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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
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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-
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of ten1
˜yÐÄvlog 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
Milei has slashed subsidies for transport, fuel and energy, fired tens of thousands of public servants and closed government departments.
Szabo said the sanitation bureau is spending tens of millions of dollars on compliance with California Senate Bill 1383, which requires the diversion of organic waste away from landfills.
Mr Beirne announced ten years ago a DNA profile had been developed from evidence collected at the scene in 1995 and revealed it belonged to a man unrelated to the Brown family.
Nine in ten secondary schools restrict the use of smartphones, according to a survey of 19,000 schools and colleges commissioned by Dame Rachel de Souza.
Now, almost overnight, tens of millions of dollars in funding earmarked for research studying radicalization, violent extremism and terrorism prevention has been cut.
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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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