Fives

Word FIVES
Character 5
Hyphenation fives
Pronunciations /faɪvz/

Definitions and meanings of "Fives"

What do we mean by fives?

The digit/figure 5.

A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.

Anything measuring five units, as length.

A person who is five years old.

Five o'clock.

A short rest, especially one of five minutes.

A basketball team, club or lineup.

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The word "fives" in example sentences

The standard dome starts out as a twenty-side polygon, whose points come together in "fives" not sixes. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I got a lot of thumbs-up and high-fives from the teachers and some of the moms at school this morning. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(Everything must come in fives these days.) "Now I have to leave you," she told me as she disappeared around the doorframe. ❋ Kittenpie (2007)

They queried up in fives and sixes, on all sides, striking simultaneously, hammering us from every direction. ❋ Unknown (1944)

-- 14 straight seasons of 10 or more wins (1987-2000) -- Florida State played for the national title fives times between 1993-2000

We may observe in Homer, that Proteus counts his sea-calves by fives and fives, that is, by his fingers. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

Among other "fives" are the five surefire ways "to crack the bestseller list." ❋ Peter Rozovsky (2010)

The object of the game is to make as many "fives" and "threes" as are possible; for instance, a player should always make the domino show fifteen if he can, as three divides into fifteen five times, and five divides into fifteen three times, and he would thus score 8 (three and five). ❋ Clarence Squareman (N/A)

Dictionary, edition of 1876, describes the first, and presumably the older, as similar to "fives" or hand-ball, while the second is the game supposed to be allied to base-ball. ❋ John M. Ward (N/A)

Then, finding Bess Fraser at his elbow, he asked her to play "fives" with him. ❋ Various (N/A)

Sport is sport, and no one loves a stiff game of "fives" or ❋ Donald Ogden Stewart (1937)

Sport is sport, and no one loves a stiff game of "fives" or "rounders" more than I, but the spectacle of a young unmarried lady and her escort hanging by their limbs on the Lord's Day from the second or third cross arm of an electric telegraph pole is certainly carrying things a bit too far, in my opinion, even in this age of "golf" and lawn "tennis." ❋ Unknown (1922)

Of 'fives' they made an exception, for in this he attained much proficiency, owing to a certain windmill-like quality of limb. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

The India-rubber is made into balls for a game resembling "fives," and calumba-root is said to be used as a mordant for certain colours, but not as a dye itself. ❋ David Livingstone (1843)

Some parents offered "fives," saying they felt reassured that the selection process had been thorough.

I didn't putt really well the whole day and didn't take advantage of the par fives which is not good. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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