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ten
1[ ten ]
noun
- a cardinal number, nine plus one.
- a symbol for this number, as 10 or X.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- a playing card with ten pips.
- Informal. a ten-dollar bill:
She had two tens and a five in her purse.
- Also called ten's place. Mathematics.
- (in a mixed number) the position of the second digit to the left of the decimal point.
- (in a whole number) the position of the second digit from the right.
adjective
- amounting to ten in number.
ten.
2abbreviation for
- tenor.
- Music. tenuto.
ten
1/ tɛn /
noun
- the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one. It is the base of the decimal number system and the base of the common logarithm See also number
- a numeral, 10, X, etc, representing this number
- something representing, represented by, or consisting of ten units, such as a playing card with ten symbols on it
- Also calledten o'clock ten hours after noon or midnight
determiner
- amounting to ten
ten tigers
- ( as pronoun )
to sell only ten
ten-
2combining_form
- a variant of teno-
Word History and Origins
Origin of ten1
Word History and Origins
Origin of ten1
Idioms and Phrases
- take ten, Informal. to rest from what one is doing, especially for ten minutes.
More idioms and phrases containing ten
see count to ten ; not touch with a ten-foot pole .Example Sentences
Ten of the callers identified the man as Jason Polanco of the Bronx.
As played by Omundson, King Richard is effeminate, sincere, and ten times funnier than everyone else.
“Wait…” Suddenly a huge, graceful black marlin leaps out of the water, sending a shower of water ten feet high.
I first saw Marvin when I was ten years old, living with my parents in Arlington, Virginia.
I did a ten minute scene in his class: the guy who had gangrene in his leg in The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.
Ten minutes later, veiled and cloaked, she stepped out alone into the garden.
The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor.
Strathland would bundle me out in ten minutes if anything happened to Jack.
There is cause for alarm when they bring one hundred and ten ships into these seas without any means of resistance on our part.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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