sixsix /sɪks/ ●●● S2 W2 number 
six months ago She arrived just after six (=six o'clock). He learnt to play the violin when he was six (=six years old).2six figures/digits used to talk about a number that is between 100,000 and 1,000,000: The final cost of the project will easily run into six figures (=be over £100,000 or $100,000).3at sixes and sevens informal disorganized and confused: When the visitors arrived, we were still at sixes and sevens.4it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other spoken used to say that both people or groups who are involved in a situation are equally responsible for something bad that happens: In any family quarrel, it’s usually six of one and half a dozen of the other.5knock/hit somebody for six British English spoken to affect someone strongly in a bad way: Losing his job really knocked him for six.6[countable] a hit in cricket that scores six runs because the ball crosses the edge of the playing area before touching the ground
WORD ORIGINsix
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Old EnglishWORD SETS
bail, nounbat, verbbatsman, nounboundary, nounbowl, verbbowler, nounbowling, nouncatch, verbcentury, nouncrease, nouncricketer, noundismiss, verbduck, noungoogly, nouninfield, nouninnings, nounlbw, adverblob, verbloft, verbover, nounpavilion, nounpitch, verbpull, nounrun, nounsingle, nounsix, numberslip, nounspinner, nounstand, nounstump, nounstump, verbtest, nountest match, nounwicket, nounwicket keeper, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The final cost of the project will easily run into six figures (=be over £100,000 or $100,000).COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Book tickets 21 days in advance. Place the two posts 6 metres apart. We devote five full days a month to training. His pants rose a full three inches off his shoes. None of these sculptures was less than three metres in height. Sunflowers can grow to a height of 15 feet. They ought to jail her killer for life. He knows he’s only got a few months to live.
The final cost of the project will easily run into six figures (=be over £100,000 or $100,000). Book tickets 21 days in advance. Place the two posts 6 metres apart. (=having three/six etc programmes)· It’s a new four-part crime drama starting on Monday night.
(=be 10 or more/100,000 or more etc)· The death toll in the region has reached five figures.
(=a number in the thousands/ten thousands/hundred thousands etc)· Choose a four figure number that you can easily remember.
We devote five full days a month to training. His pants rose a full three inches off his shoes. (=in prison) The judge gave her two years in prison.
The judge gave her two years in prison. None of these sculptures was less than three metres in height. Sunflowers can grow to a height of 15 feet. (=work that it took you an hour/six hours etc to do)· I did two hours’ work before breakfast.
· Griffiths spent three days in jail after pushing a policeman.
They ought to jail her killer for life. He knows he’s only got a few months to live.· There are plans to build a new six-lane motorway through the area.
· They studied the behaviour of the ocean during a five year period.
(=one over £100,000 or $100,000)· He’s now a top executive with a six-figure salary.
(=an amount in the ten thousands, hundred thousands etc)· The newspaper paid a six-figure sum for the photograph of the princess.
· Special 10-day visas were issued to cover the time of the conference.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► at sixes and sevens► it’s six of one and half a dozen of the otherPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► six-footer/eighteen-footer etc► I give it six weeks/a month etc► be five/six/seven etc months gone► throw dice/a six/a four etc
1the number 6: - But that must mean that the estate might run well into six figures.
- Each new compound synthesised was simply given a number, sometimes up to six figures long.
- Here are guys making six figures.
- Landsness obtained a settlement that he said exceeded six figures.
- Minutes later, a small group of six figures emerged from the woods.
- Movie rights have been sold, and Vintage Books just paid six figures to publish the paperback.
- That might boost the take up into the low six figures.
- The five-year deal is estimated at six figures.
- He'd done it again, she realised in amazement - with just a few choice words he'd knocked her for six.
- He'd done it again, she realised in amazement - with just a few choice words he'd knocked her for six.
- All the comfortable rooms sleep two and are of a high standard with private shower and W.C; most have a balcony.
- Expect to pay $ 115 for a cabin that sleeps four during peak season.
- He was probably fed up with having to sleep four to a bed.
- I can actually go home and sleep six hours at night now.
- Rates start at $ 75 per night off-season for a cabin that sleeps two.
- Soldiers sleep four or six to a dormitory, with lockable doors and private bathrooms.
- The properties, which sleep four people, are based at Rosecraddoc Manor, set in 38 acres of woodlands near Liskeard.
- They sleep six to a bed and wake up to the fiery sting of bug bites.
six months ago She arrived just after six (=six o'clock). He learnt to play the violin when he was six (=six years old).2six figures/digits used to talk about a number that is between 100,000 and 1,000,000: The final cost of the project will easily run into six figures (=be over £100,000 or $100,000).3at sixes and sevens informal disorganized and confused: When the visitors arrived, we were still at sixes and sevens.4it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other spoken used to say that both people or groups who are involved in a situation are equally responsible for something bad that happens: In any family quarrel, it’s usually six of one and half a dozen of the other.5knock/hit somebody for six British English spoken to affect someone strongly in a bad way: Losing his job really knocked him for six.6[countable] a hit in cricket that scores six runs because the ball crosses the edge of the playing area before touching the ground