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Definition: Fifty-eight |
Fifty-eightAdjective1. Being eight more than fifty. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fifty-eight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Synonym: Fifty-eightSynonym: lviii (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fifty-eight |
| Specialty definitions using "fifty-eight": Honest Lawyer. (references) |
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Screenplays | Fifty-eight, your order's great! (Kim Possible; writing credit: Julie DuFine; Madellaine Paxson) | |
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 | Japanese-American volunteers. The remaining fifty-three volunteers of board no. 2, Lihue, Kauai, who passed their physical to complete their board's quota of fifty-eight inductees take the oath of induction into the AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] co.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed in the engine house of the Pennsylvania Railroad, earns fifty-eight cents per hour. She is cleaning a locomotive with a high pressure nozzle. Mrs. Steven.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed in the engine house of the Pennsylvania Railroad, earns fifty-eight cents per hour. She is cleaning a locomotive with a high pressure nozzle. Mrs. Steven.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Mary Ankrom, twenty-eight, mother of six children, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad engine house as a locomotive preparer, earning fifty-eight cents per hour. Her father takes care of her children while she is working.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Fifty-eight" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fifty-eight" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Cardinal Number | 100% | 74 | 38,813 |
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Beginning with "fifty-eight": fifty-eight-year-old. | |
Ending with "fifty-eight": nineteen-fifty-eight. | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-f-g-h-i-i-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: fiftieth. | |
-4 letters: effigy, eighty. | |
-5 letters: eight, fifth, fifty, fight, fytte, hefty, theft, thief, tight, tithe, tythe. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 66 74 79 2D 65 69 67 68 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01100110 01110100 01111001 00101101 01100101 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i f t y - e i g h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0066 0074 0079 002D 0065 0069 0067 0068 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4075728691157175737486 |
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