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# sixty

number (sixty)

«sixty» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Sixty is the number 60, which is six tens. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#m1)
2. An hour has 60 minutes and a minute has 60 seconds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#m2)

### In the lessons

Maths: a number; 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute, so time problems often hide 60. Everyday: ages, prices, speed limits («sixty miles an hour»).

### Examples

- There are sixty minutes in an hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x1)
- Sixty people came. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x2)
- A ticket costs sixty cents. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x3)
- What is sixty divided by five? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x4)
- A minute has sixty seconds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x5)
- Grandma turned sixty last week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x6)
- The car was going sixty kilometers an hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x7)
- “I never run less than sixty miles,” Cael replied sullenly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/#x8)

### Note

A number word; read it as 60. Hours and minutes hide the 60. Trap: do not confuse sixty (60) with sixteen (16). Trap: time is not base ten — 1 hour 30 minutes is 90 minutes, not 130.

## In Jewish tradition

Maths: a number; 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute, so time problems often hide 60. Everyday: ages, prices, speed limits («sixty miles an hour»).

### Examples

- And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begot Jared. (Torah GEN.5.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sixty/#x1)
- And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah. (Torah GEN.5.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sixty/#x2)
- And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and begot Enoch. (Torah GEN.5.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sixty/#x3)
- The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six. (Writings EZR.2.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sixty/#x4)

### Note

A number word; read it as 60. Hours and minutes hide the 60. Trap: do not confuse sixty (60) with sixteen (16). Trap: time is not base ten — 1 hour 30 minutes is 90 minutes, not 130.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sixty» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sixty/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sixty» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sixty.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «sixty» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sixty/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sixty» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/sixty.html) on Mova free.