英语词汇“take the Fifth”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

take the Fifth

释义

fifth /fifth/

adjective

Last of five
Next after the fourth
Equal to one of five equal parts

noun

One of five equal parts
A person or thing in fifth position
An interval of four (conventionally called five) diatonic degrees (music)
A tone at that interval from another
A combination of two tones separated by that interval
(with cap) the Fifth Amendment (US)

ORIGIN: OE fīfta, assimilated to other ordinals in -th

fifthˈly adverb

In the fifth place

Fifth Amendment noun

An amendment to the US constitution which allows a person on trial not to testify against himself or herself and forbids a second trial if a person has been acquitted in a first

fifth column noun

People within a country, etc who sympathize, and will act, with its enemies (expression used by a Spanish insurgent general when four columns were advancing upon Madrid)

fifth columnist /kolˈəm-ist/ noun

fifth generation noun (computing)

The type of computer which incorporates aspects of artificial intelligence

fifthˈ-generātion adjective

Fifthˈ-monarchism noun

Fifthˈ-monarchist noun

Fifth-monarchy men plural noun (historical)

An extreme sect at the time of the Puritan revolution, who looked for a new reign of Christ on earth in succession to Daniel's four great monarchies of Antichrist

fifth wheel noun

The spare wheel of a four-wheeled vehicle
A coupling on an articulated vehicle that allows the towing of a trailer
A superfluous or useless person or thing (informal)

plead or take the Fifth (US informal)

To refuse to testify, in accordance with the Fifth Amendment

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