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NINTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One part in nine equal parts
Synonyms:
ninth; one-ninth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("ninth" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Position nine in a countable series of things
Example:
going into the ninth they were a run ahead
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("ninth" is a kind of...):
rank (relative status)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position
Synonyms:
9th; ninth
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples:
While the new theory is not the first to propose that the gravitational forces of a massive disc made of small objects could avoid the need for a ninth planet, it is the first such theory which is able to explain the significant features of the observed orbits while accounting for the mass and gravity of the other eight planets in our solar system.
(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)
The ninth cranial nerve.
(Glossopharyngeal Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)
On the ninth day after leaving the canoes, having done, as I reckon, about a hundred and twenty miles, we began to emerge from the trees, which had grown smaller until they were mere shrubs.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Woodhouse considered eight persons at dinner together as the utmost that his nerves could bear—and here would be a ninth—and Emma apprehended that it would be a ninth very much out of humour at not being able to come even to Hartfield for forty-eight hours without falling in with a dinner-party.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She was preparing for her ninth lying-in; and after bewailing the circumstance, and imploring their countenance as sponsors to the expected child, she could not conceal how important she felt they might be to the future maintenance of the eight already in being.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale for this pretty flower; and eight long days he sought for it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morning, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the middle of it was a large dewdrop, as big as a costly pearl.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Florence will brighten to ninth magnitude in late August and early September, when it will be visible in small telescopes for several nights as it moves through the constellations Piscis Austrinus, Capricornus, Aquarius and Delphinus.
(Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1, NASA)
Mars, circulating in your ninth house of travel all month and until January 3, suggests you might go on a long trip overseas at some point in December.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
This type of clustering cannot be explained by our existing eight-planet solar system architecture and has led to some astronomers hypothesising that the unusual orbits could be influenced by the existence of an as-yet-unknown ninth planet.
(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)
As you see, this month will give you a full array of stimulating matters that come under your ninth house, and one or two will apply to you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
