ten

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/tɛn/

noun 6num 1name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

all, live, most, older, slow

Most ten year old children enjoy playing video games after school.

VERB + TEN

cost, count, leaves, look, made, meeting, mistakes, owe

The meeting was made ten times more productive by having a clear agenda.

TEN + NOUN

days, dollars, languages, minutes, minutes', prison, school, years

I need to wait ten minutes for my appointment, so I'll grab a coffee.

PREP.

between, in, in, since, within

I haven't seen my best friend in ten years, but we still talk regularly.

ADV.

away

She moved ten miles away from the city to find a quieter place to live.

Definitions

num

The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.

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.

noun

A set or group with ten elements.

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.

An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.

Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.

tens of thousands of voters

A card in a given suit with a value of ten.

A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.

Can you give me two tens for this twenty?

A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.

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.

name

Abbreviation of Tennessee.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the fac

ten-spot

noun — the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one

adjective — being one more than nine

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

a hundred and ten percent

A level of effort beyond what one can usually sustain; great exertion.

We busted our tails and won; we really gave 110% in that game.

ten a penny

So common as to be practically or almost worthless.

Near-synonyms: not worth a dime; see also Thesaurus:worthless

five will get you ten

I strongly believe.

Five will get you ten that your sheet will have an editorial on the Orchard case Sunday, and what will it say?

card of ten

A bold front, an instance of standing one's ground.

Fyrste pycke a quarell and fall oute with hym then, / And soo outface hym with a carde of ten.

count to ten

An expression used to describe or recommend a process for pausing to regain one's composure when one is on the verge of losing one's temper.

There is a temptation at this point to jump up and down, shouting about how often you have asked about that point. Instead, count to ten.

Example Bank

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.

Wiktionary

A ten frame is a simple graphic tool that allows people to “see” numbers.

Wiktionary

We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

Understanding that numbers are composed of tens and ones is an important foundational concept, setting the stage for work with larger numbers.

Wiktionary

Ten years is a long time to wait.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, ten is marked as slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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