Six vs Pix - What's the difference?
six | pix |
(cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number occurring after five and before seven.
The digit or figure .
(military slang, by ellipsis of six o'clock) Rear, behind (rear side of something).
(cricket, countable) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
(American football) A touchdown.
(informal)
* 1946 , “Palisades Notes”, in , Nielsen Business Media, Inc., ISSN 0006-2510, Volume 58, Number 37 (1946 September 14),
* 1978 , response to a letter to the editor, in American Motorcyclist , American Motorcyclist Association, ISSN 0277-9358, Volume 32, Number 2 (1978 February),
* 2010 , Lynn Powell, Framing Innocence: A Mother’s Photographs, a Prosecutor’s Zeal, and a Small Town’s Response , The New Press, ISBN 978-1-59558-551-6,
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*:* take pix of damage afterward
motion pictures; movies.
As nouns the difference between six and pix
is that six is pike while pix is (informal) or pix can be a variant of pyx.six
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(wikipedia six)Numeral
(head)Derived terms
* six-figure * * six-pack, six pack, sixpack * six-shooter, sixshooter * sixteen * sixth * sixty * six ways to SundayNoun
(es)Derived terms
* at sixes and sevens * hit someone for sixSee also
* * (Arabic numeral) * (Chinese numerals) * or VI (Roman numeral) * (Greek numeral) *Statistics
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* (l) 1000 English basic words ----pix
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Etymology 1
First attested , along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage [http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=slanguage].Noun
(en-plural noun)page 82:
- Annual photo contest has brought in some pix by amateurs which are definitely in the professional category.
page 4:
- Photo selection can be tricky with space limitations, Arthur, and we blew that one. Hope the Scott pix in our January issue made you feel better about this.
pages 15–16:
- He nervously wrote down Amy’s instructions for what to say and how to behave if the police came back with a search warrant: