ten
[ten] or [tɛn]
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Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system.
(adj.) being one more than nine .
Typist: Nola--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) One more than nine; twice five.
(n.) The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.
(n.) A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.
Editor: Shelton
Definition
adj. twice five.—n. a figure denoting ten units as 10 or x.: a playing-card with ten spots: ten o'clock in the morning or evening.—n. Up′per-ten (see under Upper).
Edited by Ahmed
Examples
- Ten minutes passed--and nothing happened. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It's a hundred and ten pounds, the deuce take it! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I have eight or ten similar cases maturing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- For ten days after this repulse the Duke of Brunswick hesitated, and then he began to fall back towards the Rhine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She had gone to bed at half-past ten. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Fifty thousand men are said to have been killed and ten thousand prisoners taken. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My dear Miss Summerson, said Richard in a whisper, I have ten pounds that I received from Mr. Kenge. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was indeed a moveable pair of stairs, the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It was then not ten o'clock. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The interview here ended, I agreeing, however, to send a letter giving final terms by ten o'clock that night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was between ten and eleven o'clock when Mrs. Micawber rose to replace her cap in the whitey-brown paper parcel, and to put on her bonnet. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Fred Bentinck rode by the side of my carriage for the first ten miles. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Each turbine in a penstock represents the power of 5,000 horses, and there are now ten or more employed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He then perceived they were soldiers--thousands and tens of thousands; but they made no more noise than a swarm of midges on a summer evening. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Some of the early races learned to designate units from tens and tens from hundreds by working their fingers in various ways. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She saw herself the object of attention, to tens and to scores of them at present unknown. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Before sunset a strong breeze sprung up from the north, and this must have caused tens of thousands of the butterflies and other insects to perish. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He is a very liberal thanker, with his thousands and tens of thousands. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Because man had ten fingers and thumbs, he learned to count in tens. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They counted in sixti es as well as in tens. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The first man’s ten fingers and thumbs represented units; the second man represented tens, and the third hundreds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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