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5TH
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position
Synonyms:
5th; fifth
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples:
A bipolar EKG lead with the right thoracic limb electrode placed on the manubrium and left thoracic limb electrode placed at the surface marking of the V5 position (just above the 5th interspace in the anterior axillary line).
(Lead Site CM5, NCI Thesaurus)
Double bonds for docosatrienoic acid can be originating from either the (3rd, 6th and 9th), the (5th, 11th and 17th), the (7th, 13th and 19th) or the (9th, 12th and 15th) positions from the methyl end.
(Docosatrienoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
5th, If an express requires extraordinary despatch, the man-mountain shall be obliged to carry, in his pocket, the messenger and horse a six days journey, once in every moon, and return the said messenger back (if so required) safe to our imperial presence.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
On the 5th of November, which was the beginning of summer in those parts, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within half a cable’s length of the ship; but the wind was so strong, that we were driven directly upon it, and immediately split.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It is an old time-table now, disintegrating at its folds and headed "This schedule in effect July 5th, 1922."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
