An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SIX
six, vi, half dozen, half-dozen
(adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units
six, six-spot
(noun) a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips
six, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexad
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Numeral
six
A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This many dots: (••••••).
Describing a group or set with six elements.
Noun
six (plural sixes)
The digit or figure 6.
(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.
(obsolete) Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel.
Anagrams
• ISX, XIs, xis
Proper noun
Six (plural er-noun)
(UK) Abbreviation of MI6. (Secret Intelligence Service)
Synonyms
(Secret Intelligence Service)
• 6
• MI6
• Secret Intelligence Service
Coordinate terms
• Five (MI5)
Anagrams
• ISX, XIs, xis
Source: Wiktionary
Six, a. Etym: [AS. six, seox, siex; akin to OFries. sex, D. zes, OS. & OHG. sehs, G. sechs, Icel., Sw., & Dan. sex, Goth. saíhs, Lith. szeszi, Russ. sheste, Gael. & Ir. se, W. chwech, L. sex, Gr. shesh, Skr. shash. sq. root304. Cf. Hexagon, Hexameter, Samite, Senary, Sextant, Sice.]
Definition: One more than five; twice three; as, six yards. Six Nations (Ethnol.), a confederation of North American Indians formed by the union of the Tuscaroras and the Five Nations.
– Six points circle. (Geom.) See Nine points circle, under Nine.
Six, n.
1. The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects.
2. A symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or VI. To be at six and seven or at sixes and sevens, to be in disorder. Bacon. Shak. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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