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sixteen(dictionary)
sixteen(dictionary)
Sweet Sixteen - Bingo(gambling)
FOUR-SIXTEEN Credit Union(finance)
Sixteen-Yard Hit - Field Hockey(gambling)
dentition(dictionary)
Dentition(health)
first dentition(medicine)
Dentition(medicine)

dentition, mixed (medicine) and sixteen (iou)


dentition, mixed (medicine)


dentition, mixed


The complement of teeth in the jaws after the eruption of some of the permanent teeth but before all the deciduous teeth are absent.


sixteen (iou)



sixteen adjective & noun (cardinal numeral).
[Old English s(i)extiene, syx-, sex- = Old Frisian sextine, Old Saxon se(h)stein (Dutch zestien), Old High German seh(s)zen (German sechszehn), Old Norse sextan, from Germanic base of SIX, -TEEN. Aphet. to STEEN adjective.]
A. adjective.
One more than fifteen (a cardinal numeral represented by 16 in Arabic numerals, xvi, XVI in roman). OE.
J. Trollope The office was a single room about sixteen feet square.
= SIXTEENTH adjective. LME-L17.
b. noun.
One more than fifteen as an abstract number; the symbols or figures representing this (16 in Arabic numerals, xvi, XVI in roman). OE.
Sixteen persons or things identified contextually, as years of age, chances (in giving odds), minutes, shillings (now Hist.), pence, etc. ME.
sweet sixteen: see SWEET adjective & adverb.
New Yorker The Phillies..put sixteen on the board in their first two turns at bat. Health Guardian Menstruation..starts during puberty, usually between the ages of ten and sixteen.
The sixteenth of a set or series with numbered members, the one designated sixteen, (usu. number sixteen, or with specification, as book sixteen, chapter sixteen, etc.); a size etc. denoted by sixteen, a garment etc. of such a size, (also size sixteen). E16.
A set of sixteen; a thing having a set of sixteen as an essential or distinguishing feature; spec. (a) in pl., sixteen leaves to the sheet in a printed book, sextodecimo; (b) an engine or motor vehicle with sixteen cylinders. E17.
Each of a set of sixteen; spec. a medium-sized plant-pot of which sixteen are formed from one cast of clay. E19.
Comb.: Forming compound cardinal numerals with multiples of a hundred, as 516 (read five hundred and sixteen, US also five hundred sixteen), etc. In dates used for one thousand six hundred, as 1612 (read sixteen twelve), sixteen-nineties, etc. With nouns + -ER1 forming nouns with the sense 'something (identified contextually) being of or having sixteen s', as sixteen-tonner, sixteen-wheeler, etc. Special combs., as sixteen millimetre (Film) a cine Film which is sixteen millimetres wide; sixteen pounder a gun throwing a shot that weighs sixteen pounds.
sixteenmo noun = SEXTODECIMO M19.
sixteensome noun & adjective (a) noun a group of sixteen people; (b) adjective for sixteen; esp. (of a Dance) performed by sixteen people together: E20.