ten
Part of speech: num
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
Etymology: PIE word
 *déḱm̥
From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”). See also teen.
Inflected forms:
form: tens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.
pos: num
examples: There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.
A ten frame is a simple graphic tool that allows people to “see” numbers.
gloss: A set or group with ten elements.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.
They can readily state the number of tens in a hundred. But somehow they do not have a full appreciation of the "tenness" of our system and how the system is structured.
Understanding that numbers are composed of tens and ones is an important foundational concept, setting the stage for work with larger numbers.
gloss: An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.
tens of thousands of voters
No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
gloss: A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Can you give me two tens for this twenty?
gloss: A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
examples: I was in the Woodley Park–Zoo in D.C. and mom and sister were waiting to see the pandas, so me and my pops broke away to check out the monkey house. Well, there was a beautiful teacher, I mean we're talking a ten, she was blond, had a low-cut dress on, just gorgeous. And she has about eight or nine students and she's pointing out all the different monkeys. And me and my dad noticed this huge orangutan kind of fiddling with himself. And on close [censored] And we kept checking it out and he was looking directly at the teacher. Well, a couple minutes passed by [censored] he proceeds to [censored] that's when the teacher noticed and, you know, took the kids away very hurriedly. But I looked at my dad and said, you know, they're so much like us.
An Office Ten is a person who falls somewhere between average to mildly good-looking in the world at large but skyrockets to wildly attractive within the confines of an open-concept desk plan.
gloss: A high level of intensity.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
examples: "Intensities in 10 Cities"
...
Marty Di Bergi (Rob Reiner): "Why don't you just make ten louder, and make ten be the top number?"
Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest): "These go to eleven."
...
Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers): "You guys kick ass. You're Double Live Gonzo. Intensities in 10 Cities. Live at Budokan."
gloss: The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: At the 1,000-metres post we gave a ten, which raised our lead to 1⅔ lengths; the Belgians were rowing hard, but one felt that they still had plenty of spurting power.
Morris gave a ten, and an unbelievable surge ran through the boat, one that I had never felt before.
Related words: tenth
tenfold
deca-
deka-
decadal
decenary
decimal
decade and decennium
decadal and decennial
decennial
tithe
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