fiftieth.html - See: TAKE THE FIFTH.

fiftieth.html - {n. phr.} A group or organization within a country that works to bring about the country's downfall, usually through acts of espionage and sabotage. * /The Communist party in the United States was considered by Senator McCarthy to be the Soviet Union's fifth column./

fiftieth.html - {adj.}, {informal} 1. Divided or shared equally. * /It will be a fifty-fifty arrangement; half the money for me and half for you./ 2. Half for and half against; half good and half bad. * /There is only a fifty-fifty chance that we will win the game./ Compare: HALF AND HALF.

fiftieth.html - n. & adj.
--n.

1 one more than fourteen, or five more than ten; the product of three units and five units.
2 a symbol for this (15, xv, XV).
3 a size etc. denoted by fifteen.
4 a team of fifteen players, esp. in Rugby football.
5 (the Fifteen) hist. the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.
6 (15) Brit. (of films) classified as suitable for persons of 15 years and over.

--adj.

that amount to fifteen.

fifteenth adj. & n. [OE fiftene (as FIVE, -TEEN)]

fiftieth.html - n. & adj.
--n.

1 the position in a sequence corresponding to that of the number 5 in the sequence 1-5.
2 something occupying this position.
3 the fifth person etc. in a race or competition.
4 any of five equal parts of a thing.
5 Mus. a an interval or chord spanning five consecutive notes in the diatonic scale (e.g. C to G). b a note separated from another by this interval.
6 US colloq. a a fifth of a gallon of liquor. b a bottle containing this.

--adj.

that is the fifth.

fifth column a group working for an enemy within a country at war etc. (from General Mola's reference to such support in besieged Madrid in 1936). fifth-columnist a member of a fifth column; a traitor or spy. Fifth Monarchy the last of the five great kingdoms predicted in Daniel 2:44. Fifth-monarchy-man hist. a 17th-c. zealot expecting the immediate second coming of Christ and repudiating all other government. fifth part = sense 3 of n. fifth wheel 1 an extra wheel of a coach.
2 a superfluous person or thing.
3 a horizontal turntable over the front axle of a carriage as an extra support to prevent its tipping. take the fifth (in the US) exercise the right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of refusing to answer questions in order to avoid incriminating oneself.

fifthly adv. [earlier and dial. fift f. OE fifta f. Gmc, assim. to FOURTH]

fiftieth.html - n. & adj.
--n.

(pl. -ies)
1 the product of five and ten.
2 a symbol for this (50, l, L).
3 (in pl.) the numbers from 50 to 59, esp. the years of a century or of a person's life.
4 a set of fifty persons or things.
5 a large indefinite number (have fifty things to tell you).

--adj.

that amount to fifty.

fifty-fifty adj. equal, with equal shares or chances (on a fifty-fifty basis).

--adv.

equally, half and half (go fifty-fifty). fifty-first, -second , etc. the ordinal numbers between fiftieth and sixtieth. fifty-one, -two , etc. the cardinal numbers between fifty and sixty.

fiftieth adj. & n. fiftyfold adj. & adv. [OE fiftig (as FIVE, -TY(2))]