Ten

Definition: Ten

Ten

Adjective

1. Being one more than nine.

Noun

1. The cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ten" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Ten

Age

Noun: age; oldness; Adjective: old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf"; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.

Amusement

Ace, king, queen, knave, jack, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, trey, deuce; joker; trump, wild card.

Arms

Gun, piece; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk; falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero, bouche a feu; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur, mitrailleuse; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom; ten pounder.

Fashion

Man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world; height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum; (taste); the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand; (nobility); elite; (distinction); smart set; the four hundred; in crowd.

Five

Thousand, chiliad; millennium, thousand years, grand; myriad; ten thousand, ban, man; ten thousand years, banzai; lac, one hundred thousand, plum; million; thousand million, milliard, billion, trillion;

Noun: five, cinque, quint, quincux; six, half-a-dozen, half dozen; seven; eight; nine, three times three; dicker; ten, decade; eleven; twelve, dozen; thirteen; long dozen, baker's dozen; quintuplet; twenty, score; twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen; twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred; forty, two score; fifty, half a hundred; sixty, three score; seventy, three score and ten; eighty, four score; ninety, fourscore and ten; sestiad.

Good Man

Salt of the earth; one in ten thousand; one in a million; a gentleman and a scholar; pillar of society, pillar of the community, a man among men.

Mart

Shop, emporium, establishment; store; department store, general store, five and ten, variety store, co-op, finding store, grindery warehouse.

Multitude

Adjective: many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty; half a dozen, half a hundred; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous; numerose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded; galore.

Nobility

High life, haute monde; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the four hundred; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world; (fashion).

Power

Phrase: a toute force; gr/dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gen/gr eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis; fortis cadere cedere non potest.

Probability

Adverb: probably; Adjective: belike; in all probability, in all likelihood; very likely, most likely; like enough; odds on, odds in favor, ten; to one; apparently, seemingly, according to every reasonable expectation; prim_ facie; to all appearance; (to the eye).

Success

Trump card; hit, stroke, score; lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good stroke; direct hit, bull's eye; goal, point, touchdown; home run, homer, hole-in-one, grand slam; killing, windfall bold stroke, master stroke; ten strike; coup de maitre, checkmate; half the battle, prize; profit; (acquisition).

Crosswords: Ten

Chamorro (tent), Czech (that, the, this, whichever), Galician (have, it has, you have, you have got), Pidgin English (ten), Polish (this), Romanian (complexion), Serbo-Croatian (complexion, hue of the skin), Sranan (time, while), Swedish (rod), Turkish (skin), Turkmen (flesh).

Ten thousand (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

I mean not now, but, ah, ten years from now. (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo.)

And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

He was jerkin' off ten times a day. (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr)

Come on, take a bag. I took a bag home last night, and it cost me a lot more than ten quid (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

And after ten rounds with Jose Cuervo (Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo; performing artist: TRACY BYRD)

I been in the game for ten years makin' rap tunes (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC)

OUT BY TEN BACK BY TEN (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife (Ironic; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock rock ("Rock Around the Clock"; performing artist: Bill Haley & the Comets)

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words. (references; author: Chinese Proverb)

It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one. (references; author: unknown)

The silence of one man can be louder than the screaming of ten boys! (references; author: unknown)

Every ten seconds, somewhere on this Earth, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. (references; author: unknown)

Ten tame tadpoles tucked tightly together in a thin tall tin. (references; author: unknown)

Ten tiny tin trains toot ten times. (references; author: unknown)

Thick ticks on three trees brought broth to ten thin tin men. (references; author: unknown)

After Ten Years (1973)

Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)

Ten Fingers of Steel (1973)

Nikczemny chlopak Ten okrutny (1972)

Norien Ten (1971)

TEN ROUNDS WITH JOSE CUERVO (performing artist: TRACY BYRD)

Ten Dollar Bill (performing artist: Under Suspicion)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Koninklijke Ten Cate NV: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Ten Allied Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Ten Alps Communications P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Ten Network Holdings Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Gossip: Ten Pathways to Eliminate It from Your Life and Transform Your Soul (reference)

• Ten Thoughts to Take into Eternity: Living Wisely in Light of the Afterlife (reference)

• The Discipline Book: How to Have a Better-Behaved Child From Birth to Age Ten (reference)

• Avoiding Mr. Wrong (and What To Do If You Didn't) Ten Men Who Will Ruin Your Life (reference)

• Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices for Abolishing War (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Athlons Pac Ten Football (reference)

• Ten (reference)

• Ten From The Top (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Pokemon - Hang Ten Pikachu (Vol. 22) (reference)

• Hitler: The Last Ten Days (reference)

• The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993 (reference)

• Moses's Ten Commandments/Mose' (reference)

• The Ten Commandments (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Ten Top Sopranos (reference)

• Happy Times Ten (reference)

• Ten Days of Blue [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Electronic Arts Top Ten Pack - BLUE (reference)

• Uniden SC180B Ten Band Scanner (reference)

• ICE TEN V4.7 3.5 MOST U/U-TERMINAL EMULATION SER (reference)

• Ten for X (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Ottomanelli's Meal Package, Selection Ten (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The abdomen consists of ten segments, of which I through VIII, along with X are well defined. Credit: CDC.

This movie depicts the airborne laser altimeter collecting data.  In 1993 and 1994, NASA researchers surveyed the Greenland ice sheet using an airborne laser altimeter. Ten flight lines flown in 1993 in southern Greenland were resurveyed in 1998. Sci. Credit: NASA.

In its first ten years, the 12.5-ton Earth-orbiting NASA's Hubble has studied 13,670 objects, ... Credit: NASA.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a detailed view of a ten thousand light-year long ... Credit: NASA.

PATHFINDER wardroom 1959 Front Row: Carter, Keltner, Stavran, Harper, Kinney Center Row: Nygren, Clark, Captain Rubottom, CME Gilgan, Popper Back Row: Poor, McCall, Meiers, Taetz, Wiener, Newton, Ten Eyck, Degroot. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

In the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes at Katmai National Park supporting seismic monitoring stations. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

A slide describing the purpose of the eelgrass restoration and its partners. In June 1996 NOAA scientists transplanted 7000 eelgrass plants from Charlestown Pond to ten locations in Narragansett Bay. The project team returned the following September and found mixed results. In June 1997, the team expanded two of the successful sites and employed a new technique by transplanting turf. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A plug of Zostera marina, shown after transplant into one of the the ten locations in Narragansett Bay, RI. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Humpback whale calves are born in wintering waters of the tropics and subtropics . This humpback whale mother and calf will remain virtually inseparable. The calf weans at around ten or eleven months. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Straightening out one of the underwater transect lines used for counting fish. All fish ten feet to each side of the line were counted. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And therefore he that incloses land, and has a greater plenty of the conveniencies of life from ten acres, than he could have from an hundred left to nature, may truly be said to give ninety acres to mankind: for his labour now supplies him with provisions out of ten acres, which were but the product of an hundred lying in common. (Second Treatise of Government)

The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. (reference)

These conditions shall be susceptible of revision every ten years in the same manner. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

For ten minutes she could hear nothing but herself

Five minutes, ten minutes, a quarter of an hour went by, yet nothing came

Oh God, muttered Ford, slumped against a bulkhead and started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this

He was of an amorous humour, but said that for ten years past he had decidedly and entirely renounced women

The old man was a nimble walker in spite of his corns and often ten or twelve miles of the road were covered

My heart is ten times lighter than my looks

Off horse is eight, near is ten, but might of been twin colts the way they work together

After this manner we continued in the island for ten days, most part of every day with the Governor, and at night in our lodging

An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

This most common food intolerance affects at least one out of ten people. (references)

Ten to 15 percent of travelers develop a serologic conversion to Norwalk-like viruses. (references)

NIA also supports some AD research at ten Exploratory Centers on the Demography of Aging. (references)

Business

The procedure can take more than ten years. (references)

In 1999 U.S. imports decreased ten percent. (references)

This was the worst financial result in the last ten years. (references)

Children

Macau

Ten schools have programs for persons with disabilities, providing special education programs for approximately 467 students. (references)

Civil Liberties

Austria

Ten cases remained pending at year's end. (references)

Latvia

Ten or more congregations of the same denomination having permanent registration status may form a religious association. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

All ten licenses were issued. (references)

Hong Kong

Maturities now extend to ten years. (references)

Russia

The registration can take up to ten days. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

Ten persons were killed in the attack. (references)

Kuwait

Ten inmates were found to be in possession of drugs and were segregated from the general prison population. (references)

Zimbabwe

Ten war veterans, including Cain Nkala, the chairman of the National Liberation War Veterans Association in Bulawayo, reportedly were detained for the kidnaping. (references)

Political Economy

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Some debts are over ten years old. (references)

Israel

Ten industrial parks in Jordan are designated as QIZs. (references)

PARAGUAY

Implemented in 1992, the value-added tax (IVA) stands at ten percent. (references)

Political Rights

El Salvador

Ten political parties, representing the full political spectrum, fielded seven candidates in the March 1999 presidential elections. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

In April the IPTF censured ten police officers and dismissed six senior Interior Ministry officials from Herzegovina-Neretva Canton for circulating the HDZ's "Oath of Allegiance" within the ministry. (references)

Bulgaria

A number of women hold elective and appointive office at high levels in the new Government, including one Deputy Prime Minister (who also is Minister of Labor and Social Policy), the Minister of Environment and Water Resources, and ten deputy ministers. (references)

Trade

Kenya

Project assistance covers ten key sectors of the Kenyan economy. (references)

Armenia

The ten percent tariff is levied on items consisting mainly of consumer goods and luxury items. (references)

Djibouti

The goods should be cleared within four to ten days, otherwise they will moved to storage and incur fees. (references)

Travel

Burma

Business visas are normally valid for ten weeks. (references)

Ecuador

Since 1994, ten U.S. citizens have been kidnapped near the Colombian border. (references)

South Africa

Tipping is lower than in Europe or the United States and ten percent is the typical rate. (references)

Women

Tunisia

Four women were named deputy governors during the year bringing the number to ten out of 24. Approximately 50.4 percent of university students enrolled in the 2000-2001 academic year were women. (references)

Worker Rights

Mauritius

Ten major labor federations serve as umbrella organizations for these smaller unions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Containing ten cities

Expressions using "ten": about ten ♦ Barker Ten Mile ♦ complement on ten ♦ five and ten ♦ fourscore and ten ♦ gr/dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gen/gr eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis ♦ Group of Ten ♦ hart of ten ♦ it's ten o'clock ♦ nine times out of ten ♦ of ten ♦ one hundred ten ♦ one out of ten ♦ power of ten ♦ space out payments over ten years ♦ take a toll of ten lines ♦ take five from ten ♦ take ten ♦ Ten Broeck ♦ ten commandments ♦ ten days ♦ ten feet ♦ ten in one ♦ Ten Jin Do ♦ ten kilometres ♦ Ten Mile ♦ ten minutes ago ♦ ten paces off ♦ ten percent ♦ ten pounder ♦ Ten Sleep ♦ ten thousand ♦ ten thousand years ♦ ten times ♦ ten to one ♦ ten year old ♦ the ten commandments ♦ the upper ten ♦ the upper ten thousand ♦ upon a requisition by ten members ♦ upper ten ♦ upper ten thousand. Additional references.

Beginning with "ten": ten-acre, ten-album, ten-a-penny, ten-a-side, ten-band, ten-bay, ten-bayed, ten-bed, ten-bedroom, ten-bedroomed, ten-bob, ten-bout, ten-by-eight, ten-by-four-inch, ten-cd, ten-cent, ten-cent coin, ten-centimetre, ten-client, ten-coach, ten-column, ten-copeck coin, ten-count, ten-course, ten-date, ten-day, ten-day fern, ten-day period, ten-days' period, ten-degree, ten-denier, ten-digit, ten-dimensional, ten-disc, ten-dollar, ten-drachma, ten-dwelling, ten-ell-oos, ten-em-bee, ten-event, ten-feet-deep, ten-feet-high, ten-fifteen, ten-fifty, ten-film, ten-finger interface, ten-fold, ten-foot, ten-foot-high, ten-foot-long, ten-foots, ten-foot-thick, ten-forty, ten-forty-five, ten-four, ten-franc, ten-furlong, ten-furrow, ten-gallon, ten-gallon hat, ten-gauge, ten-goal, ten-guinea, ten-gun, ten-handicapper, ten-horned, ten-hour, ten-huc, ten-hundredweight, ten-inch, ten-inch-wide, ten-ish, ten-key, ten-kilometre, ten-kilometre-wide, ten-lane, ten-legged, ten-length, ten-lesson, ten-man, ten-mark, ten-match, ten-member, ten-men, ten-mer, ten-metre-square, ten-mile, ten-millionth, ten-millionths, ten-million-ton, ten-minute, ten-month, ten-month-old, ten-nil, ten-node, Ten-o'clock, ten-page, ten-part, ten-past, ten-past-six, ten-per-cent, ten-person, ten-pfennig piece, ten-piece, ten-pin, ten-pint, ten-pitch, ten-plus-four, ten-point, ten-pound, Ten-pounder, ten-quid, ten-record, ten-rouble, ten-round, ten-rounder, ten-seat, ten-seater, ten-second, ten-section, ten-seven, ten-shilling, ten-sided, ten-sixtieths, ten-speaker, ten-speed, ten-spined stickleback, ten-spot, ten-step, ten-stone, ten-storey, ten-storeyed house, ten-strike, ten-strong, ten-subject, ten-thirty, ten-thirty-five, ten-thirty-ish, ten-thousand, ten-thousand-dollar, ten-thousand-mile, ten-thousandth, ten-thumbed, ten-times-better, ten-times-larger, ten-to, ten-ton, ten-to-one, ten-to-the-eightieth, ten-track, ten-trial, ten-truck, ten-try, ten-under-par, ten-volume, ten-warhead, ten-week, ten-week-old, ten-wheeler, ten-wicket, ten-yard, ten-year, ten-yearly, ten-year-old, ten-year-older, ten-year-olds, ten-year-old-son, ten-years, ten-years-old, ten-years-on, ten-years-straight.

Ending with "ten": five-ten, half-ten, one-in-ten, procon-ten, top-ten.

Containing "ten": under-ten-year-olds, written-in-ten-minutes.

Afrikaans

tien. (various references)

Albanian

dhjetë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏عشرة (companionship, decade, familiarization), ‏عشرات من السنتات (tenpins), ‏عشر (inseminate, tithe), ‏العاشر من. (various references)

Asturian

diez. (various references)

Aymara

tunca. (various references)

Basque

hamar. (various references)

Bavarian

zehne. (various references)

Bemba

ikumi. (various references)

Blackfoot

kiipó. (various references)

Breton

dek. (various references)

Bulgarian 

от десет, десет. (various references)

Catalan

deu. (various references)

Cebuano

napulo. (various references)

Chamorro

dies. (various references)

Chinese 

十 . (various references)

Cornish

dék. (various references)

Croatian

deset. (various references)

Czech

deset. (various references)

Danish

ti. (various references)

Dutch

tien. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

chunca. (various references)

Esperanto

dek. (various references)

Estonian

kümneks, kümme. (various references)