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19TH

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 19th mean? 

19TH (adjective)
  The adjective 19TH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the eighteenth in positionplay

  Familiarity information: 19TH used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


19TH (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the eighteenth in position

Synonyms:

19th; nineteenth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)


 Context examples 


The US National Wildlife Federation reports an estimated worldwide population of 100,000 cheetahs in the late 19th century.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)

Detectors in Europe picked up the waves and experts realised this would be impossible if the core was liquid, as it was thought to be in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

(Earth's Core Confirmed to Be Solid After 80 Years of Study, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Paleoamerican hypothesis was first proposed in the 19th century, but this new study disproves that theory.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)

In the 19th century, the Great Red Spot was well over two Earths wide.

(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)

Five o'clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January, when Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and nearly dressed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Of Friday, June 19th.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We then set sail, and had a good voyage till we passed the Straits of Madagascar; but having got northward of that island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant equal gale between the north and west, from the beginning of December to the beginning of May, on the 19th of April began to blow with much greater violence, and more westerly than usual, continuing so for twenty days together: during which time, we were driven a little to the east of the Molucca Islands, and about three degrees northward of the line, as our captain found by an observation he took the 2nd of May, at which time the wind ceased, and it was a perfect calm, whereat I was not a little rejoiced.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Double bonds for docosatrienoic acid can be originating from either the (3rd, 6th and 9th), the (5th, 11th and 17th), the (7th, 13th and 19th) or the (9th, 12th and 15th) positions from the methyl end.

(Docosatrienoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)



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