Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 9 + 1.
- noun The tenth in a set or sequence.
- noun Something having ten parts, units, or members.
- noun Games A playing card marked with ten spots.
- noun A ten-dollar bill.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of tenor.
- Abbreviation for tenuto.
- Being the sum of nine and one; one more than nine; twice five: a cardinal numeral.
- [Ten is often used indefinitely for many.
- noun The sum of nine and one, or of five and five.
- noun A figure or symbol denoting that number of units or objects, as 10, or X, or x.
- noun A playing-card with ten spots.
- noun Ten o'clock in the morning or evening: as, I was to be there at ten.
- noun A certain weight of coal used in the coal-fields of Durham and Northumberland, England, for reckoning the royalty fo be paid by the lessee to the lessor. It varies between 48 and 50 tons.
- Ten times.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.
- noun A symbol representing ten units, as 10,
x , orX . - adjective One more than nine; twice five.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cardinal A
numerical value equal to10 ; thenumber occurring afternine and beforeeleven , represented inRoman numerals asX , inArabic numerals as 10, and in thehexadecimal system (base 16) as A. - noun uncountable The number following
nine . - noun countable (
Cards ) The card between thenine andjack in a given suit. - noun countable A monetary denomination worth ten units.
- noun countable, US, slang A superb specimen.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being one more than nine
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
- noun one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the sentence, Ten men _walk_, the verb _walk_ denotes _ten_ actions, for there are ten actors.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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To denote a number greater than ten, we must begin again, _ten_ and _one, ten_ and _two_, &c.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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Out of forty lines of Vergil, Scaife would be fifteen, John fifteen, and the Caterpillar ten; _ten_, because, as he pointed out, he had been nearly three years in the school.
The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908
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Out of forty lines of Vergil, Scaife would do fifteen, John fifteen, and the Caterpillar ten; _ten_, because, as he pointed out, he had been nearly three years in the school.
The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908
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He would accept the ten pounds -- but really, did ever you hear of anything so ridiculous in your life, _ten pounds!
The Lost Girl 1907
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On we bound, and on comes the pursuer, not ten yards behind -- not _ten_, but more than _five_.
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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Congressmen, representing both her white and slave population, but wishes them appointed throughout the State without regard to the slave population: so that the county containing ten thousand white inhabitants, and double that number of slaves, should be entitled to no more representation than the county containing _ten_ thousand white inhabitants and no slaves!
Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors William Gannaway Brownlow 1841
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He then related, that he had had ten children, _all put out to be suckled_, in consequence of the necessity of his having the mother's assistance to carry on his business; and that _two out of the ten_ had come home _ideots_; though the rest were all sane, and though insanity had never been known in the family of either father or mother!
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-- Thus, I have expended ten _score_ words, to tell the world what another would have told them in _ten_ -- "That our prison is wretched, and we want a better."
An History of Birmingham (1783) William Hutton 1769
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On the scale of disruption, from one to ten, this is a ten+, because the infrastructure, financial and government support systems are so weak in Haiti.
ActiveRain Real Estate Network Wayne Johnson Coldwell Banker D'Ann Harper Realtor 2010
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