Ten
Cardinal Number:
- The cardinal number equal to 9 + 1; the number represented by the Arabic numeral 10 and the Roman numeral X.
- Denoting a quantity consisting of ten items or units.
Noun:
- A playing card marked with ten symbols (pips).
- A denomination of currency, such as a ten-dollar bill.
- A group or set of ten people or things.
Cardinal Number:
- She has ten fingers.
- The recipe calls for ten eggs.
Noun:
- He drew the ten of hearts from the deck.
- Can you break a twenty? I need two tens.
- The children were divided into tens for the game.
"Ten to one": An expression meaning something is very likely to happen.
- It's ten to one that the meeting will be postponed.
"Ten out of ten": A perfect score; used to indicate full marks or complete approval.
- I'd give that performance ten out of ten.
"The upper ten": (Archaic) Refers to the highest social class, the aristocracy.
- The ball was attended by the upper ten of society.
Tenth (adj., n.): Constituting number ten in a sequence; the ordinal form.
- This is his tenth birthday.
- She finished in tenth place.
Tenfold (adj., adv.): Ten times as great or as numerous.
- A tenfold increase in sales.
- Decade: (When referring to a set of ten) A period of ten years.
- Denarius: (Historical) A Roman silver coin, sometimes translated as "ten."
Ten-four: (Informal, from radio communication) Acknowledgment of understanding; "OK."
- "We'll meet at noon." "Ten-four."
Ten-gallon hat: A large cowboy hat.
- He tipped his ten-gallon hat.
Ten a penny: Very common and of little value.
- Those souvenirs are ten a penny in the market.
At sixes and sevens: (Note: This idiom does not contain "ten" but is a common numerical idiom for comparison, meaning in a state of confusion or disarray.)
- After the merger, the office was at sixes and sevens.
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being one more than nine
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one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face
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the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
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