Sɪks Sixes I Number Cookies Left Sweden’s Top

• there are six cookies left.
• six of sweden’s top financial experts
• ten people were invited but only six turned up.
• can you lend me six dollars?

six

1. 6
• There are six cookies left.
• six of Sweden’s top financial experts
• Ten people were invited but only six turned up.
• Can you lend me six dollars?
• a six-month contract
• Look at page six.
• Six and four is ten.
• Three sixes are eighteen.
• I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a six?
• The bulbs are planted in fours or sixes (= groups of four or six).
• We moved to America when I was six (= six years old).
• Shall we meet at six (= at six o'clock), then?
2. a hit that scores six runs (= points)
3. in a confused state; not well organized
• I haven't had time to clear up, so I'm all at sixes and sevens.
4. to be dead and buried in the ground
5. to affect somebody very deeply
• The business over the lawsuit had really knocked her for six.
6. used to say that there is not much real difference between two possible choices

Word Origin

• Old English siex, six, syx, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zes and German sechs, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sex and Greek hex.