Nine vs Ninesies - What's the difference?
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(cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number occurring after eight and before ten.
Describing a set or group with nine components.
The digit or figure .
(card games) A playing card with nine pips.
(weaponry) A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
(computing, engineering, usually in plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
(label) A baseball club, a baseball team (composed of nine players).
* 1877, Chicago Times, July 8, 1877:Peter Morris,
A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball, 15.1.3 Rain Checks, *:The St. Louis club is the only nine in the league which gives its patrons the right to see a full game or no pay.
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A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where nine actions must be performed.
* 2004 , Anne Tyler, The amateur marriage (page 282)
As a verb nine
is they are.As a noun ninesies is
a call in any children's game, such as jacks, where nine actions must be performed.nine
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(wikipedia nine)Numeral
(head)- A cat has nine lives.
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*Noun
(en noun)- They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines .
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* Previous : eight () * Next : ten ()Derived terms
* cloud nine * dressed to the nines * on cloud nine * the whole nine yardsSee also
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Noun
(ninesies)- He saw Lindy playing jacks on the sidewalk in Front of the store, snatching up ninesies and tensies in a heedless, all-out swoop that kept the backs of her lingers perpetually scraped raw.
