nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nīn
ipa: /naɪn/
ipa: [naɪ̯n]
note: Indic
ipa: /naj(ə)n/
note: Indic
ipa: [nɐi̯(ɐ)n]
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: nines
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁néwn̥
From Middle English nyne, nine, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”). Cognate with Scots neen, nine (“nine”), Saterland Frisian njúgen (“nine”), West Frisian njoggen (“nine”), Dutch negen (“nine”), German Low German negen (“nine”), German neun (“nine”), Danish ni (“nine”), Swedish nio (“nine”), Icelandic níu (“nine”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun, “nine”), Latin novem (“nine”), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa, “nine”), Sanskrit नवन् (navan, “nine”).
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, if a number does not have nines, you can remove or add zeroes at the end of a biography to get another biography of the same number.
ref: 2008 March 2, Tanya Khovanova, “Autobiographical Numbers”, in arXiv, page 3:
glosses: The digit or figure 9.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A playing card with nine pips.
examples: text: Hiro risks turning on a small flashlight, uses it to rummage around the yatcht, picking up valuable stuff: a few bottles of (presumably) drinkable water, some food, extra ammunition for his nine.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 359:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
examples: text: They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
examples: text: The St. Louis club is the only nine in the league which gives its patrons the right to see a full game or no pay.
ref: 1877, Chicago Times, July 8, 1877
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
Synonyms: word: IX
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: eight
sense: Next
word: ten
Derived terms: all sixes and nines
a stitch in time saves nine
back nine
bent as a nine-bob note
cast out nines
cat-o'-nine
cat-o-nine
cat-o'-nine-tails
cloud nine
cloud number nine
club nine
dressed to the nines
eighty-nine
false nine
feel nine feet tall
fifty-nine
five and nine
five-nine
forty-nine
four-and-nine
front nine
grade nine
knicky-knocky-nine-doors
my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas
my very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins
my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas
nicky-nicky-nine-doors
nine ball
nine-ball
nine-banded armadillo
ninebark
nine bows
nine-darter
nine-dash line
nine days wonder
nine-day wonder
nine day wonder
nine days' wonder
Nine Elms
nine-eyes
nine figures
nineholes
nine hundred
nineish
nine-killer
nineling
nine lives
nine men's morris
Nine Mile
nineness
nine night
nine nine nine
nine-nine-nine
nine o'clock
nine-one-one
nine one one
ninepence
ninepenny
ninepin
nineplex
nine-point circle
nine points circle
nine-pounder
ninescore
ninesies
nineteen
nine-tenths
nine-thousander
nine-timer
nine times out of ten
nine to five
nine-to-five
nine-to-fiver
ninety-nine
nine ways to Sunday
nine while five
number nine
on cloud nine
one and nines
over nine thousand
possession is nine points of the law
possession is nine-tenths of the law
seventy-nine
sixes and nines
sixty-nine
stanine
star sixty-nine
star-sixty-nine
the whole nine yards
thirty-nine
to the nines
triple nine
twenty-nine
Wallace rule of nines