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[siks] 
–noun
| 1. | a cardinal number, five plus one. |
| 2. | a symbol for this number, as 6 or VI. |
| 3. | a set of this many persons or things. |
| 4. | a playing card, die face, or half of a domino face with six pips. |
| 5. | Cricket. a hit in which the ball crosses the boundary line of the field without a bounce, counting six runs for the batsman. Compare boundary (def. 3). |
| 6. | an automobile powered by a six-cylinder engine. |
| 7. | a six-cylinder engine. |
–adjective
—Idiom| 8. | amounting to six in number. |
| 9. | at sixes and sevens,
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Origin:
bef. 900; ME six, sex, OE siex, syx, seox, sex; c. D zes, LG ses, G sechs, ON sex, Goth saihs, L sex, Gk héx, Skt ṣaṣ
bef. 900; ME six, sex, OE siex, syx, seox, sex; c. D zes, LG ses, G sechs, ON sex, Goth saihs, L sex, Gk héx, Skt ṣaṣ
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| six (sĭks) n.
[Middle English, from Old English; see s(w)eks in Indo-European roots.] six adj. & pron. |
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Six
Six\, a. [AS. six, seox, siex; akin to OFries. sex, D. zes, OS. & OHG. sehs, G. sechs, Icel., Sw., & Dan. sex, Goth. sa['i]hs, Lith. szeszi, Russ. sheste, Gael. & Ir. se, W. chwech, L. sex, Gr. ??, Per. shesh, Skr. shash. [root]304. Cf. Hexagon, Hexameter, Samite, Senary, Sextant, Sice.] One more than five; twice three; as, six yards. Six Nations (Ethnol.), a confederation of North American Indians formed by the union of the Tuscaroras and the Five Nations. Six points circle. (Geom.) See Nine points circle, under Nine.Six
Six\, n. 1. The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects. 2. A symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or VI. To be at six and seven or at sixes and sevens, to be in disorder. --Bacon. Shak. Swift.
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O.E. siex, from P.Gmc. *sekhs (cf. O.S. seks, O.N., O.Fris. sex, M.Du. sesse, Du. zes, O.H.G. sehs, Ger. sechs, Goth. saihs), from PIE *seks (cf. Skt. sas, Avestan kshvash, Gk. hex, L. sex, O.C.S. sesti, Lith. sesi, O.Ir. se, Welsh chwech). Six-shooter is first attested 1844; six-pack of beverage is from 1952. Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other "little difference" is recorded from 1836. Phrase at sixes and sevens "hazarding all ones chances," is first in Chaucer, perhaps from dicing (the original form was on six and seven) and could be a corruption of on cinque and sice, using the Fr. names (which were common in M.E.) for the highest numbers on the dice.
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six
In addition to the idioms beginning with six, also see at sixes and sevens; deep six; Joe six-pack.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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