro. |
| Norwegian | Og da de loddet, fant de tyve favner; men da de var kommet et lite stykke derfra og loddet igjen, fant de femten favner; |
| Portuguese | e lançando a sonda, acharam vinte braças; passando um pouco mais adiante, e tornando a lançar a sonda, acharam quinze braças. |
| Rumanian | Au mqsurat adkncimea apei, wi au gqsit douqzeci de stknjeni; au mers puyin mai departe, au mqsurat -o din nou, wi au gqsit cincisprezece stknjeni. |
| Russian | Й, ЧЩНЕТЙЧ ЗМХВЙОХ, ОБЫМЙ ДЧБДГБФШ УБЦЕО; РПФПН ОБ ОЕВПМШЫПН ТБУУФПСОЙЙ, ЧЩНЕТЙЧ ПРСФШ, ОБЫМЙ РСФОБДГБФШ УБЦЕО. |
| Spanish | Echaron la sonda y hallaron veinte brazas. Pasando un poco más adelante, volvieron a echar la sonda y hallaron quince brazas. |
| Swahili | Hivyo walitafuta kina cha bahari kwa kuteremsha kamba iliyokuwa imefungiwa kitu kizito, wakapata kina cha mita arobaini. Baadaye wakapima tena wakapata mita thelathini. |
| Swedish | De lodade då och funno tjugu famnars djup. När de hade kommit ett litet stycke längre fram lodade de åter och funno femton famnars djup. |
| Uma | Toe pai' ra'ulu watu pompetudu bona ra'inca kanala tahi'. Rapetudu toe, rompulu' nopo kanala-na. Oti toe rapetudu tena, hampulu' lima nopo-damo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Ninety" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: neety, Nenet, nilete, Nimet, ninet, Nineth, nineti, ninetry, Ninetta, Ninoy, nintety, ninti, ninty, nintyy, nipet, nitney, Nizniy, nonely, nonet, Xinet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ninety" (pronounced nī"ntē) |
| 3 | -n t ē | ante, anti, aplenty, appointee, Auntie, bounty, Canty, certainty, cognoscenti, county, dainty, diamante, jaunty, flinty, inti, Monte, panty, plenty, pointy, scanty, seventy, Shanti, shanty, sovereignty, twenty, uncertainty, vigilante, warranty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-n-t-y" | |
-1 letter: tinny. | |
-2 letters: nine, nite, tine, tiny, tyin, tyne, yeti. | |
-3 letters: inn, net, nit, ten, tie, tin, tye, yen, yet, yin. | |
-4 letters: en, et, in, it, ne, ti, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-n-t-y" | |
+2 letters: innately, intently. | |
+3 letters: anciently, ancientry, benignity, byzantine, eminently, encysting, indemnity, ingenuity, intensely, intensify, intensity, inventory, keynoting, leniently, nonentity, phenytoin, pinnately, renitency, syntonies, tyrannies, tyrannise, tyrannize. | |
+4 letters: amnestying, antipyrine, antonymies, bayoneting, encrypting, encryption, enticingly, femininity, immanently, imminently, indecently, indolently, infinitely, inherently, innocently, insistency, insolently, intendedly, internally, itinerancy, penitently, pertinency, phenytoins, sentiently, stringency, strychnine, tourneying, transiency, tyrannised, tyrannises, tyrannized, tyrannizer, tyrannizes, youthening. | |
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