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In the sense filed here, a quint is one of five babies born to the same mother at the same time — a short, informal cut-down of . People say ‘the quints’ for the whole set of five. You hear it in news stories and family talk more than in careful writing, where is the full word. (The same spelling has other lives: in music a quint can be a group of five notes in the time of four; in North American firefighting a quint is a truck built to do five jobs. Those are different uses of the same short form of ‘five’. This entry is the baby.)
五胞胎之一（口語，quintuplet 的縮寫）
組成From Middle French quint, from Latin quintus, ‘fifth’. Doublet of quintus. The baby sense is a short form of quintuplet.
同家族的字
- quintupletquint is the informal short form of this word
- quintuplesame Latin quintus: five times, or in fives
- quintetsame Latin root for ‘fifth’; a group of five
原始詞典資料7 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。
Quintname
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A diminutive of the male given names Quentin or Quinton
quintnoun/kwɪnt/
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entertainmentlifestylemusicAn interval of one fifth.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicThe E string of a violin.
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card-gamesgamesIn piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker.
- The discard was, in fact, an experiment in bluff. Carrados might have held a quint and fourteen kings for all the opposing hand disclosed.
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informala quin or quintuplet.
- Two days after Mrs. Shirley Ann Lawson's four girls and one boy were delivered in New Zealand, another set of quints was born to Mrs. Karin Olsen in Falun, Sweden.
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firefightinggovernmentA vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
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fencinggovernmenthobbiesquinte; the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
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。