Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A phonograph record designed to be played at 78 revolutions per minute.
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- n. cardinal number after seventy-seven and before seventy-nine;
- n. A gramophone record designed to be rotated at 78 revolutions per minute; a 78
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute
- adj. being eight more than seventy
- n. the cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight
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Examples
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In one month at the dealership—August 1994—he had his name on seventy-eight deals.
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Greg McMichael—Every pitch he threw seemed to be about seventy-eight miles per hour, and seemed to travel on a consistent parabola.
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“Fellow graduates of the class of seventy-eight, Principal Osder, distinguished guests, family, friends . . .”
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I was cheering at thirty-three rpm, and the rest of the squad was at seventy-eight.
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Nineteen seventy-eight may have been a wild time for fashion, but I partook of no extremes: no mile-high platform shoes, no garish tie-dyes or fringed leather vests.
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At seventy-eight, his metabolism was certainly in high gear.
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During that war, NATO planes had bombed civilian infrastructure and inhabited areas of Serbia, flying more than 38,000 missions over the course of seventy-eight days, and dropping almost twenty thousand bombs.
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I went for seventy-eight days with no communication with anyone on land.
Tori McClure talks about rowing across the Atlantic Ocean, a story she records in Pearl in the Storm
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In 2004, after proclaiming for years that she was ready to expire, Kübler-Ross died at her home in Scottsdale at the age of seventy-eight.
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Rosenblatt, a psychologist at the University of Minnesota, surveyed seventy-eight different ethnic groups, from the Basque to the Balinese, the Masai to Marshallese, and documented an astonishing diversity of who grieves, how they grieve, and for how long.
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