Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "five by five" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF FIVE BY FIVE

five by five play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FIVE BY FIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Five by five is an exclamation.
Exclamation is an expression or voice that reflects an emotion or exaltation.

WHAT DOES FIVE BY FIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Five by five

Five by five is the best of 25 possible subjective responses used to describe the quality of communications, specifically the signal-to-noise ratio. As receiving stations move away from an analog radio transmitting site, the signal strength decreases gradually, causing the relative noise level to increase. The signal becomes increasingly difficult to understand until it can no longer be heard as anything other than static.

Definition of five by five in the English dictionary

The definition of five by five in the dictionary is an expression used in telecommunications to state that a signal is being received clearly.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FIVE BY FIVE

five
five heads of predicables
five hundred
five Ks
Five Nations
Five Nations Championship
Five Nations Tournament
five stones
Five Towns
five wits
five-a-day
five-a-side
five-a-side football
five-and-dime
five-by-five
five-day week
five-door
five-eighth
five-faced bishop
five-finger

WORDS THAT END LIKE FIVE BY FIVE

five
five-by-five
forty-five
give a person five
high five
high-five
nine to five
nine-to-five
spoilfive
take five
tight five

Synonyms and antonyms of five by five in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «five by five» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF FIVE BY FIVE

Find out the translation of five by five to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of five by five from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «five by five» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

5×5个
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cinco por cinco
570 millions of speakers

English

five by five
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पांच पांच से
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خمسة خمسة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пять на пять
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cinco por cinco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাচেঁ পাচঁ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cinq par cinq
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lima oleh lima
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fünf von fünf
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

5 5をすることにより
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

오 오 을 하여
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lima dening lima
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

năm bởi năm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஐந்து பேர் ஐந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाच ते पाच
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Beş beş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cinque da cinque
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pięć przez pięć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

п´ять на п´ять
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cinci de cinci
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πέντε στα πέντε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vyf by
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

five med fem
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fem av fem
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of five by five

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FIVE BY FIVE»

The term «five by five» is regularly used and occupies the 78.617 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
64
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «five by five» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of five by five
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «five by five».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FIVE BY FIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «five by five» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «five by five» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about five by five

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FIVE BY FIVE»

Discover the use of five by five in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to five by five and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
U.S. Master Estate and Gift Tax Guide 2008
If in 2007 the corpus of the trust is $240,000, each child could forgo the exercise of the yearly power without incurring a gift tax liability, since the amount deemed lapsed would qualify under the "five by five" provision of the Code ($240,000 x ...
CCH Tax Law Editors, 2007
2
Slayer Slang : A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon: A Buffy ...
... for Ionothan and Andrew. Bulfy and the others try to stop her. Big fighty fight in the Magic Box." [fight vi in sense 1.a + -y' sufi in sense 1] five-by-five 1: adj Satisfied, good 1998 Oct 13 Greenwalt Faith, Hope, and Trick “Hey, as long as you ...
Michael Adams Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English Albright College, 2003
3
Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays
Faith is the only character on Buffy to use the phrase “five by five.” “Five by five” is originally a radio communication signal that means “I understand you perfectly.”4 Right after the body swap, Faith-as-Buffy signals to the audience/viewer that ...
Erin B. Waggoner, 2010
4
Ten to Midnight
Shelley stretched over the table, between Lewis and Copeland, to activate the speakerphone. “NIGHT LIGHT is five by five,” he reported. Lowering his voice, he explained to the President, “NIGHT LIGHT is our designation.” “Good to hear you,  ...
Toby Murray, 2000
5
Ten to Midnight
The President waved a dismissive hand. “Okay, General. Let's proceed with the conference, shall we?” “Of course, sir.” Shelley reached between Lewis and Copeland to activate the speakerphone. “NIGHT LIGHT is five by five,” he reported.
Toby Emden, 2009
6
The Book of Yantras
I sincerely request the reader to take a blank page and make a five-by-five grid and try to make a magic square exactly as shown above without referring to the procedure that I have explained. If you get blank at any point of time, you may refer ...
SWAMI RAM CHARRAN
7
Reading Lyrics
Here comes Mister Five by Five. I-le's one of those big fat bouucin' boys, Solid avoir du poisl n er n A 1 N Mister Five by Five, He's five feet tall and he's five feet wide, He don't measure no mo' From head to toe Than he do from side to side.
Robert Gottlieb, Robert Kimball, 2000
8
High-Five Teaching, K?5: Using Green Light Strategies to ...
A Five-by-Five Conclusion Starting the school year this way, using the High-Five Principles over and over, sets the stage for student success in a variety of ways. The routines and behaviors you create establish the parameters within which an  ...
Rich Allen, Cindy Rickert, 2010
9
Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism, The, Volume ...
A leather rug and a leather [piece for] the crib, and the leather used as the lower covering of a bed, and the leather of the mattress and the leather of the pillow, even though not five-by-five [handbreadths] — it is unclean. T. Kelim Baba Batra  ...
Jacob Neusner, 2000
10
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
Five by five by five they staggered into the cave, each to receive a machine-pistol bullet in the brain before pitching forward into the volcanic dust. The pile grew: actors and architects, lawyers and mechanics, shopkeepers and physicians, ...
Rick Atkinson, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FIVE BY FIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term five by five is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Profile: 20th anniversary of genocide in Europe
We were told to find a place and lined up, five by five.” Miraculously, although badly wounded, he was one of the few to survive and returned to ... «The National, Jul 15»
2
For $3350, This 1987 Mazda 626GT Is Five By Five
With its five doors, five speeds and a turbo four pot, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mazda might have all the right numbers. You'll still have to ... «Jalopnik, Jul 15»
3
Bishop's Cellar gets a growler filling station
With the help of what he calls "the trifecta"—Breakhouse for design, Five by Five for renovations and Beer Tech's Ken Greer for draught tap ... «The Coast Halifax, Jun 15»
4
Steele: Choosing water-wise shrubs
Caryopteris 'Dark Knight' (Bluebeard) is an attractive five by five foot silver-leaved shrub, smothered in vibrant blue flowers in August and ... «Lake Country Calendar, Jun 15»
5
Bishop's Cellar craft beer growlers tap into new market
Five by Five Renovations – which also did work at Stillwell Bar and Edna – took the lead on the renovation, knocking out some of the store's ... «MetroNews Canada, Jun 15»
6
MDN: Confirmation of High-Grade Niobium Showings And …
On the other hand, at least two are ferro-carbonatites. Of particular interest is a five by five metres area, about 90 metres south of site 28, where ... «Stockhouse, Jun 15»
7
Event360: Five lessons learned
Following the Five by Five session, where panellists from Sony, Jack Daniel's and Hewlett-Packard (HP) discussed a recent experiential activity ... «Event Magazine, Jun 15»
8
Event360: Sony, Jack Daniel's and HP discuss event success
Following the Five by Five session at Event360 yesterday (23 June), Jack Morton Worldwide's Mark Spragg facilitated a Q&A session with ... «Event Magazine, Jun 15»
9
Event360 - 24 hours to go
At 2pm, the Five by Five session will also be available to watch online with representatives from Sony Mobile, Jack Daniel's and HP, who will be ... «Event Magazine, Jun 15»
10
Event360 to live stream sessions for the first time
At 2pm, the Five by Five session will also be available to watch online. Representatives from Sony Mobile, Jack Daniel's and HP will be ... «Event Magazine, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Five by five [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/five-by-five>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z