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ten (ten)

adjective

totaling one more than nine

Etymology: ME < OE ten, tȳn, tene, akin to Ger zehn < IE *déṃ, ten > Sans dáça, Gr dēka, L decem

noun

  1. the cardinal number between nine and eleven; 10; X
  2. any group of ten people or things
  3. something numbered ten or having ten units, as a playing card or a throw of dice
  4. Informal a ten-dollar bill

ten Synonyms

ten

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ten Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • thousand: Greece is to deploy tens of thousands of armed guards in Athens during the games.
  • million: For the UK 2001 general election, political pundits spoke in terms of tens of millions being spent in total by all parties.
  • kilometer: Typically, they are a few tens of kilometers across at their source, expanding to hundreds of kilometers across downstream.
  • kilometer: In the radio frequency weapons area, you are talking tens of meters to tens of kilometers.
  • meter: In the radio frequency weapons area, you are talking tens of meters to tens of kilometers.
  • hour: You can produce a good basic open learning course in a few tens of hours.

Converse of object

  • spend: Oil, energy and car companies have spent tens of millions of dollars fighting the Kyoto protocol.
  • attract: Like the Integer House, Osborne House is expected to attract tens of thousands of visitors.
  • involve: This may involve tens or hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide.
  • sell: The relevance of the Manifesto today A cheap paperback edition of the Manifesto published in 1996 sold tens of thousands of copies.
  • cost: Think about insurance Extending your home may cost tens of thousands of pounds, so itâs worth protecting your investment.
  • affect: But it has so far failed to address the scandal of exclusions affecting tens of thousands of children a year.

Adjective modifier

  • few: You can produce a good basic open learning course in a few tens of hours.
  • many: We have all seen how many tens of thousands are placed on each race each day so how come they can't get on?
  • more: If immediate deaths are in the low range, more tens of millions may die subsequently because the economy is unable to support them.

Modifies a noun

  • machine: TENS machines are now widely used to treat acute and chronic pain of many different origins.
  • review: Increase in history tens reviews and i respect what high-end players with.
  • list: From New York: Standing room only... it's THE TOP TEN LIST for Thursday, January 19, 1995.

Noun used with modifier

  • heat: HEAT TEN: Lee Richardson, Andreas Jonsson, Ryan Sullivan, Tomasz Chrzanowski.
  • chapter: CHAPTER TEN POSTSCRIPTS are proverbially important, and apostolic postscripts are no exception to the rule.