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Picture a line of things and you are pointing at number five — the one that comes right after the fourth. That single idea of 'the five-spot in an order' is what every other use leans on.

可以想成一排東西排好，你的手指停在第五個——前面剛好有四個，它接在第四個後面。其他用法都從這個「排序裡的第五位／和五…更多收起可以想成一排東西排好，你的手指停在第五個——前面剛好有四個，它接在第四個後面。其他用法都從這個「排序裡的第五位／和五有關」的畫面長出來。

From the picture

五分之一（份額）

把一個東西平均切成五份，每一份就是「第五位那一份」的大小——序數的「第五」轉成分數的「五分之一」，是同一個五在數量上的另一面。

fifth (fraction) · noun · A2

One of five equal parts that something is divided into.

五分之一

Also in this word

fifth (ordinal) · adjective · A2

Coming after the fourth one in a list or order.

第五（的）

原始詞典資料14 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Fifthname

  • 1

    informalThe Fifth Amendment.

  • 2

    informalThe right not to give self-incriminating testimony.

  • 3

    Fifth Avenue.

    • […] besides marrying Nate Archibald and living happily every after in the ivy-covered brick town house just off Fifth that she already had picked out
  • 4

    Fifth Street.

fifthadj/fɪfθ/

  • 1

    The ordinal form of the number five.

    • On Friday, at a former Michelin factory in the north-east of the city, the finishing touches were being put in place for the fifth Dundee design festival, which opens on Monday.

fifthnoun/fɪfθ/

  • 1

    The person or thing in the fifth position.

  • 2

    The person or thing in the fifth position.

  • 3

    One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.

  • 4

    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

    entertainmentlifestylemusicThe musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)

    • Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
  • 6

    The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

fifthverb/fɪfθ/

  • 1

    entertainmentlifestylemusicTo sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

    • Another extension of strict organum is 'fifthing'. Fifthing is a note-against- note method of creating a two-part texture by improvising a second voice over the given tune, starting and ending each musical phrase at the octave and proceeding mainly in fifths above the tune at others times.
    • Each of these three groups contributes some special insight into the nature of fifthing and the context in which it was practiced.
  • 2

    informalTo support something fifth, after four others have already done so.

    • A lisping young “Soundings,” or master’s assistant, sung out “I thecond the mothon,” instantly transferring his beer to our hero’s face. In short the resolution was thirded, fourthed, fifthed, and sixthed, all following suit with the swipes:[…]
    • It was then moved, seconded, thirded, fourthed, and fifthed, “that Jarman be, and is hereby hung, and ought to be kicked.”
  • 3

    To divide by five.

    • 3/5 has been through fifthing. 2/3 has been through thirding. Therefore, 3/5 now needs thirding and 2/3 needs fifthing

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。