Sixteen
noun
The number that is after fifteen and before seventeen.
My sister is sixteen years old.
adjective
Consisting of or relating to the number sixteen.
She gave me sixteen apples.
noun
The number that is after fifteen and before seventeen.
My sister is sixteen years old.
adjective
Consisting of or relating to the number sixteen.
She gave me sixteen apples.
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Pro Tip 1/3Age Milestone
Sixteen is often celebrated as a significant age milestone in many cultures, marking greater independence.
In the US, turning sixteen allows you to get a driver's license.
Pro Tip 2/3Numerical Sequence
Sixteen is part of numerical sequences; understanding its order helps with math and telling time.
Counting by twos: fourteen, sixteen, eighteen.
Pro Tip 3/3Sweet Sixteen
'Sweet Sixteen' is a cultural reference to a special birthday in some countries.
Her parents threw her a 'Sweet Sixteen' party.
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The mystery of chronic...
sixteen years old last year when I met her and she aspired to be a professional dancer and during the course of one of her dance rehearsals she fell on her outstretched arm and sprained her wrist now you would probably imagine as she did that a wrist sprain is a trivial event in a person's life rapid in an ace bandage takes some ibuprofen for a week
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The weird, wonderful...
interested in your theories about what that's about so there's a language of light in the deep ocean and we're just beginning to understand it and one way we're going about that is we're imitating a lot of these displays this is an optical lure that I've used we call it the electronic jellyfish it's just sixteen blue LEDs that we can
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Pixar: The math behind...
to the midpoint of their clockwise neighbor. So, let me animate that for you. I'm going to call that the averaging step. So, now I've got eight points, they're a little bit smoother, my job is to make a smooth curve, so what do I do? Do it again. Split and average. So, now I've got sixteen points.
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How menstruation works -...
This is called ovulation, and it usually happens ten to sixteen days before the start of a period. The tiny oocyte moves along the fallopian tube. A pregnancy can only occur if the egg is fertilized by a sperm cell within the next 24 hours. Otherwise, the egg's escapade ends,
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Fast Food PIPE Life Below...
crucial for his body to keep up this is the lower right leg from a young bull moose fifteen or sixteen months old and I'm gonna break it to get the marrow out of course you can use a saw to get to the marrow but I found that by supporting the bone between two large
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Chimamanda Ngozi...
before I was sixteen. And each time I tried to read those books called "the feminist classics," I'd get bored, and I really struggled to finish them. But anyway, since feminism was un-African, I decided that I would now call myself "a happy African feminist."
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Palenque and the Ancient...
some other cosmic tree sprouts it's the heavenly load it's the earthly load that means a load of riches like Jade Jade collars Jade ear ornaments are bestowed upon the nine sky supports of the Sun the sixteen supports of the Sun
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Enric Sala: Journey to...
imagine when the Spanish conquistadores were sailing over those waters in the sixteen hundreds that coral was still was already large and growing and we were so happy we were so excited and then we got a call on the radio from
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Technology that protects...
sixteen point seven million people that had their identity stolen sure and it's critical because Trust is what leads to collaboration our ancestors who grew up in villages and never left those small villages could
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The Best Dogs of BBC...
a hundred and sixteen balls 26 frisbees and over 800 cloth animals but how does she do it on the mass are five items chaser knows
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The mystery of chronic...
sixteen years old last year when I met her and she aspired to be a professional dancer and during the course of one of her dance rehearsals she fell on her outstretched arm and sprained her wrist now you would probably imagine as she did that a wrist sprain is a trivial event in a person's life rapid in an ace bandage takes some ibuprofen for a week
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The weird, wonderful...
interested in your theories about what that's about so there's a language of light in the deep ocean and we're just beginning to understand it and one way we're going about that is we're imitating a lot of these displays this is an optical lure that I've used we call it the electronic jellyfish it's just sixteen blue LEDs that we can
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Pixar: The math behind...
to the midpoint of their clockwise neighbor. So, let me animate that for you. I'm going to call that the averaging step. So, now I've got eight points, they're a little bit smoother, my job is to make a smooth curve, so what do I do? Do it again. Split and average. So, now I've got sixteen points.
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How menstruation works -...
This is called ovulation, and it usually happens ten to sixteen days before the start of a period. The tiny oocyte moves along the fallopian tube. A pregnancy can only occur if the egg is fertilized by a sperm cell within the next 24 hours. Otherwise, the egg's escapade ends,
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Fast Food PIPE Life Below...
crucial for his body to keep up this is the lower right leg from a young bull moose fifteen or sixteen months old and I'm gonna break it to get the marrow out of course you can use a saw to get to the marrow but I found that by supporting the bone between two large
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Chimamanda Ngozi...
before I was sixteen. And each time I tried to read those books called "the feminist classics," I'd get bored, and I really struggled to finish them. But anyway, since feminism was un-African, I decided that I would now call myself "a happy African feminist."
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Palenque and the Ancient...
some other cosmic tree sprouts it's the heavenly load it's the earthly load that means a load of riches like Jade Jade collars Jade ear ornaments are bestowed upon the nine sky supports of the Sun the sixteen supports of the Sun
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Enric Sala: Journey to...
imagine when the Spanish conquistadores were sailing over those waters in the sixteen hundreds that coral was still was already large and growing and we were so happy we were so excited and then we got a call on the radio from
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Technology that protects...
sixteen point seven million people that had their identity stolen sure and it's critical because Trust is what leads to collaboration our ancestors who grew up in villages and never left those small villages could
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The Best Dogs of BBC...
a hundred and sixteen balls 26 frisbees and over 800 cloth animals but how does she do it on the mass are five items chaser knows
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Mel Gibson
Actor
The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker.
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Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman
In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.
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Adele
English Singer
I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.
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Kendrick Lamar
American Musician
The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I'm a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.
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Brian McKnight
American Musician
When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.
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John Mellencamp
American Musician
Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.
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Delmore Schwartz
American Poet
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
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Babe Ruth
American Baseball Player
I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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Mary Wilson Little
American Writer
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
French Philosopher
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
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Mel Gibson
Actor
The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker.
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Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman
In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.
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Adele
English Singer
I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.
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Kendrick Lamar
American Musician
The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I'm a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.
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Brian McKnight
American Musician
When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.
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John Mellencamp
American Musician
Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.
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Delmore Schwartz
American Poet
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
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Babe Ruth
American Baseball Player
I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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Mary Wilson Little
American Writer
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
French Philosopher
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
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