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FIFTEEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("fifteen" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Derivation:
fifteen (being one more than fourteen)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being one more than fourteen
Synonyms:
15; fifteen; xv
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Derivation:
fifteen (the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one)
Context examples:
From nineteen they were already reduced to fifteen, two others were wounded, and one at least—the man shot beside the gun—severely wounded, if he were not dead.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Two and thirty of the seniors and fifteen of the novices, most holy father.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The village street was packed with people, for they had been sleeping twelve and fifteen in a room, whilst hundreds of gentlemen had spent the night in their carriages.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The multi-subunit PA700 complex binds two sites of the 20S proteasome and is composed of at least six related ATPases and approximately fifteen non-ATPase polypeptides.
(PA700 Regulatory Module, NCI Thesaurus)
I left fifteen hundred pounds with my wife, and fixed her in a good house at Redriff.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It happened that, on the very day she was fifteen years old, the king and queen were not at home, and she was left alone in the palace.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The fifteen subfamilies are HESPEROMYINAE (New World mice and rats), Cricetinae, Spalacinae, Myospalacinae, Lophiomyinae, Platacanthomyinae, Nesomyinae, Otomyinae, Rhizomyinae, MICROTINAE (Arvicolinae), GERBILLINAE, Dendromurinae, Cricetomyinae, Murinae (Old World mice and rats), and Hydromyinae.
(Muridae, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The quantity of micrograms in a volume of fifteen milliliters of a substance.
(Microgram per Fifteen Milliliters, NCI Thesaurus)
Fifteen patients successfully stopped immunosuppression medications a year after the transplant.
(Stem cell transplant reverses sickle cell disease in adults, NIH)
