Definition of fifth in English:

fifth

ordinal number fɪfθfɪ(f)θ

1Constituting number five in a sequence; 5th.
the fifth century BC
her mother had just given birth to another child, her fifth
the world's fifth-largest oil exporter
the fifth of November
Example sentencesExamples
- The starting point for the language that became English, and for his book, is the arrival in England in the fifth century of Germanic warrior tribes.
- In the 1990s the first woman Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, for example, was the critical fifth vote in more five to four decisions than anybody else.
- They simply ran out of steam in the second half to slump to their fifth defeat out of five, a record that consigns them to the wooden spoon, their first wooden spoon in the competition since 2002.
- These markets and institutions have changed dramatically in the five years since the fifth edition was published.
- The ‘mountain’ is named for the patron saint of Paris, who founded a convent there towards the end of the fifth century.
- The final independent invention of zero in India was long debated by scholars, but seems to be set around the middle of the fifth century.
- There were 39 brands of light vehicles for sale in 1986, the fifth best year on record.
- The apartment was on the fifth floor of a five story brick building in a part of town that had once been much grander than it was now.
- Additional miscellaneous activities are also frequent apart from these major groupings, and can constitute a fifth category.
- By June 1806 Bowditch had read the first four of Laplace's five volumes (the fifth volume was not published by Laplace until 1825).
- The fifth day of a five day forecast is accurate 20% of the time and these guys are gonna tell me what the weather will be like a hundred years from now?
- It was a subtle touch, one I didn't notice until the opening sequence of the fifth episode - and by then it was too late.
- This is now the fifth day, five days on, and we are waiting to know what happened to him and I, his mother, I need to know what happened to Anthony.
- In the fifth month you have five pairs (because the first pair of babies has become old enough to reproduce).
- One of the most romantic ruins in Wiltshire, the castle was built in the late 14th century by the fifth Lord Lovel.
- Joe Nathan got the final two outs for his fifth save in five opportunities.
- Beware, though, as some allow only a limited number of region switches such that after perhaps five toggles, the fifth region code becomes fixed on the drive.
- That day, when Ally had yet again defended his talent, he pitched horribly; giving up three runs in the fourth inning and another five in the fifth inning.
- After three minutes his sharp pass to Broadbent saw the ball quickly moved on to Mark Cain, who notched his fifth try in five games.
- He looked at his watch for what seemed to be the fifth time in five minutes.
- Seems I'm moving desks again - the fifth time in five years, which makes for a nice round average.
1. 1.1 The fifth finisher or position in a race or competition.
  he finished fifth
  Example sentencesExamples
  At the Leinster Schools held in Dublin, Cheryl Nolan won gold in the junior 1,500m and Sinead Kelly competing in the same race finished a credible fifth place.
  We were ranked fifth going into the race and came out third with a new British record.
  A five-way competition for the fifth spot in the rotation has no real front-runner.
  Emmett ran a good race to finish in fifth place with a ‘Personal Best’ of 4 minutes 2 seconds.
  The club expects strong competition for the fifth spot.
  The winner gets 15 points, the second 10, the third is awarded seven, the fourth gets five and the fifth earns three.
  Her best this season in four races was a fifth place in Germany which left her in seventh place overall in the rankings.
  But fifth place, five seconds behind the American, will have given him a huge boost in confidence for the tests that lie ahead.
  One of our brave lads, Andrew Homan, went over the side and made short work of the net with a knife, but it cost us 25 minutes, finishing that race in fifth place in a dying wind.
  This created the strange statistic that City finished fifth bottom, but they actually had a positive goal difference.
  Co-captain Mike Logue earned OUA all-star status at the competition with a fifth place finish, the highest by a Warrior.
  Jane, who was fifth last year, led the way for Knavesmire to collect the ladies team prize by taking runner-up slot in 84-31.
  Clach climbed five places into fifth spot after a wash out in the Highland League, with a 2-0 triumph over north rivals Fort William.
  He finished the race in fifth place having started from 16th position on the grid.
  He rejoined the race in sixth place but fought back to finish in fifth place and had to settle for picking up championship points.
  He has risen from the fifth best-placed Australian to being their top ranked player and if he can maintain his remarkable run, it will only be a short time before he climbs into the top ten.
  Assuming Jarrod Washburn, Ramon Ortiz, John Lackey, and Aaron Sele stay around, it could be quite a race for the fifth spot.
  Without the drive-through penalty, Christian would have finished the race in fifth or sixth place.
  Like all of the fastest cars at Michigan, he came up short in the fuel mileage game but still raced to a fifth place finish.
  He piloted his race car to a fifth place finish in race two of the weekend.
2. 1.2 (in some vehicles) the fifth (and typically highest) in a sequence of gears.
  in my panic I changed from third to fifth
  Example sentencesExamples
  These figures are achieved high in the rev range, and with a fairly relaxed fifth gear a quick shift back to fourth is needed for quick overtaking.
  And in fifth gear it simply didn't have enough oomph to overcome gravity.
  You long for the moment when you can cut the din by going into fifth… but when you do, you find yourself on another hill, virtually grinding to a halt.
  At some point, you'll end up selecting fifth instead of third.
  Forget swanning along in top or even fifth gear all day.
  Once he was in fifth gear he just cruised, hardly paying attention to his surroundings.
  I found this engine a bit on the small side, but that is just a personal thing as it is more than capable of motorway cruising and has enough power for overtaking, even in fifth.
  Brett Sales yanked the Cavalier's gear down from fifth into fourth to overtake the van in front of him before he reached the next roundabout.
  Outside built up areas, the car can be driven on just two gears, fourth and fifth, so flexible is the engine.
  Despite being geared to reach its top speed in the fifth of its seven gears, you can never quite escape the V10's voice.
3. 1.3British The fifth form of a school or college.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the Construction Studies room fifth and sixth class primary school visitors will be able to participate in a wood class helped by the present first years.
  When the fun was over, the children thanked Peter Millen and fifth class teacher Maria Walsh for organising the event for them.
4. 1.4 Fifthly (used to introduce a fifth point or reason)
  fourth, it can aid the process of life review, and fifth, it is an enjoyable and stimulating experience
5. 1.5Music An interval spanning five consecutive notes in a diatonic scale, in particular (also perfect fifth) an interval of three tones and a semitone (e.g. C to G)
  strings tuned a fifth apart
  Example sentencesExamples
  The notes in a perfect fifth, for example, have a frequency ratio 3: 2.
  Open fifths, fourths and tritones, modality and whole-tone scales abound.
  Notes separated by intervals of a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth have always been the most important ‘consonances’ in western music.
  And several times in the book a diminished fifth rather than an augmented fourth is called a tritone.
  The strings of a four-string cello are usually tuned in fifths.
6. 1.6Music The note which is higher by a fifth than the root of a diatonic scale.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The final movement is based on chords of parallel fifths.
  The crisp phrases of the robust seventeen-bar ground, with its harmonically stable fourths and fifths and harmonious consort of bass and triadic chords, clearly assert the traditional lineaments of the form.
  The third of a triad may be emphasized above its root or fifth to create a ‘sweeter’ quality in a dolce passage.
  Wonderful old songs, and slowly my fingers get used to playing blues scales, blue notes and the squashed sliding thirds and fifths of this old music fusing Irish, Scottish, French, African and English melodies.
7. 1.7US informal A fifth of a gallon, as a measure of alcoholic drink, or a bottle of this capacity.
  a fifth of whisky
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dog-Eyes had pulled a fifth of whiskey from his coat and was offering her a hit.
  I guess shelter should be my first priority, and then about a fifth of some liquor that tastes about as nasty as it smells.
  We have enough left to splurge on a fifth of Captain Morgan's and a case of Black Label.
  Rock had downed eight, Ally seven and they'd also gone through a bottle of wine and half of a fifth of vodka.
  Should I just down a fifth of vodka and go to sleep for several hours, and hope they are back by the time I lapse out of unconsciousness?
  While at the party, I managed to polish off a fifth of Jose in less than two hours, so I had a few minutes of relative coherence before I sailed off into oblivion.
  Witnesses later confirmed Bill stopped at the liquor store at the county line and downed a fifth of whiskey before driving into town.
  With some help from the others, Sal buys a fifth of whiskey to share.
  This is really good news for us, ladies: If we have to run around in those ridiculous outfits, at least we can still take the edge off with a fifth of vodka.
  Much of the crowd appeared dumbfounded as Franken took the microphone and sounded like he'd just downed a fifth and maybe smoked a little something, too.
  He had as good a chance of chipping into my drinking money as a Central Park wino hitting up the president of the Anti-Saloon League for a fifth of bourbon.
  The first thing he did was stop in a liquor store to buy a fifth of rye whiskey.
2Each of five equal parts into which something is or may be divided.
Example sentencesExamples
- Birth weight for gestational age, divided into fifths, showed an association with later marital status for men but not women.
- And one of the county's commerce bosses claims one in five employers say a fifth of all current job vacancies cannot be filled because of skills shortages.
- Mr Edkins is aware that last summer only a fifth of pupils gained five or more A to C GCSE grades - the second worst in the city.
- One carat equals one fifth of a gram or 0.2 grams.
- The report said that in West Virginia, the average income of the middle fifth of families increased five percent, which amounts to about $1,640.
- The cost of the vehicle is about a fifth of the price of a tram - about £1.7m.
- Their average length of stay in care is two to five years while one fifth stay for ten tears or more.
- We divided participants into fifths according to their intake of each type of fat.
- ‘Everyone knows that the population has been reduced by a fifth to a quarter,’ writes Glucksmann.
- Because measures of skinfold thickness varied significantly by sex we divided the distribution into fifths for men and women and used these in the analyses.
- Its research shows that a fifth of the motorists who were aware of the change in the law were wrong in their knowledge of exactly what this would comprise.
- Within 5 years, it will probably only take up a quarter or a fifth.
- Over a fifth of Google's five thousand employees are based in the municipality.
- Wages in the Czech Republic are about a fifth to a quarter of the wages paid in Germany.
- Imagine if Social Security reform brings the proportion of Americans holding financial assets from half to three quarters or four fifths.
- We'll divide the group into fifths, according to annual expenses.
- The number of organ transplants carried out in Scotland has dropped by almost a fifth in the past five years because of a growing shortage of suitable donors.
- So, two fifths of your starting five are not attending camp on time, 1 / 5th, not at all.
- Rotherham is hoping to shrug off its unenviable title of the car crime capital of South Yorkshire with a new crackdown that aims to slash vehicle crime by a fifth.
- One fifth of the nearly five million unemployed voted Left Party - that's averaged across East and West.

Phrases

take (or plead) the Fifth

(in the US) exercise the right, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, of refusing to answer questions in order to avoid incriminating oneself.
I'm sure his lawyers are telling him to take the Fifth
Example sentencesExamples
- Four years ago in Nagano, Japan, remember, Team Canada finished fourth and Team USA took the fifth - at least when it came to explaining how the furniture in the athletes' village got trashed.
- Lawyers note that having your lawyer send the message that you will take the fifth can often get you out of a grand jury appearance altogether or at least be the opening gambit in a negotiation with a prosecutor.
- You may have seen him taking the fifth before Congress.
- Does that order to cooperate amount to a bar on White House employees taking the fifth with investigators?
- Although I might not remember exactly what was said or done while in my true form, or any other guised form, I do know when someone is taking the fifth, if you follow what I am saying.
- Her taking the fifth amendment will be the story until the war starts.
- At this point one might want to take the fifth, although this stage is optional.

Derivatives

fifthly

adverbˈfɪfθliˈfɪ(f)θli

But most importantly fifthly, there are no miracle baits or rigs.
Example sentencesExamples
- And that, fifthly and finally, is exactly the chief offering that monastics can make to the wider world.
- And, fifthly, policy-making is not an event but is ‘ethereal, diffuse, haphazard and somewhat volatile.’
- But then fifthly, this righteousness is freely given but was not bought cheaply.
- But fifthly - what I call the fifth and the fatal flaw of fish farming - is the feed issue.

Definition of fifth in US English:

fifth

ordinal numberfi(f)THfɪ(f)θ

1Constituting number five in a sequence; 5th.
the fifth century BC
her mother had just given birth to another child, her fifth
the world's fifth-largest oil exporter
the fifth of November
Example sentencesExamples
- The starting point for the language that became English, and for his book, is the arrival in England in the fifth century of Germanic warrior tribes.
- The apartment was on the fifth floor of a five story brick building in a part of town that had once been much grander than it was now.
- This is now the fifth day, five days on, and we are waiting to know what happened to him and I, his mother, I need to know what happened to Anthony.
- By June 1806 Bowditch had read the first four of Laplace's five volumes (the fifth volume was not published by Laplace until 1825).
- Beware, though, as some allow only a limited number of region switches such that after perhaps five toggles, the fifth region code becomes fixed on the drive.
- Additional miscellaneous activities are also frequent apart from these major groupings, and can constitute a fifth category.
- These markets and institutions have changed dramatically in the five years since the fifth edition was published.
- In the 1990s the first woman Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, for example, was the critical fifth vote in more five to four decisions than anybody else.
- He looked at his watch for what seemed to be the fifth time in five minutes.
- After three minutes his sharp pass to Broadbent saw the ball quickly moved on to Mark Cain, who notched his fifth try in five games.
- Joe Nathan got the final two outs for his fifth save in five opportunities.
- They simply ran out of steam in the second half to slump to their fifth defeat out of five, a record that consigns them to the wooden spoon, their first wooden spoon in the competition since 2002.
- That day, when Ally had yet again defended his talent, he pitched horribly; giving up three runs in the fourth inning and another five in the fifth inning.
- The fifth day of a five day forecast is accurate 20% of the time and these guys are gonna tell me what the weather will be like a hundred years from now?
- The final independent invention of zero in India was long debated by scholars, but seems to be set around the middle of the fifth century.
- Seems I'm moving desks again - the fifth time in five years, which makes for a nice round average.
- It was a subtle touch, one I didn't notice until the opening sequence of the fifth episode - and by then it was too late.
- One of the most romantic ruins in Wiltshire, the castle was built in the late 14th century by the fifth Lord Lovel.
- The ‘mountain’ is named for the patron saint of Paris, who founded a convent there towards the end of the fifth century.
- There were 39 brands of light vehicles for sale in 1986, the fifth best year on record.
- In the fifth month you have five pairs (because the first pair of babies has become old enough to reproduce).
1. 1.1a fifth/one fifth Each of five equal parts into which something is or may be divided.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Birth weight for gestational age, divided into fifths, showed an association with later marital status for men but not women.
  One fifth of the nearly five million unemployed voted Left Party - that's averaged across East and West.
  The report said that in West Virginia, the average income of the middle fifth of families increased five percent, which amounts to about $1,640.
  So, two fifths of your starting five are not attending camp on time, 1 / 5th, not at all.
  Over a fifth of Google's five thousand employees are based in the municipality.
  Imagine if Social Security reform brings the proportion of Americans holding financial assets from half to three quarters or four fifths.
  And one of the county's commerce bosses claims one in five employers say a fifth of all current job vacancies cannot be filled because of skills shortages.
  Because measures of skinfold thickness varied significantly by sex we divided the distribution into fifths for men and women and used these in the analyses.
  We divided participants into fifths according to their intake of each type of fat.
  Its research shows that a fifth of the motorists who were aware of the change in the law were wrong in their knowledge of exactly what this would comprise.
  Within 5 years, it will probably only take up a quarter or a fifth.
  ‘Everyone knows that the population has been reduced by a fifth to a quarter,’ writes Glucksmann.
  The number of organ transplants carried out in Scotland has dropped by almost a fifth in the past five years because of a growing shortage of suitable donors.
  Wages in the Czech Republic are about a fifth to a quarter of the wages paid in Germany.
  Mr Edkins is aware that last summer only a fifth of pupils gained five or more A to C GCSE grades - the second worst in the city.
  One carat equals one fifth of a gram or 0.2 grams.
  The cost of the vehicle is about a fifth of the price of a tram - about £1.7m.
  We'll divide the group into fifths, according to annual expenses.
  Their average length of stay in care is two to five years while one fifth stay for ten tears or more.
  Rotherham is hoping to shrug off its unenviable title of the car crime capital of South Yorkshire with a new crackdown that aims to slash vehicle crime by a fifth.
2. 1.2 The fifth finisher or position in a race or competition.
  he finished fifth
  Example sentencesExamples
  Emmett ran a good race to finish in fifth place with a ‘Personal Best’ of 4 minutes 2 seconds.
  Clach climbed five places into fifth spot after a wash out in the Highland League, with a 2-0 triumph over north rivals Fort William.
  Her best this season in four races was a fifth place in Germany which left her in seventh place overall in the rankings.
  Without the drive-through penalty, Christian would have finished the race in fifth or sixth place.
  He finished the race in fifth place having started from 16th position on the grid.
  Assuming Jarrod Washburn, Ramon Ortiz, John Lackey, and Aaron Sele stay around, it could be quite a race for the fifth spot.
  A five-way competition for the fifth spot in the rotation has no real front-runner.
  One of our brave lads, Andrew Homan, went over the side and made short work of the net with a knife, but it cost us 25 minutes, finishing that race in fifth place in a dying wind.
  He rejoined the race in sixth place but fought back to finish in fifth place and had to settle for picking up championship points.
  Like all of the fastest cars at Michigan, he came up short in the fuel mileage game but still raced to a fifth place finish.
  The club expects strong competition for the fifth spot.
  The winner gets 15 points, the second 10, the third is awarded seven, the fourth gets five and the fifth earns three.
  But fifth place, five seconds behind the American, will have given him a huge boost in confidence for the tests that lie ahead.
  We were ranked fifth going into the race and came out third with a new British record.
  This created the strange statistic that City finished fifth bottom, but they actually had a positive goal difference.
  At the Leinster Schools held in Dublin, Cheryl Nolan won gold in the junior 1,500m and Sinead Kelly competing in the same race finished a credible fifth place.
  Jane, who was fifth last year, led the way for Knavesmire to collect the ladies team prize by taking runner-up slot in 84-31.
  He has risen from the fifth best-placed Australian to being their top ranked player and if he can maintain his remarkable run, it will only be a short time before he climbs into the top ten.
  He piloted his race car to a fifth place finish in race two of the weekend.
  Co-captain Mike Logue earned OUA all-star status at the competition with a fifth place finish, the highest by a Warrior.
3. 1.3 (in some vehicles) the fifth (and typically highest) in a sequence of gears.
  in my panic I changed from third to fifth
  Example sentencesExamples
  Forget swanning along in top or even fifth gear all day.
  At some point, you'll end up selecting fifth instead of third.
  You long for the moment when you can cut the din by going into fifth… but when you do, you find yourself on another hill, virtually grinding to a halt.
  I found this engine a bit on the small side, but that is just a personal thing as it is more than capable of motorway cruising and has enough power for overtaking, even in fifth.
  Once he was in fifth gear he just cruised, hardly paying attention to his surroundings.
  Outside built up areas, the car can be driven on just two gears, fourth and fifth, so flexible is the engine.
  These figures are achieved high in the rev range, and with a fairly relaxed fifth gear a quick shift back to fourth is needed for quick overtaking.
  Despite being geared to reach its top speed in the fifth of its seven gears, you can never quite escape the V10's voice.
  And in fifth gear it simply didn't have enough oomph to overcome gravity.
  Brett Sales yanked the Cavalier's gear down from fifth into fourth to overtake the van in front of him before he reached the next roundabout.
4. 1.4 Fifthly (used to introduce a fifth point or reason)
  fourth, it can aid the process of life review, and fifth, it is an enjoyable and stimulating experience
5. 1.5Music An interval spanning five consecutive notes in a diatonic scale, in particular (also perfect fifth) an interval of three whole steps and a half step (e.g., C to G)
  strings tuned a fifth apart
  Example sentencesExamples
  Notes separated by intervals of a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth have always been the most important ‘consonances’ in western music.
  The strings of a four-string cello are usually tuned in fifths.
  And several times in the book a diminished fifth rather than an augmented fourth is called a tritone.
  The notes in a perfect fifth, for example, have a frequency ratio 3: 2.
  Open fifths, fourths and tritones, modality and whole-tone scales abound.
6. 1.6Music The note which is higher by a fifth than the root of a diatonic scale.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The third of a triad may be emphasized above its root or fifth to create a ‘sweeter’ quality in a dolce passage.
  The crisp phrases of the robust seventeen-bar ground, with its harmonically stable fourths and fifths and harmonious consort of bass and triadic chords, clearly assert the traditional lineaments of the form.
  Wonderful old songs, and slowly my fingers get used to playing blues scales, blue notes and the squashed sliding thirds and fifths of this old music fusing Irish, Scottish, French, African and English melodies.
  The final movement is based on chords of parallel fifths.
7. 1.7a fifth ofUS informal A fifth of a gallon, as a measure of liquor, or a bottle of this capacity.
  a fifth of whiskey
  Example sentencesExamples
  Should I just down a fifth of vodka and go to sleep for several hours, and hope they are back by the time I lapse out of unconsciousness?
  We have enough left to splurge on a fifth of Captain Morgan's and a case of Black Label.
  Witnesses later confirmed Bill stopped at the liquor store at the county line and downed a fifth of whiskey before driving into town.
  I guess shelter should be my first priority, and then about a fifth of some liquor that tastes about as nasty as it smells.
  He had as good a chance of chipping into my drinking money as a Central Park wino hitting up the president of the Anti-Saloon League for a fifth of bourbon.
  This is really good news for us, ladies: If we have to run around in those ridiculous outfits, at least we can still take the edge off with a fifth of vodka.
  Much of the crowd appeared dumbfounded as Franken took the microphone and sounded like he'd just downed a fifth and maybe smoked a little something, too.
  While at the party, I managed to polish off a fifth of Jose in less than two hours, so I had a few minutes of relative coherence before I sailed off into oblivion.
  With some help from the others, Sal buys a fifth of whiskey to share.
  Rock had downed eight, Ally seven and they'd also gone through a bottle of wine and half of a fifth of vodka.
  The first thing he did was stop in a liquor store to buy a fifth of rye whiskey.
  Dog-Eyes had pulled a fifth of whiskey from his coat and was offering her a hit.
8. 1.8 The fifth grade of a school.
  Example sentencesExamples
  After leaving school in the fifth grade and working odd jobs in South Texas, Jackson started boxing as a sparring partner.
  Each of the fifth grade teachers yesterday gave a short speech before handing the certificates to each of their students.
  I wonder what the song of the graduating fifth grade class of '04 will be?
  I would suffer so that the fifth grade can have their class picnic.
  Of the 1993 cohort that entered primary school in developing countries, nearly one-fourth failed to reach the fifth grade.
  In fifth grade, almost our entire class entered the school spelling bee, so I did too.
  ‘When you were in the fifth grade, your biggest worry was maybe a geography test,’ he said.
  Pearl taught school for forty years, usually fifth grade.
  ‘I've seen such growth in her,’ she says of her child, now entering fifth grade.
  I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.
  I had the pleasure of meeting DJ's fifth grade teacher last night.
  She was the tallest person in our fifth grade class.
  In fifth grade, my brilliance reached new heights.
  The program included at least two joint field trips for both grades with a five-day camp stay for the fifth grade classrooms.
  I never attended a real school with any regularity until the fifth grade.
  Or, at the very least, we reserve the right to stop watching football on Sundays with that buddy from the fifth grade.
  A strict Waldorf school would use no textbooks through the fifth grade.
  In fifth grade, he cut off one of my brown curls to keep in his desk.
  Joey was, said his mother, a straight-A student through fifth grade.
  It wasn't for nothing he had been in love with her since fifth grade.

Phrases

take (or plead) the Fifth

(in the US) exercise the right, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, of refusing to answer questions in order to avoid incriminating oneself.
Why is she taking the Fifth if she didn't do anything wrong?
Example sentencesExamples
- Although I might not remember exactly what was said or done while in my true form, or any other guised form, I do know when someone is taking the fifth, if you follow what I am saying.
- At this point one might want to take the fifth, although this stage is optional.
- Does that order to cooperate amount to a bar on White House employees taking the fifth with investigators?
- Lawyers note that having your lawyer send the message that you will take the fifth can often get you out of a grand jury appearance altogether or at least be the opening gambit in a negotiation with a prosecutor.
- Her taking the fifth amendment will be the story until the war starts.
- Four years ago in Nagano, Japan, remember, Team Canada finished fourth and Team USA took the fifth - at least when it came to explaining how the furniture in the athletes' village got trashed.
- You may have seen him taking the fifth before Congress.

单词	fifth
释义	Definition of fifth in English: fifth ordinal number fɪfθfɪ(f)θ 1Constituting number five in a sequence; 5th. the fifth century BC her mother had just given birth to another child, her fifth the world's fifth-largest oil exporter the fifth of November Example sentencesExamples The starting point for the language that became English, and for his book, is the arrival in England in the fifth century of Germanic warrior tribes. In the 1990s the first woman Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, for example, was the critical fifth vote in more five to four decisions than anybody else. They simply ran out of steam in the second half to slump to their fifth defeat out of five, a record that consigns them to the wooden spoon, their first wooden spoon in the competition since 2002. These markets and institutions have changed dramatically in the five years since the fifth edition was published. The ‘mountain’ is named for the patron saint of Paris, who founded a convent there towards the end of the fifth century. The final independent invention of zero in India was long debated by scholars, but seems to be set around the middle of the fifth century. There were 39 brands of light vehicles for sale in 1986, the fifth best year on record. The apartment was on the fifth floor of a five story brick building in a part of town that had once been much grander than it was now. Additional miscellaneous activities are also frequent apart from these major groupings, and can constitute a fifth category. By June 1806 Bowditch had read the first four of Laplace's five volumes (the fifth volume was not published by Laplace until 1825). The fifth day of a five day forecast is accurate 20% of the time and these guys are gonna tell me what the weather will be like a hundred years from now? It was a subtle touch, one I didn't notice until the opening sequence of the fifth episode - and by then it was too late. This is now the fifth day, five days on, and we are waiting to know what happened to him and I, his mother, I need to know what happened to Anthony. In the fifth month you have five pairs (because the first pair of babies has become old enough to reproduce). One of the most romantic ruins in Wiltshire, the castle was built in the late 14th century by the fifth Lord Lovel. Joe Nathan got the final two outs for his fifth save in five opportunities. Beware, though, as some allow only a limited number of region switches such that after perhaps five toggles, the fifth region code becomes fixed on the drive. That day, when Ally had yet again defended his talent, he pitched horribly; giving up three runs in the fourth inning and another five in the fifth inning. After three minutes his sharp pass to Broadbent saw the ball quickly moved on to Mark Cain, who notched his fifth try in five games. He looked at his watch for what seemed to be the fifth time in five minutes. Seems I'm moving desks again - the fifth time in five years, which makes for a nice round average. 1.1 The fifth finisher or position in a race or competition. he finished fifth Example sentencesExamples At the Leinster Schools held in Dublin, Cheryl Nolan won gold in the junior 1,500m and Sinead Kelly competing in the same race finished a credible fifth place. We were ranked fifth going into the race and came out third with a new British record. A five-way competition for the fifth spot in the rotation has no real front-runner. Emmett ran a good race to finish in fifth place with a ‘Personal Best’ of 4 minutes 2 seconds. The club expects strong competition for the fifth spot. The winner gets 15 points, the second 10, the third is awarded seven, the fourth gets five and the fifth earns three. Her best this season in four races was a fifth place in Germany which left her in seventh place overall in the rankings. But fifth place, five seconds behind the American, will have given him a huge boost in confidence for the tests that lie ahead. One of our brave lads, Andrew Homan, went over the side and made short work of the net with a knife, but it cost us 25 minutes, finishing that race in fifth place in a dying wind. This created the strange statistic that City finished fifth bottom, but they actually had a positive goal difference. Co-captain Mike Logue earned OUA all-star status at the competition with a fifth place finish, the highest by a Warrior. Jane, who was fifth last year, led the way for Knavesmire to collect the ladies team prize by taking runner-up slot in 84-31. Clach climbed five places into fifth spot after a wash out in the Highland League, with a 2-0 triumph over north rivals Fort William. He finished the race in fifth place having started from 16th position on the grid. He rejoined the race in sixth place but fought back to finish in fifth place and had to settle for picking up championship points. He has risen from the fifth best-placed Australian to being their top ranked player and if he can maintain his remarkable run, it will only be a short time before he climbs into the top ten. Assuming Jarrod Washburn, Ramon Ortiz, John Lackey, and Aaron Sele stay around, it could be quite a race for the fifth spot. Without the drive-through penalty, Christian would have finished the race in fifth or sixth place. Like all of the fastest cars at Michigan, he came up short in the fuel mileage game but still raced to a fifth place finish. He piloted his race car to a fifth place finish in race two of the weekend. 1.2 (in some vehicles) the fifth (and typically highest) in a sequence of gears. in my panic I changed from third to fifth Example sentencesExamples These figures are achieved high in the rev range, and with a fairly relaxed fifth gear a quick shift back to fourth is needed for quick overtaking. And in fifth gear it simply didn't have enough oomph to overcome gravity. You long for the moment when you can cut the din by going into fifth… but when you do, you find yourself on another hill, virtually grinding to a halt. At some point, you'll end up selecting fifth instead of third. Forget swanning along in top or even fifth gear all day. Once he was in fifth gear he just cruised, hardly paying attention to his surroundings. I found this engine a bit on the small side, but that is just a personal thing as it is more than capable of motorway cruising and has enough power for overtaking, even in fifth. Brett Sales yanked the Cavalier's gear down from fifth into fourth to overtake the van in front of him before he reached the next roundabout. Outside built up areas, the car can be driven on just two gears, fourth and fifth, so flexible is the engine. Despite being geared to reach its top speed in the fifth of its seven gears, you can never quite escape the V10's voice. 1.3British The fifth form of a school or college. Example sentencesExamples In the Construction Studies room fifth and sixth class primary school visitors will be able to participate in a wood class helped by the present first years. When the fun was over, the children thanked Peter Millen and fifth class teacher Maria Walsh for organising the event for them. 1.4 Fifthly (used to introduce a fifth point or reason) fourth, it can aid the process of life review, and fifth, it is an enjoyable and stimulating experience 1.5Music An interval spanning five consecutive notes in a diatonic scale, in particular (also perfect fifth) an interval of three tones and a semitone (e.g. C to G) strings tuned a fifth apart Example sentencesExamples The notes in a perfect fifth, for example, have a frequency ratio 3: 2. Open fifths, fourths and tritones, modality and whole-tone scales abound. Notes separated by intervals of a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth have always been the most important ‘consonances’ in western music. And several times in the book a diminished fifth rather than an augmented fourth is called a tritone. The strings of a four-string cello are usually tuned in fifths. 1.6Music The note which is higher by a fifth than the root of a diatonic scale. Example sentencesExamples The final movement is based on chords of parallel fifths. The crisp phrases of the robust seventeen-bar ground, with its harmonically stable fourths and fifths and harmonious consort of bass and triadic chords, clearly assert the traditional lineaments of the form. The third of a triad may be emphasized above its root or fifth to create a ‘sweeter’ quality in a dolce passage. Wonderful old songs, and slowly my fingers get used to playing blues scales, blue notes and the squashed sliding thirds and fifths of this old music fusing Irish, Scottish, French, African and English melodies. 1.7US informal A fifth of a gallon, as a measure of alcoholic drink, or a bottle of this capacity. a fifth of whisky Example sentencesExamples Dog-Eyes had pulled a fifth of whiskey from his coat and was offering her a hit. I guess shelter should be my first priority, and then about a fifth of some liquor that tastes about as nasty as it smells. We have enough left to splurge on a fifth of Captain Morgan's and a case of Black Label. Rock had downed eight, Ally seven and they'd also gone through a bottle of wine and half of a fifth of vodka. Should I just down a fifth of vodka and go to sleep for several hours, and hope they are back by the time I lapse out of unconsciousness? While at the party, I managed to polish off a fifth of Jose in less than two hours, so I had a few minutes of relative coherence before I sailed off into oblivion. Witnesses later confirmed Bill stopped at the liquor store at the county line and downed a fifth of whiskey before driving into town. With some help from the others, Sal buys a fifth of whiskey to share. This is really good news for us, ladies: If we have to run around in those ridiculous outfits, at least we can still take the edge off with a fifth of vodka. Much of the crowd appeared dumbfounded as Franken took the microphone and sounded like he'd just downed a fifth and maybe smoked a little something, too. He had as good a chance of chipping into my drinking money as a Central Park wino hitting up the president of the Anti-Saloon League for a fifth of bourbon. The first thing he did was stop in a liquor store to buy a fifth of rye whiskey. 2Each of five equal parts into which something is or may be divided. Example sentencesExamples Birth weight for gestational age, divided into fifths, showed an association with later marital status for men but not women. And one of the county's commerce bosses claims one in five employers say a fifth of all current job vacancies cannot be filled because of skills shortages. Mr Edkins is aware that last summer only a fifth of pupils gained five or more A to C GCSE grades - the second worst in the city. One carat equals one fifth of a gram or 0.2 grams. The report said that in West Virginia, the average income of the middle fifth of families increased five percent, which amounts to about $1,640. The cost of the vehicle is about a fifth of the price of a tram - about £1.7m. Their average length of stay in care is two to five years while one fifth stay for ten tears or more. We divided participants into fifths according to their intake of each type of fat. ‘Everyone knows that the population has been reduced by a fifth to a quarter,’ writes Glucksmann. Because measures of skinfold thickness varied significantly by sex we divided the distribution into fifths for men and women and used these in the analyses. Its research shows that a fifth of the motorists who were aware of the change in the law were wrong in their knowledge of exactly what this would comprise. Within 5 years, it will probably only take up a quarter or a fifth. Over a fifth of Google's five thousand employees are based in the municipality. Wages in the Czech Republic are about a fifth to a quarter of the wages paid in Germany. Imagine if Social Security reform brings the proportion of Americans holding financial assets from half to three quarters or four fifths. We'll divide the group into fifths, according to annual expenses. The number of organ transplants carried out in Scotland has dropped by almost a fifth in the past five years because of a growing shortage of suitable donors. So, two fifths of your starting five are not attending camp on time, 1 / 5th, not at all. Rotherham is hoping to shrug off its unenviable title of the car crime capital of South Yorkshire with a new crackdown that aims to slash vehicle crime by a fifth. One fifth of the nearly five million unemployed voted Left Party - that's averaged across East and West. Phrases take (or plead) the Fifth (in the US) exercise the right, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, of refusing to answer questions in order to avoid incriminating oneself. I'm sure his lawyers are telling him to take the Fifth Example sentencesExamples Four years ago in Nagano, Japan, remember, Team Canada finished fourth and Team USA took the fifth - at least when it came to explaining how the furniture in the athletes' village got trashed. Lawyers note that having your lawyer send the message that you will take the fifth can often get you out of a grand jury appearance altogether or at least be the opening gambit in a negotiation with a prosecutor. You may have seen him taking the fifth before Congress. Does that order to cooperate amount to a bar on White House employees taking the fifth with investigators? Although I might not remember exactly what was said or done while in my true form, or any other guised form, I do know when someone is taking the fifth, if you follow what I am saying. Her taking the fifth amendment will be the story until the war starts. At this point one might want to take the fifth, although this stage is optional. Derivatives fifthly adverbˈfɪfθliˈfɪ(f)θli But most importantly fifthly, there are no miracle baits or rigs. Example sentencesExamples And that, fifthly and finally, is exactly the chief offering that monastics can make to the wider world. And, fifthly, policy-making is not an event but is ‘ethereal, diffuse, haphazard and somewhat volatile.’ But then fifthly, this righteousness is freely given but was not bought cheaply. But fifthly - what I call the fifth and the fatal flaw of fish farming - is the feed issue. ord.1 phr. Definition of fifth in US English: fifth ordinal numberfi(f)THfɪ(f)θ 1Constituting number five in a sequence; 5th. the fifth century BC her mother had just given birth to another child, her fifth the world's fifth-largest oil exporter the fifth of November Example sentencesExamples The starting point for the language that became English, and for his book, is the arrival in England in the fifth century of Germanic warrior tribes. The apartment was on the fifth floor of a five story brick building in a part of town that had once been much grander than it was now. This is now the fifth day, five days on, and we are waiting to know what happened to him and I, his mother, I need to know what happened to Anthony. By June 1806 Bowditch had read the first four of Laplace's five volumes (the fifth volume was not published by Laplace until 1825). Beware, though, as some allow only a limited number of region switches such that after perhaps five toggles, the fifth region code becomes fixed on the drive. Additional miscellaneous activities are also frequent apart from these major groupings, and can constitute a fifth category. These markets and institutions have changed dramatically in the five years since the fifth edition was published. In the 1990s the first woman Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, for example, was the critical fifth vote in more five to four decisions than anybody else. He looked at his watch for what seemed to be the fifth time in five minutes. After three minutes his sharp pass to Broadbent saw the ball quickly moved on to Mark Cain, who notched his fifth try in five games. Joe Nathan got the final two outs for his fifth save in five opportunities. They simply ran out of steam in the second half to slump to their fifth defeat out of five, a record that consigns them to the wooden spoon, their first wooden spoon in the competition since 2002. That day, when Ally had yet again defended his talent, he pitched horribly; giving up three runs in the fourth inning and another five in the fifth inning. The fifth day of a five day forecast is accurate 20% of the time and these guys are gonna tell me what the weather will be like a hundred years from now? The final independent invention of zero in India was long debated by scholars, but seems to be set around the middle of the fifth century. Seems I'm moving desks again - the fifth time in five years, which makes for a nice round average. It was a subtle touch, one I didn't notice until the opening sequence of the fifth episode - and by then it was too late. One of the most romantic ruins in Wiltshire, the castle was built in the late 14th century by the fifth Lord Lovel. The ‘mountain’ is named for the patron saint of Paris, who founded a convent there towards the end of the fifth century. There were 39 brands of light vehicles for sale in 1986, the fifth best year on record. In the fifth month you have five pairs (because the first pair of babies has become old enough to reproduce). 1.1a fifth/one fifth Each of five equal parts into which something is or may be divided. Example sentencesExamples Birth weight for gestational age, divided into fifths, showed an association with later marital status for men but not women. One fifth of the nearly five million unemployed voted Left Party - that's averaged across East and West. The report said that in West Virginia, the average income of the middle fifth of families increased five percent, which amounts to about $1,640. So, two fifths of your starting five are not attending camp on time, 1 / 5th, not at all. Over a fifth of Google's five thousand employees are based in the municipality. Imagine if Social Security reform brings the proportion of Americans holding financial assets from half to three quarters or four fifths. And one of the county's commerce bosses claims one in five employers say a fifth of all current job vacancies cannot be filled because of skills shortages. Because measures of skinfold thickness varied significantly by sex we divided the distribution into fifths for men and women and used these in the analyses. We divided participants into fifths according to their intake of each type of fat. Its research shows that a fifth of the motorists who were aware of the change in the law were wrong in their knowledge of exactly what this would comprise. Within 5 years, it will probably only take up a quarter or a fifth. ‘Everyone knows that the population has been reduced by a fifth to a quarter,’ writes Glucksmann. The number of organ transplants carried out in Scotland has dropped by almost a fifth in the past five years because of a growing shortage of suitable donors. Wages in the Czech Republic are about a fifth to a quarter of the wages paid in Germany. Mr Edkins is aware that last summer only a fifth of pupils gained five or more A to C GCSE grades - the second worst in the city. One carat equals one fifth of a gram or 0.2 grams. The cost of the vehicle is about a fifth of the price of a tram - about £1.7m. We'll divide the group into fifths, according to annual expenses. Their average length of stay in care is two to five years while one fifth stay for ten tears or more. Rotherham is hoping to shrug off its unenviable title of the car crime capital of South Yorkshire with a new crackdown that aims to slash vehicle crime by a fifth. 1.2 The fifth finisher or position in a race or competition. he finished fifth Example sentencesExamples Emmett ran a good race to finish in fifth place with a ‘Personal Best’ of 4 minutes 2 seconds. Clach climbed five places into fifth spot after a wash out in the Highland League, with a 2-0 triumph over north rivals Fort William. Her best this season in four races was a fifth place in Germany which left her in seventh place overall in the rankings. Without the drive-through penalty, Christian would have finished the race in fifth or sixth place. He finished the race in fifth place having started from 16th position on the grid. Assuming Jarrod Washburn, Ramon Ortiz, John Lackey, and Aaron Sele stay around, it could be quite a race for the fifth spot. A five-way competition for the fifth spot in the rotation has no real front-runner. One of our brave lads, Andrew Homan, went over the side and made short work of the net with a knife, but it cost us 25 minutes, finishing that race in fifth place in a dying wind. He rejoined the race in sixth place but fought back to finish in fifth place and had to settle for picking up championship points. Like all of the fastest cars at Michigan, he came up short in the fuel mileage game but still raced to a fifth place finish. The club expects strong competition for the fifth spot. The winner gets 15 points, the second 10, the third is awarded seven, the fourth gets five and the fifth earns three. But fifth place, five seconds behind the American, will have given him a huge boost in confidence for the tests that lie ahead. We were ranked fifth going into the race and came out third with a new British record. This created the strange statistic that City finished fifth bottom, but they actually had a positive goal difference. At the Leinster Schools held in Dublin, Cheryl Nolan won gold in the junior 1,500m and Sinead Kelly competing in the same race finished a credible fifth place. Jane, who was fifth last year, led the way for Knavesmire to collect the ladies team prize by taking runner-up slot in 84-31. He has risen from the fifth best-placed Australian to being their top ranked player and if he can maintain his remarkable run, it will only be a short time before he climbs into the top ten. He piloted his race car to a fifth place finish in race two of the weekend. Co-captain Mike Logue earned OUA all-star status at the competition with a fifth place finish, the highest by a Warrior. 1.3 (in some vehicles) the fifth (and typically highest) in a sequence of gears. in my panic I changed from third to fifth Example sentencesExamples Forget swanning along in top or even fifth gear all day. At some point, you'll end up selecting fifth instead of third. You long for the moment when you can cut the din by going into fifth… but when you do, you find yourself on another hill, virtually grinding to a halt. I found this engine a bit on the small side, but that is just a personal thing as it is more than capable of motorway cruising and has enough power for overtaking, even in fifth. Once he was in fifth gear he just cruised, hardly paying attention to his surroundings. Outside built up areas, the car can be driven on just two gears, fourth and fifth, so flexible is the engine. These figures are achieved high in the rev range, and with a fairly relaxed fifth gear a quick shift back to fourth is needed for quick overtaking. Despite being geared to reach its top speed in the fifth of its seven gears, you can never quite escape the V10's voice. And in fifth gear it simply didn't have enough oomph to overcome gravity. Brett Sales yanked the Cavalier's gear down from fifth into fourth to overtake the van in front of him before he reached the next roundabout. 1.4 Fifthly (used to introduce a fifth point or reason) fourth, it can aid the process of life review, and fifth, it is an enjoyable and stimulating experience 1.5Music An interval spanning five consecutive notes in a diatonic scale, in particular (also perfect fifth) an interval of three whole steps and a half step (e.g., C to G) strings tuned a fifth apart Example sentencesExamples Notes separated by intervals of a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth have always been the most important ‘consonances’ in western music. The strings of a four-string cello are usually tuned in fifths. And several times in the book a diminished fifth rather than an augmented fourth is called a tritone. The notes in a perfect fifth, for example, have a frequency ratio 3: 2. Open fifths, fourths and tritones, modality and whole-tone scales abound. 1.6Music The note which is higher by a fifth than the root of a diatonic scale. Example sentencesExamples The third of a triad may be emphasized above its root or fifth to create a ‘sweeter’ quality in a dolce passage. The crisp phrases of the robust seventeen-bar ground, with its harmonically stable fourths and fifths and harmonious consort of bass and triadic chords, clearly assert the traditional lineaments of the form. Wonderful old songs, and slowly my fingers get used to playing blues scales, blue notes and the squashed sliding thirds and fifths of this old music fusing Irish, Scottish, French, African and English melodies. The final movement is based on chords of parallel fifths. 1.7a fifth ofUS informal A fifth of a gallon, as a measure of liquor, or a bottle of this capacity. a fifth of whiskey Example sentencesExamples Should I just down a fifth of vodka and go to sleep for several hours, and hope they are back by the time I lapse out of unconsciousness? We have enough left to splurge on a fifth of Captain Morgan's and a case of Black Label. Witnesses later confirmed Bill stopped at the liquor store at the county line and downed a fifth of whiskey before driving into town. I guess shelter should be my first priority, and then about a fifth of some liquor that tastes about as nasty as it smells. He had as good a chance of chipping into my drinking money as a Central Park wino hitting up the president of the Anti-Saloon League for a fifth of bourbon. This is really good news for us, ladies: If we have to run around in those ridiculous outfits, at least we can still take the edge off with a fifth of vodka. Much of the crowd appeared dumbfounded as Franken took the microphone and sounded like he'd just downed a fifth and maybe smoked a little something, too. While at the party, I managed to polish off a fifth of Jose in less than two hours, so I had a few minutes of relative coherence before I sailed off into oblivion. With some help from the others, Sal buys a fifth of whiskey to share. Rock had downed eight, Ally seven and they'd also gone through a bottle of wine and half of a fifth of vodka. The first thing he did was stop in a liquor store to buy a fifth of rye whiskey. Dog-Eyes had pulled a fifth of whiskey from his coat and was offering her a hit. 1.8 The fifth grade of a school. Example sentencesExamples After leaving school in the fifth grade and working odd jobs in South Texas, Jackson started boxing as a sparring partner. Each of the fifth grade teachers yesterday gave a short speech before handing the certificates to each of their students. I wonder what the song of the graduating fifth grade class of '04 will be? I would suffer so that the fifth grade can have their class picnic. Of the 1993 cohort that entered primary school in developing countries, nearly one-fourth failed to reach the fifth grade. In fifth grade, almost our entire class entered the school spelling bee, so I did too. ‘When you were in the fifth grade, your biggest worry was maybe a geography test,’ he said. Pearl taught school for forty years, usually fifth grade. ‘I've seen such growth in her,’ she says of her child, now entering fifth grade. I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends. I had the pleasure of meeting DJ's fifth grade teacher last night. She was the tallest person in our fifth grade class. In fifth grade, my brilliance reached new heights. The program included at least two joint field trips for both grades with a five-day camp stay for the fifth grade classrooms. I never attended a real school with any regularity until the fifth grade. Or, at the very least, we reserve the right to stop watching football on Sundays with that buddy from the fifth grade. A strict Waldorf school would use no textbooks through the fifth grade. In fifth grade, he cut off one of my brown curls to keep in his desk. Joey was, said his mother, a straight-A student through fifth grade. It wasn't for nothing he had been in love with her since fifth grade. Phrases take (or plead) the Fifth (in the US) exercise the right, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, of refusing to answer questions in order to avoid incriminating oneself. Why is she taking the Fifth if she didn't do anything wrong? Example sentencesExamples Although I might not remember exactly what was said or done while in my true form, or any other guised form, I do know when someone is taking the fifth, if you follow what I am saying. At this point one might want to take the fifth, although this stage is optional. Does that order to cooperate amount to a bar on White House employees taking the fifth with investigators? Lawyers note that having your lawyer send the message that you will take the fifth can often get you out of a grand jury appearance altogether or at least be the opening gambit in a negotiation with a prosecutor. Her taking the fifth amendment will be the story until the war starts. Four years ago in Nagano, Japan, remember, Team Canada finished fourth and Team USA took the fifth - at least when it came to explaining how the furniture in the athletes' village got trashed. You may have seen him taking the fifth before Congress. ord.1 phr.
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