5 (disambiguation)
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5 and five are used in many contexts:
As a number or year
As a name
- 5 (Peanuts) is a character in the comic strip Peanuts
- 5 (New York City Subway service) is a New York City Subway service
- Five is a popular UK TV channel.
- Five Easy Pieces' is a 1970 movie starring Jack Nicholson and Sally Struthers.
- the Renault 5 was a Renault automobile
- The juice brand 5 Alive
- Enid Blyton's The Famous Five
- Five Tiger Generals
- The 50th state of the United States gives us the quinary TV show title Hawaii Five-O.
- Five-spice powder
- Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
- Five was the designation of the main robot character, also called "Johnny 5", from the movie Short Circuit
As a term or description
- Giving five refers to slapping hands with someone as a sign of approbation.
- The expression five by five originates from the U.S. Military and refers to the five levels of signal strength and signal clarity in a radio transmission. The fifth, and highest level for each being, "Loud" and "Clear" respectively. Thus "five by five" was adapted to define anything ideal.
- To hang five in surfing is to surf with one foot partly off the board.
- Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
- A "five-finger discount" refers to shoplifting.
- The five stages of grief are said to be shock, denial, anger, bargaining and acceptance.
- Something that tries to bring an operation down or screw with the system can be called a "fifth wheel".
Other uses
- In the DOS Shell and Windows, the F5 key refreshes a directory listing or folder window. In Internet Explorer, the F5 key refreshes the current webpage.
- Pentameter is verse with five repeating feet per line; iambic pentameter was the most popular form in Shakespeare.
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