fourteen
noun
a cardinal number, ten plus four.
fourteens
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pluralof fourteen.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The function is a combination of sines and cosines with a lot of sixes and fourteens floating around, but somehow it has five-fold rotational symmetry.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2015
The genealogy has three fourteens being multiples of seven.
From The Bible Book by Book A Manual for the Outline Study of the Bible by Books by Josiah Blake Tidwell
The petitions of the Lord's Prayer are arranged as seven, there are seven parables in ch. xiii., seven woes in ch. xxiii., and the genealogy of our Lord is arranged in three fourteens.
From The Books of the New Testament by Leighton Pullan
You finish your night-week at 7.00 Sunday morning, having just done a week of one twenty-four hour shift, and six fourteens.
From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Charles Rumford Walker
The atmosphere behind the scenes has always had the effect of making me feel as if my boots were number fourteens and my hands, if anything, larger.
From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
