fivefive /faɪv/ ●●● S2 W2 number, noun 
There is also a golf course five miles away. I’ll be back by five (=five o'clock). The family moved to Canada when he was five (=five years old).2[countable] a piece of paper money that is worth five dollars or five pounds: Do you have two fives for a ten?3 give somebody (a) five informal to hit the inside of someone’s hand with your hand to show that you are very pleased about something4take five spoken used to tell people to stop working for a few minutes5fives [uncountable] a British ball game in which the ball is hit with the hand against any of three walls6five a day British English the five amounts of fruit and vegetables that you should eat every day: Beans count as one of your five a day. → high five, nine to five
WORD ORIGINfive
Origin:
Old English fifLongman Language Activatorto stop doing something in order to rest, eat etc
especially spoken to stop working for a while in order to rest, eat etc: · We're all getting tired. Let's take a break for ten minutes.· Is it all right if we have a break at about 10.30?have a quick/short/five minute etc break: · If you're working at a computer, it's best if you have a quick break at least once an hour.
American informal to stop for a while in order to rest: · Let's take five and get some coffee.
informal to stop for a while because you want a rest, especially because you have been doing something very difficult or tiring: · It's 12 o' clock. Why don't we take a breather?· I'd only been running for five minutes, but I had to stop and take a breather.
to stop working and have lunch, a coffee break, a holiday etc: · At 12.30, the committee broke for lunch.· There's still an enormous amount of work to do before we break for Christmas.
to stop for a while and rest, either because you are tired or in order to do something else: · Try to take time out and get together with the kids.take time out to do something: · Taking time out to relax each day is important during pregnancy.take time out from/of: · The President took time out from his busy schedule to speak to the crowds.
also recess American formal if a meeting or court adjourns , or if someone in authority adjourns it, the meeting or court stops for a short time, for example so that more information can be collected: · If there are no more questions, the committee will adjourn until tomorrow morning.· "The court will recess for twenty minutes," Judge Bart said.· The trial was adjourned for two weeks until the psychiatrist's report was ready.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Beans count as one of your five a day.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The river is 2 kilometres across. Our birthdays are exactly a month apart. Geneva is about 20 miles away. The beach is only five minutes away (=it only takes five minutes to get there). It’s quicker to count by tens (=saying 10, 20, 30 ...). I always keep my watch 15 minutes fast. The patient was a girl of 12. She didn’t like working nine to five. The clock is about five minutes slow. On Saturday I went to bed and slept fourteen hours solid. The river is more than fifty yards wide.
Beans count as one of your five a day. The river is 2 kilometres across. Our birthdays are exactly a month apart. Geneva is about 20 miles away. The beach is only five minutes away (=it only takes five minutes to get there). It’s quicker to count by tens (=saying 10, 20, 30 ...). I always keep my watch 15 minutes fast. (=a number in the thousands/ten thousands/hundred thousands etc)· Choose a four figure number that you can easily remember.
(=with five players on each team)· His son played in a five-a-side football tournament.
The patient was a girl of 12.· There was a group of three at the bar, two men and a woman.
(=spend time in jail)· He was finally released after serving 27 years in jail.
(=a meal with several separate parts)· a three-course meal, including appetizer and dessert
She didn’t like working nine to five.· His contract said he must give three months’ notice if he decides to leave the job.
· a three-year-old boy
· They studied the behaviour of the ocean during a five year period.
· Unesco has a 25-year plan to provide basic education to all.
· We use all five senses to explore the world around us.
(=five/eight etc years in prison)· He was serving an eight-year sentence for burglary.
· After eight hours’ sleep, I woke up in pitch blackness.
The clock is about five minutes slow. On Saturday I went to bed and slept fourteen hours solid. (=having two etc storeys)
(=an amount in the ten thousands, hundred thousands etc)· The newspaper paid a six-figure sum for the photograph of the princess.
· The president is elected for a five-year term.
(=ten minutes, twenty minutes etc before a particular hour)
· He began the five-mile walk back to town.
· There’s a good restaurant a five-minute walk away.
The river is more than fifty yards wide.· The team had a nine-point win over Arizona.
· Can you think of a six-letter word meaning ‘difficult’?
(=every three years etc) a checkup at five-yearly intervals
a checkup at five-yearly intervalsPHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► five a day► fivesPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► two points/five seconds etc adrift (of somebody)► be five/six/seven etc months gone► ten days hence/five months hence etc► three years/five times etc running► be two/five/ten etc years somebody’s senior► five-spot/ten-spot etc► five feet/two metres etc square► two-storied/five storied etc► in 10 days’/five years’/a few minutes’ etc time
1the number 5: - I decided to give Malpass another five minutes and then I'd disappear.
- Jose Bautista fared even worse, giving up five runs, one a homer to minor-leaguer Tyrone Horne.
- Last week, Vacco gave the company five days to respond before filing a suit.
- Lizzie shortly would marry her rancher, and before she was through would give Buster five brothers and sisters.
- Shakespeare gave the play five castles: Forres.
- She gave him five minutes to pack an overnight bag under Dexter's supervision and say farewell to his family.
- They had given themselves just five weeks to prepare their first issue.
- Why should you give me the five thousand when you know the guy yourself?
- Let's take five and get some coffee.
- At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house.
- But it took five years of intense work to write the standards, circulate them for review, and then revise them.
- It will still take five or six months to receive the new document.
- It would take five Saturn 5 launches to deliver a single such storm shelter to the Moon.
- Or rather, they can take five.
- Students should take five tougher, leaner A-levels, he said.
- That means winning at home and taking five of nine on the road.
- Watkin, who won two Test caps against the West Indies in 1991 took five for 71.
- It's three years to the day since Tony Alliss died from gunshot wounds.
- Other watches of the time sped up or slowed down by a factor of ten seconds for every one-degree change in temperature.
- So look at your friends, see what they are a little vain about and then multiply by a factor of ten.
- His wife's name was Sarah; she was five years his junior, and she predeceased him by ten months.
- The 42-year-old princess married Commander Tim Laurence, who is five years her junior, just before Christmas.
- It retains a five-speed gearbox: the 959 had six speeds.
- The performance through the five-speed manual gearbox is impressive, and higher speed cruising is effortless and remarkably quiet.
- The medical superintendent of a hospital had to be a duly qualified medical practitioner of five years' standing.
- Besides being one of Henry III's most frequent ambassadors to Rome, Alexander served many times as papal judge delegate.
- I am feeling much better, though there are many times when I feel a dull ache.
- Now, as many times before, the City is missing a chance to put the system right.
- The amount of metal needed is ten times what we used on Mars.
- The males adapt to their new and relaxed home by evolving at ten times the rate of their consorts.
- The prince visited many times more.
- The real frequency of worldwide maternal mortality may be as much as three to five times higher than this ratio.
- Tours leave five times a day.
There is also a golf course five miles away. I’ll be back by five (=five o'clock). The family moved to Canada when he was five (=five years old).2[countable] a piece of paper money that is worth five dollars or five pounds: Do you have two fives for a ten?3 give somebody (a) five informal to hit the inside of someone’s hand with your hand to show that you are very pleased about something4take five spoken used to tell people to stop working for a few minutes5fives [uncountable] a British ball game in which the ball is hit with the hand against any of three walls6five a day British English the five amounts of fruit and vegetables that you should eat every day: Beans count as one of your five a day. → high five, nine to five