Sixteen

Definition: Sixteen

Sixteen

Adjective

1. Being one more than fifteen.

Noun

1. The cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sixteen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Sixteen

Crosswords: Sixteen

Pidgin English (sixteen).

All of my piercings, sixteen places on my body, all of them done with a needle (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

I'm sixteen years old and I don't need a governess (The Sound of Music; writing credit: Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

When you're sixteen. (The Kid; writing credit: Audrey Wells)

According to my source, the end of the world will be on February 14th, in the year two thousand and sixteen. (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

Give me two packs of cigarettes today. Working overtime: Sixteen hours And nature's nectar, wake-up juice (Ghost World; writing credit: Daniel Clowes)

But I was a mere child of sixteen, I've aged a year since then (Only Sixteen; performing artist: DR. HOOK)

YOU'RE SIXTEEN, YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL, AND YOU'RE MINE (You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful And You're Mine); performing artist: Ringo Starr)

Got me seekin capital game when I spit sixteen (Down Ass Bitch; performing artist: Ja Rule)

Hold on to sixteen as long as you can ("Jack and Diane"; performing artist: John Cougar Mellencamp)

Just sweet sixteen, and now you're gone ("Teen Angel"; performing artist: Mark Dinning)

Say this sharply, say this sweetly, say this shortly, say this softly. Say this sixteen times in succession. (references; author: unknown)

Sixteen Fathoms Deep (1934)

Pathé Melody Comedies: Sixteen Sweeties (1930)

Sweet Sixteen (1928)

Serious Sixteen (1910)

Sixteen to Life (2003)

Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen (performing artist: Neil Sedaka)

You're Sixteen (performing artist: Ringo Starr)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Original Sixteen to One Mine, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Sixteen and Dying (reference)

• Sixteen Cows (reference)

• The Beautiful Game: Sixteen Girls and the Soccer Season That Changed Everything (reference)

• The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court (reference)

• The Law of Success In Sixteen Lessons (2 Volume Set) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sixteen Candles (reference)

• Sixteen Girls Get Wet-N-Wild (reference)

• Sixteen (reference)

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Music

• Sixteen Scandals (reference)

• Sixteen Stone (reference)

• Sixteen Tambourines/Baroque Hoedown (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• MaxTech HX16B Sixteen Port 10BASE-T Hub (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, USAAF (front), leader of the raiding force, wires a Japanese medal to a 500-pound bomb, during ceremonies on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), shortly before his force of sixteen B-25B bombers took off for Japan. The planes were launched on 18 April 1942. The wartime censor has obscurred unit patches of the Air Force flight crew members in the background. Credit: NAVY.

Fighting Squadron Sixteen (VF-16) Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Paul D. Buie, (center) briefs his pilots for an upcoming mission, during the Gilberts operation, November-December 1943. A F6F-3 "Hellcat" fighter is behind them. Photographed by Commander Edward Steichen, USNR. Note flight gear, markings on helmets and life vests. Pilot at left wears a .45 caliber pistol. Credit: NAVY.

At Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 14 May 1946, while being prepared for use as a target for the Operation "Crossroads" atomic bomb tests. Note her battery of sixteen 21-inch torpedo tubes, in quadruple mountings amidships. Credit: NAVY.

View looking aft from the island of USS Hornet (CV-8), while en route to the mission's launching point. USS Gwin (DD-433) is coming alongside, as USS Nashville (CL-43) steams in the distance. Eight of the mission's sixteen B-25B bombers are parked within view, as are two of the ship's SBD scout bombers. Note midships elevator, torpedo elevator, arresting gear and flight deck barriers in the lower portion of the photo, and 1.1" quad anti-aircraft machine gun mount at left. Credit: NAVY.

After a fast of sixteen years. Credit: Library of Congress.

The First block of residences in Boston was built in 1793 on Franklin Street. The Tontine Crescent, so-called from its shape, contained sixteen houses ... it was one of Charles Bulfinch's most ambitious enterprises. Credit: Library of Congress.

Late 19th century printed cotton handkerchief from Russia, with sixteen vignettes depicting military life during reign of Alexander III with diagram showing component parts of a rifle used. Credit: Library of Congress.

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys ages one to fourteen, California. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars a month. Pays sixteen dollars and twenty cents a month rent to apply on purchase. Credit: Library of Congress.

Homer Sharer and family. Estherville, Iowa. He has rented farms in the past. Was last employed as hired hand for sixteen months, but is on unemployment relief. Credit: Library of Congress.

Representatives of sixteen National Womens [sic] Patriotic Societies. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She had been thinking of him the moment before, as unquestionably sixteen miles distant

Sixteen years

No person dined with the Queen but the two Princesses Royal, the elder sixteen years old, and the younger at that time thirteen and a month

While I was surveying, the ice, which was sixteen inches thick, undulated under a slight wind like water

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Sixteen states have 16 - 30 and three states with 31 to 50 systems. (references)

Sixteen percent of Poles regularly shop at hypermarkets and supermarkets. (references)

There are about sixteen retailers on this website, developed by the Textile and Fashion Federation (Singapore). (references)

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

Sixteen daily newspapers are published in the country. (references)

Australia

Sixteen changes to procedures were recommended, including many to improve the welfare of children at the facilities. (references)

Bangladesh

No progress has been made in the prosecution of the persons accused in the homicide case of Shamsur Rahman, the Jessore correspondent of Dhaka-based Bangla-language daily Janakantha who was killed at his office in July 2000. Sixteen persons, including five journalists, were charged with the murder of the journalist who also was a BBC Bangla Service employee. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

Sixteen others are listed as "under negotiation". (references)

Croatia

By 2001, the company opened an additional sixteen restaurants. (references)

Costa Rica

Sixteen of the hospitals are located in the Central Region of the country. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Sixteen demonstrators were arrested. (references)

Colombia

Sixteen inmates reportedly remain unaccounted for following April 2000 fighting between paramilitaries and organized crime groups, which left 27 dead and 43 wounded in Bogota's La Modelo prison. (references)

Political Economy

Kenya

CABINET: Sixteen Ministries, seven of which are served by two or more ministers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "sixteen": one sixteen bend. Additional references.

Beginning with "sixteen": sixteen-and-a-half, sixteen-cylinder, sixteen-day, sixteen-foot, sixteen-hour, sixteen-inch, sixteen-legged, sixteen-man, sixteen-mile, sixteen-month, sixteen-month-old, sixteen-notch, sixteen-ounce, sixteen-page, sixteen-paragraph, sixteen-petalled, sixteen-pin, sixteen-plus, sixteen-race, sixteen-sided, sixteen-stone, sixteen-storey, sixteen-thirty, sixteen-to, sixteen-to-eighteen-year-old, sixteen-tooth, sixteen-year, sixteen-year-old, sixteen-year-olds, sixteen-years-old.

Ending with "sixteen": post-sixteen.

Afrikaans

sestien. (various references)

Albanian

gjashtëmbëdhjetë (sixteenth). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتاة في السادسة عشر من عمرها, ‏ستة عشرة, ‏ست عشرة. (various references)

Asturian

deciseyes. (various references)

Aymara

tuncasojhtani. (various references)

Basque

hamasei. (various references)

Bemba

ikumi na mutanda. (various references)

Bulgarian 

шестнадесет. (various references)

Catalan

setze. (various references)

Cebuano

napulog unom. (various references)

Chamorro

dies i sais. (various references)

Chinese 

十六 (16). (various references)

Cornish

whetek. (various references)

Croatian

šesnaest. (various references)

Czech

šestnáct. (various references)

Danish

seksten. (various references)

Dutch

zestien. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

chunca sucta. (various references)

Esperanto

dek ses. (various references)

Estonian

kuusteist. (various references)

Faeroese

sekstan. (various references)

Farsi 

شماره شانزده , شانزدهمین (Sixteenth), شانزده . (various references)

Finnish

kuusitoista. (various references)

French

seize. (various references)

French Canadian

seize. (various references)

Frisian

sechstjin. (various references)

German

sechzehn, sechszehn. (various references)

Greek 

δεκαέξι. (various references)

Haitian Creole

sèz. (various references)

Hawaiian

gjashtëmbëdhjetë. (various references)

Hebrew 

שש�" עשר, שש עשר�". (various references)

Hungarian

tizenhat. (various references)

Icelandic

sextán. (various references)

Inuktitut

qulit arvinilik. (various references)

Irish

sé déag. (various references)

Italian

sedici (xvi). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

二八 , 十六 (16). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にはち, じゅうろく (16). (various references)

Kongo

kumi ye sambanu. (various references)

Korean 

열여섯. (various references)

Macedonian

shesnaeset. (various references)

Manx

shey jeig. (various references)

Maori

tekau maa ono. (various references)

Mohawk

yayak-yawenre. (various references)

Norwegian

seksten. (various references)

Papiamen

djeseis. (various references)

Pidgin English

sixteen. (various references)

Pig Latin

ixteensay.(various references)

Polish

szesnaście. (various references)

Portuguese

dezesseis. (various references)

Provencal

setze. (various references)

Romanian

şaisprezece, ºaisprezece. (various references)

Romansch

sedesch. (various references)

Romany

deshooshòv. (various references)

Ruanda

cumi na gatandatu. (various references)

Russian 

шестнадцать. (various references)

Samoan

sefuluono. (various references)

Sepedi

lesometshela. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

šesnaestica, šesnaest. (various references)

Sicilian

sidici. (various references)

Slovene

šestnajst. (various references)

Spanish

diez y seis, dieciséis. (various references)

Sranan

tinasiksi. (various references)

Swahili

kumi na sita. (various references)

Swazi

-lishûmi nesítfûpha. (various references)

Swedish

sexton. (various references)

Tagalog

labing-anim, labing-ánim, disiseis. (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งมีจำนวนสิบหก, จำนวนสิบหก. (various references)

Turkish

on altı. (various references)

Ukrainian

шістнадцять. (various references)

Vietnamese 

số mười sáu, mười sáu. (various references)

Welsh

un ar bymtheg. (various references)

Zulu

ishumi nesithupha. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "sixteen": sixteenmo, sixteenmos, sixteens, sixteenth, sixteenths. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sixteen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Saxene, Saxtead, sextain, sisteen, sixen, sixte, sixteene, sixteens, sixtie, systeen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: exines.

-2 letters: exine, exist, exits, inset, neist, nites, nixes, seine, sente, senti, sixte, stein, teens, tense, tines.

-3 letters: exes, exit, nest, nets, next, nite, nits, nixe, seen, sene, sent, sext, sine, site, snit, teen, tees, tens, ties, tine, tins.

-4 letters: ens, ins, its, nee, net, nit, nix, see, sei, sen, set, sex, sin, sit.

+1 letter: existent, intersex, sixteens.

+2 letters: antefixes, anxieties, dextrines, ektexines, euxenites, exertions, existence, existents, exsecting, exserting, exsertion, extensile, extension, extensity, extensive, inexperts, sixteenmo, sixteenth.

+3 letters: anthelixes, coexistent, exceptions, excipients, excretions, executions, exemptions, existences, exoticness, expedients, exsertions, extensible, extensions, extermines, externship, inexistent, intermixes, intersexes, pentoxides, sixteenmos, sixteenths.

+4 letters: coexistence, coextensive, convexities, excerptions, excitements, execrations, existential, expeditions, experiments, extensional, extensities, extensively, externalise, externalism, externships, exultancies, exurbanites, fluoxetines, inexactness, inexistence, intersexual, nonexistent, preexistent, preexisting, pyroxenites, tinderboxes.