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Adjektiivi

1. The ordinal form of the number five.

Substantiivi

1. (by ellipsis or nominalized) The person or thing in the fifth position.
2. (by ellipsis) The fifth gear of a transmission.
3. One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
4. (US) A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
5. (music) The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
6. The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

Verbi

1. (music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
2. (transitive, informal) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
3. (transitive, nonstandard) To divide by five.