Twentieth
adjective
Something that is number 20 in a series or list.
This is the twentieth cookie I've baked today.
Often appears as...
- twentieth century
- twentieth anniversary
noun
One part in twenty of a whole.
She secured the twentieth part of the total votes.
Often appears as...
- one twentieth
- the twentieth part
adjective
Something that is number 20 in a series or list.
This is the twentieth cookie I've baked today.
Often appears as...
- twentieth century
- twentieth anniversary
noun
One part in twenty of a whole.
She secured the twentieth part of the total votes.
Often appears as...
- one twentieth
- the twentieth part
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Pro Tip 1/3Ordinal Usage
Used to describe the order of something in a list, specifically the position after nineteenth.
Samantha was the twentieth person to cross the finish line.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
Often used to refer to historical centuries, helps to place events in a time period.
The telephone was invented in the twentieth century.
Pro Tip 3/3Anniversary Significance
Marks the importance of a 20th recurring event or the passage of 19 complete years.
They celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary last June.
Pro Tip 1/3Ordinal Usage
Used to describe the order of something in a list, specifically the position after nineteenth.
Samantha was the twentieth person to cross the finish line.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
Often used to refer to historical centuries, helps to place events in a time period.
The telephone was invented in the twentieth century.
Pro Tip 3/3Anniversary Significance
Marks the importance of a 20th recurring event or the passage of 19 complete years.
They celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary last June.
Pro Tip 1/3Ordinal Usage
Used to describe the order of something in a list, specifically the position after nineteenth.
Samantha was the twentieth person to cross the finish line.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
Often used to refer to historical centuries, helps to place events in a time period.
The telephone was invented in the twentieth century.
Pro Tip 3/3Anniversary Significance
Marks the importance of a 20th recurring event or the passage of 19 complete years.
They celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary last June.
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Clay Shirky: How...
If you want to have a conversation in this world, you have it with one other person. If you want to address a group, you get the same message and you give it to everybody in the group, whether you're doing that with a broadcasting tower or a printing press. That was the media landscape as we had it in the twentieth century. And this is what changed.
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The power of introverts...
does not offend by superiority but then we hit the twentieth century and we entered a new culture that historians call the culture of personality you know what happened is we had evolved from an agricultural economy to a world of big business and so suddenly people are moving from small towns to the cities
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CERN's supercollider PIPE...
but unless you understand the underlying reason for that pattern -- you know, why it's built the way it is -- really you've done stamp collecting. You haven't done science. Fortunately, we have probably one of the greatest scientific achievements of the twentieth century that underpins that pattern.
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The Call of Everest PIPE...
in there and with it the twentieth century and now the 21st century and all the trappings and downfalls but also the benefits and all the things that really make life special for that and probably one of the most important things with that is education and this was brought
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Everest, Mars, and...
you so but I'm compared to landing on the moon climbing mountains is it's a it's a selfish pursuit and I have just a tremendous amount of respect for the risk that the three of you on July twentieth nineteen sixty-nine well one of the one of this one of the stories
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Why should you read...
by a twentieth century poet. While her work can be shocking in its rage and trauma, Plath casts her readers as witnesses– not only to the truth of her psychological life, but to her astounding ability to express what often remains inexpressible.
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Africa’s rhyming history...
seemed to suggest possibility and I asked what might have happened what if my examples are drawn or three they are drawn from the sixteenth century from the nineteenth century and from the twentieth the first
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Shipwreck From Explorer...
scientists and specialists who helped us actually confirm the provenance the age and the identity of this shipwreck and that's the key to the science that we've completed whether its twentieth century of the
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Laws that choke...
A culture which is top-down, owned, where the vocal chords of the millions have been lost. Now, as you look back at the twentieth century, at least in what we think of as the, quote, "developed world" --
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Utopian Underwater...
throughout time man has sought to conquer the oceans in the mid twentieth century there was a real underwater boom the dream listed colonized the ocean across the world more than 60 underwater
Video examples
Clay Shirky: How...
If you want to have a conversation in this world, you have it with one other person. If you want to address a group, you get the same message and you give it to everybody in the group, whether you're doing that with a broadcasting tower or a printing press. That was the media landscape as we had it in the twentieth century. And this is what changed.
Video examples
The power of introverts...
does not offend by superiority but then we hit the twentieth century and we entered a new culture that historians call the culture of personality you know what happened is we had evolved from an agricultural economy to a world of big business and so suddenly people are moving from small towns to the cities
Video examples
CERN's supercollider PIPE...
but unless you understand the underlying reason for that pattern -- you know, why it's built the way it is -- really you've done stamp collecting. You haven't done science. Fortunately, we have probably one of the greatest scientific achievements of the twentieth century that underpins that pattern.
Video examples
The Call of Everest PIPE...
in there and with it the twentieth century and now the 21st century and all the trappings and downfalls but also the benefits and all the things that really make life special for that and probably one of the most important things with that is education and this was brought
Video examples
Everest, Mars, and...
you so but I'm compared to landing on the moon climbing mountains is it's a it's a selfish pursuit and I have just a tremendous amount of respect for the risk that the three of you on July twentieth nineteen sixty-nine well one of the one of this one of the stories
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Why should you read...
by a twentieth century poet. While her work can be shocking in its rage and trauma, Plath casts her readers as witnesses– not only to the truth of her psychological life, but to her astounding ability to express what often remains inexpressible.
Video examples
Africa’s rhyming history...
seemed to suggest possibility and I asked what might have happened what if my examples are drawn or three they are drawn from the sixteenth century from the nineteenth century and from the twentieth the first
Video examples
Shipwreck From Explorer...
scientists and specialists who helped us actually confirm the provenance the age and the identity of this shipwreck and that's the key to the science that we've completed whether its twentieth century of the
Video examples
Laws that choke...
A culture which is top-down, owned, where the vocal chords of the millions have been lost. Now, as you look back at the twentieth century, at least in what we think of as the, quote, "developed world" --
Video examples
Utopian Underwater...
throughout time man has sought to conquer the oceans in the mid twentieth century there was a real underwater boom the dream listed colonized the ocean across the world more than 60 underwater
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