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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)

 

Specialty Definition: Ten

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Ten (10) is the natural number following nine and preceding eleven

Ten is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2 and 5.

Ten is the base of the decimal numeral system, by far the most common system of denoting numbers both in spoken and written language. For this reason, any number can be instantly multiplied by ten by adding a zero to the end (855 * 10 = 8,550). The basis for choice of ten is presumably that ten is the number of fingers (digits) of the human body.

The Roman numeral for ten is X (which looks like two V's put together).

The Chinese word numeral for ten is the cross +(Kanji 十).

A collection of ten items (most often ten years) is called a decade.

A polygon with ten sides is a decagon.

A decapod crustacean has ten limbs.

There are ten cents in a dime, itself one tenth of a dollar. The word was shortened from decime.

People were traditionally tithed one tenth of their produce.

Ten in numeral systems
Basesystem
2binary 1010
3ternary 101
4quaternary 22
5quinary 20
6senary 14
7septenary 13
8octal 12
9novenary 11
10decimal 10
over 11 (hexadecimal) A or X

There are ten Commandments from God to man in Mosaic law.

There are said to be ten "Lost Tribes" of Israel.

It takes ten to make a minyan.

With ten being the base of the decimal system, a scale of 1 to 10 is often used to rank things, as a smaller version of a 1-to-100 scale (as is used in percentages). Something that scores perfectly is "a perfect ten". A person who is extremely attractive and physically flawless is often said to be "a ten", from the idea of ranking that person's appearance and sex appeal on a 1-to-10 scale.

Counting from one to ten before speaking is often done in order to cool one's temper.

Other uses include:

See also: eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, integer, list of numbers.

This article is about the number. For the year AD 10, see 10.

For the order of magnitude, see 1 E1

There are quite a few albums called Ten, including recordings by Pearl Jam and LL Cool J. See Ten (album) for a complete list.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ten."

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Ten (album)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Ten is the title of several notable albums:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ten (album)."

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Ten (Pearl Jam album)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Ten is Pearl Jam's first album, released on August 27, 1991 through Epic Records.

In 2001-2002, Staind covered the song "Black" during the Break The Cycle tour.

Track listing

  1. "Once" (Vedder, Gossard) - 3:51
  2. "Even Flow" (Vedder, Gossard) - 4:53
  3. "Alive" (Vedder, Gossard) - 5:40
  4. "Why Go" (Vedder, Ament) - 3:10
  5. "Black" (Vedder, Gossard) - 5:43
  6. "Jeremy" (Vedder, Ament) - 5:18
  7. "Oceans" (Vedder, Gossard, Ament) - 2:41
  8. "Porch" (Vedder) - 3:30
  9. "Garden" (Vedder, Gossard, Ament) - 4:58
  10. "Deep" (Vedder, Gossard, Ament) - 4:18
  11. "Release" (Vedder, Gossard, McCready, Krusen) - 8:30

Album duration: 53:32

Singles

Charting singles

1992  Ten         The Billboard 200             No. 2
1992  Ten         Heatseekers                   No. 2
1992  Alive       Mainstream Rock Tracks        No. 16
1992  Even Flow   Mainstream Rock Tracks        No. 3
1992  Jeremy      Mainstream Rock Tracks        No. 5
1992  Alive       Modern Rock Tracks            No. 18
1992  Even Flow   Modern Rock Tracks            No. 21
1992  Jeremy      Modern Rock Tracks            No. 5
1993  Black       Mainstream Rock Tracks        No. 3
1993  Black       Modern Rock Tracks            No. 20

Personnel

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Ten (Y&T album)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Ten is Y&T's tenth album, recorded in 1989 and released in early 1990.

Tracks

  1. Hard Times
  2. Lucy
  3. Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark
  4. Girl Crazy
  5. City
  6. Come In From The Rain
  7. Read Hot And Ready
  8. She's Gone
  9. Let It Out
  10. Ten Lovers
  11. Goin' Off The Deep End
  12. Surrender

    Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ten (Y&T album)."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Ten

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

TEN

Dutch¿Transeuropese NetwerkenEuropean Union

TEN

EnglishTrans-European tele-geducation networkN/A

TEN

GermanTranseuropäische NetzeEuropean Union

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

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Synonyms: Ten

Synonyms: decade (n), tenner (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ten

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

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).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ten

English words defined with "ten": one hundred tentake ten, ten percent, ten thousandUpper ten thousand. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ten": BAYARD OF TEN TOESGroup of TenONE IN TENten in one, TEN TOES. (references)
Etymologies containing "ten": Uppertendom. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Ten" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

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).

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Modern Usage: Ten

DomainUsage

Screenplays

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)

Lyrics

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)

Clever

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)

Tongue Twisters

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)

Movie/TV Titles

After Ten Years (1973)

Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)

Ten Fingers of Steel (1973)

Nikczemny chlopak Ten okrutny (1972)

Norien Ten (1971)

Song Titles

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.

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Commercial Usage: Ten

DomainTitle

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)

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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

  

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

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Ten

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Photo Album: Ten

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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.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Ten
 

"Quarter to ten" by Jana Werner
Commentary: "The Clock in Aloha Tower / Honolulu Enjoy!."
"Dabb (Thubb)" by MESH'AL A.
Commentary: "Dabb (Thubb) Saudi Arabia's most well known creature. this beast can survive the desert without the need of water, it condense air into liquid. it got strong jaws. if it bites your finger.. will, you probably wont be able to count up to ten :}."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Ten

AuthorQuotation

Alexander Pope

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

Chinese Proverb

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.

Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

Habit is ten times nature.

Euripides

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Jonathan Swift

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Laurence Sterne

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

Robert Collyer

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

Titus Maccius Plautus

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Ten

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

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)

US Constitution

1791

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)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Ten

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

For ten minutes she could hear nothing but herself

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

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

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

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

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

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

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

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

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

My heart is ten times lighter than my looks

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

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

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

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

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ten

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered, and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more, For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away. And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last; No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J.

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

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Spoken Usage: Ten

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

Come down too heavily on the side of security, and you risk adding eight to ten minutes to my wait to get onto an airplane.

Halle Berry

Life. Probably when I was ten, and my father, who had left us, came back to live with us for a year. That was probably one of the worst years of my life.

James Lipton

To say the least. There was ten seconds of silence after it. Afterward, in the green room, his wife, Felicia, said to me, that's the first time Jack's ever said that in public. It was an extraordinary moment for us.

Rush Limbaugh

The Bush plan alone offers genuine stimulus to put money in your pocket every year for the next ten years.

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

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Speeches: Ten

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John Adams

1797-1801The wretched condition of this country, however, for ten or fifteen years past, has frequently reminded me of their principles and reasonings.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981As a result, the first general competitive federal coal lease sale in ten years will be held this month.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Ten years ago a young girl left Vietnam with her family, part of the exodus that followed the fall of Saigon.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Tax cuts to help nine out of ten small businesses invest more and create jobs.

George W. Bush

2001-2005Before the Gulf War, the best intelligence indicated that Iraq was eight to ten years away from developing a nuclear weapon.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Ten

"Ten" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 99.97% of the time. "Ten" is used about 20,253 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Cardinal Number99.97%20,247439
Unclassified Items0.03%6143,867
                    Total100.00%20,253N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Ten

The following table summarizes the usage of "ten" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
TenLast name13067,226
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Ten

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "ten".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
DecapolisN/ABiblical

Containing ten cities

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Ten

CountryNameCountryName
Australia

Ten Network Holdings Ltd

Japan

Ten Allied Co., Ltd.

Netherlands

Koninklijke Ten Cate NV

United Kingdom

Ten Alps Communications P.L.C.

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Ten

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.

Hyphenated Usage

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.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ten

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ten commandment

2,063

discount pad ten

85

ten

1,212

ten channel

84

saver screen ten top

567

ten tec

81

ten unit

526

ten hottest career

80

day guy in lose ten

387

ten club pearl jam

77

hang ten

362

ten machine

76

top ten ranking

344

ten thousand wave

74

top ten list

295

ten shekel shirt

73

song ten top

247

fujitsu ten

71

club ten

246

top ten pc game

71

top ten music

190

coaster roller ten top

69

top ten movie

178

ten most wanted

67

big ten

148

day guy in loose ten

67

corrie ten boom

132

power of ten

65

ten years after

131

five ten

65

billboard top ten

130

perfect ten magazine

64

ten things i hate about you

127

ten up

64

fbi ten most wanted

105

rap song ten top

63

ten pin bowling

104

ten thousand village

61

pita ten

100

top ten web site

57
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Ten

Language Translations for "ten"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

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 

  

. (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)

   

Faeroese

  

tíggju. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

چندین(درجمع), خیلی (Copious, Damn, Extra, Far, Jolly, Many, So, Very), شماره10 , ده (Village). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kymmenen. (various references)

   

Flemish

  

tien. (various references)

   

French

  

dix. (various references)

   

French Canadian

  

dix. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

tsien. (various references)

   

Galician

  

dez. (various references)

   

German

  

zehn (tens). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δέκα. (various references)

   

Haitian Creole

  

dis, di (said, to say). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

dhjetë. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

עשרת, עשרה, עשר. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tíz (chit good for ten shillings, dicker). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

tíu. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sepuluh. (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

qulit. (various references)

   

Irish

  

deich. (various references)

   

Italian

  

dieci. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

テロ対策 (10, 99.99999999%, anti-terrorist, temper, tempera, temperament, temperate, tempo, temporary, temporary worker, temptation, tempura, ten key, ten nines, tendency, tenderloin, tenderloin steak, ten-gallon hat, tense, tension, tension people, tensor, tent), (10), 十本 , (10, thing, utensil), (10). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

テン (10), じゅう (10, dwelling, living, thing, utensil), じゅっぽん, とお (10, distant), (10, 18 litres, door, gang, metropolitan, municipal, party, person, set, way). (various references)

   

Kongo

  

kumi. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

10. (various references)

   

Lombard

  

des. (various references)

   

Luganda

  

kkumi. (various references)

   

Luxembourgish

  

zing. (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

deset. (various references)

   

Malagasy

  

folo. (various references)

   

Malay

  

sepuluh. (various references)

   

Manx

  

jeihaght (decade), jeih. (various references)

   

Maori

  

tekau. (various references)

   

Maya

  

lahun. (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

oyeri. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

ti. (various references)

   

Occitan

  

dètz. (various references)

   

Papago

  

west-mahm. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

djes. (various references)

   

Pidgin English

  

ten. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

entay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

dziesięć. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

dez. (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

dez. (various references)

   

Provencal

  

dètz. (various references)

   

Quechua

  

chunka. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

zece. (various references)

   

Romansch

  

diesch. (various references)

   

Romany

  

desh. (various references)

   

Ruanda

  

cumi. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

десять. (various references)

   

Samoan

  

sefulu. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

deich (num. ten). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

lesome. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

desetka, deset. (various references)

   

Shona

  

gumi. (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

deci. (various references)

   

Slovene

  

deset. (various references)

   

Somali

  

toban. (various references)

   

Sotho

  

leshome. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

diez. (various references)

   

Sranan

  

tin. (various references)

   

Swahili

  

kumi. (various references)

   

Swazi

  

-lishûmi. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tio. (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

sampung, sampu, sampû, diyes. (various references)

   

Tahitian

  

'ahuru. (various references)

   

Thai

  

เป็นจำนวนสิบ, จำนวนสิบ. (various references)

   

Tswana

  

some, masome (tens), lesome, bosome. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

on (deca-). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

on. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

десять, десяток (decade). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

số mười nhóm mười, mười, chục. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

deng, deg. (various references)

   

Wolof

  

fukki, fukk. (various references)

   

Xhosa

  

ishumi, elishumi. (various references)

   

Zulu

  

ishumi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Ten

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

2. u, ha. (various references)

Greek700 BCE-300 CE

deka. (various references)

Avestan200-600

dasa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Ten

LanguageDateSourceMatthew Chapter 18, Verse 24
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintArxamenou de autou sunairein proshnecqh autw eiV ofeilethV muriwn talantwn
Latin405VulgateEt cum coepisset rationem ponere oblatus est ei unus qui debebat decem milia talenta
Old English990West Saxon& þa he þt ge-rad sette. hym wæs anbroht se him scolde teon þusend punde.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd whanne he bigan to rekene, oon that ouyte ten thousynde talentis, was brouyt to hym.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd when he had begone to recken one was broughte vnto him whiche ought him ten thousande talentis:
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd when he had begun to reckon, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Ten

LanguageMatthew Chapter 18, Verse 24
CebuanoSa pagsugod niya sa husay, gipaatubang kaniya ang usa nga nakautang kaniyag napulo ka libo ka talanton;
Chinese纔 算 的 時 候 、 有 人 帶 了 一 個 欠 一 千 萬 銀 子 的 來 。
CroatianKad zapoèe obraèunavati, dovedoše mu jednoga koji mu dugovaše deset tisuæa talenata.
DanishMen da han begyndte at holde Regnskab, blev en, som var ti Tusinde Talenter skyldig, ført frem for ham.
DutchAls hij nu begon te rekenen, werd tot hem gebracht een, die hem schuldig was tien duizend talenten.
FinnishMutta kun tällä ei ollut, millä maksaa, niin hänen herransa määräsi myytäväksi hänet ja hänen vaimonsa ja lapsensa ja kaikki, mitä hänellä oli, ja velan maksettavaksi.
FrenchQuand il se mit à compter, on lui en amena un qui devait dix mille talents.
GermanUnd als er anfing zu rechnen, kam ihm einer vor, der war ihm zehntausend Pfund schuldig.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariWaktu ia mulai mengadakan pemeriksaan, dihadapkan kepadanya seorang hamba yang berutang berjuta-juta,
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaApabila dimulainya menjelaskan kira-kira itu, dibawa oranglah kepadanya seorang yang berutang uang selaksa talenta.
ItalianIncominciati i conti, gli fu presentato uno che gli era debitore di diecimila talenti.
Manx GaelicAs tra v'eh er n'yannoo toshiaght dy choontey, haink fer huggey va lhiastyn da jeih thousane talent.
MaoriA, ka timata ia te ui, ka kawea ki a ia he tangata, tekau mano nga taranata i a ia.
NorwegianMen da han begynte på opgjøret, blev en ført frem for ham, som skyldte ti tusen talenter.
Portuguesee, tendo começado a tomá-las, foi-lhe apresentado um que lhe devia dez mil talentos;   
RumanianA knceput sq facq socoteala, wi i-au adus pe unul, care ki datora zece mii de galbeni.
RussianЛПЗДБ ОБЮБМ ПО УЮЙФБФШУС, РТЙЧЕДЕО ВЩМ Л ОЕНХ ОЕЛФП, ЛПФПТЩК ДПМЦЕО ВЩМ ЕНХ ДЕУСФШ ФЩУСЮ ФБМБОФПЧ;
ShuarYama Nánkamuk Tí nukap tumashmakua nuna untsukmai. Akikmakchamnia ti tumashmakuyi.
SwahiliUkaguzi ulipoanza, akaletewa mtu mmoja aliyekuwa na deni la fedha talanta elfu kumi.
SwedishOch när han begynte hålla räkenskap, förde man fram till honom en som var skyldig honom tio tusen pund*.
UmaLomo' -na, ria hadua batua rakeni hi nyanyoa-na to mo'inta hi juta-na.

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ten

Derivations

Words beginning with "ten": tenabilities, tenability, tenable, tenableness, tenablenesses, tenably, tenace, tenaces, tenacious, tenaciously, tenaciousness, tenaciousnesses, tenacities, tenacity, tenacula, tenaculum, tenaculums, tenail, tenaille, tenailles, tenails, tenancies, tenancy, tenant, tenantable, tenanted, tenanting, tenantless, tenantries, tenantry, tenants, tench, tenches, tend, tendance, tendances, tended, tendence, tendences, tendencies, tendencious, tendency, tendentious, tendentiously, tendentiousness, tendentiousnesses, tender, tendered, tenderer, tenderers, tenderest. (additional references)

Words ending with "ten": backbitten, batten, beaten, begotten, bitten, boughten, brighten, browbeaten, chasten, christen, cowritten, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, fasten, fatten, flatten, foreshorten, forgotten, foughten, frighten, frostbitten, gemeinschaften, gesellschaften, gestalten, ghostwritten, glisten, gluten, gotten, greaten, grutten, handwritten, hapten, hasten, hearten, heighten, kindergarten, kitten, laten, latten, lenten, lighten, listen, litten, marten, misbegotten, miseaten, miswritten, mitten, moisten, molten. (additional references)

Words containing "ten": absoluteness, absolutenesses, abstention, abstentions, abstentious, accurateness, accuratenesses, acuteness, acutenesses, adequateness, adequatenesses, advertence, advertences, advertencies, advertency, advertent, advertently, aggregateness, aggregatenesses, angiotensin, angiotensins, animateness, animatenesses, antenatal, antenatally, antenna, antennae, antennal, antennas, antennular, antennule, antennules, antenuptial, antihypertensive, antihypertensives, appetence, appetences, appetencies, appetency, appetent, appositeness, appositenesses, appropriateness, appropriatenesses, appurtenance, appurtenances, appurtenant, appurtenants, articulateness, articulatenesses, arytenoid. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Ten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dten, enn, etien, etm, etn, etno, etx, ften, Iten, itin, qte, tann, tanq, tce, Tdex, te, tean, teb, tef, tegn, teh, tein, tej, tena, tenc, teng, teni, tenk, tenn, teno, tenu, tenv, tenz, tep, teq, tes, teu, teun, tev, tewn, tex, tey, tez, Tfe, tien, tikn, tiln, tinn, tion, tlem, tmn, tn, Tonn, tpn, tren, trn, tuen, tumn, Tvel, twen, Tyen, tyn, tze, tzen, uen, utin, xen, zenn. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Ten"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ten" (pronounced te"n)
2-e" nagain, amen, Ben, Benne, bren, cayenne, comedienne, den, en, Glen, handymen, hen, Ken, lawmen, Madeleine, men, oilmen, patrolmen, pen, pitchmen, Sen, then, Wen, when, Wren, yen.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Ten

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: net.

Words within the letters "e-n-t"

-1 letter: en, et, ne.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-t"
 

+1 letter: ante, bent, cent, dent, etna, gent, hent, kent, lent, neat, nest, nets, nett, newt, next, nite, note, pent, rent, sent, teen, tend, tens, tent, tern, then, tine, tone, tune, tyne, vent, went.

 

+2 letters: agent, ament, anent, antae, anted, antes, antre, atone, bents, beton, blent, brent, cento, cents, centu, conte, dents, eaten, elint, enact, enate, enter, entia, entry, etnas, event, feint, genet, gents, hents, inept, inert, inlet, inset, inter, jeton, knelt, laten, leant, lento, lunet, meant, menta, monte, nates, neath, neats, neist, nerts, nertz, nests, netop, netts, netty, newts, niter, nites, nitre, nonet, noted, noter, notes, oaten, often, onset, paten, rente, rents, scent, sente, senti, seton, shent, spent, stane, stein, steno, stern, stone, taken, teens, teeny, teind, tench, tends, tenet, tenge, tenia, tenon, tenor, tense, tenth, tents, tenty, terne, terns, thane, thegn, thein, thens, thine, tinea, tined, tines, tinge, token, toned, toner, tones, toney, tonne, treen, trend, trine, trone, tuned, tuner, tunes, tween, twine, tyned, tynes, unite, unlet, unmet, unset, untie, vents, yenta, yente.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Frequency
17. Names: Derived from
18. Names: Company Usage
19. Expressions
20. Expressions: Internet
21. Translations: Modern
22. Translations: Ancient
23. Bible Trace
24. Abbreviations
25. Acronyms
26. Derivations
27. Rhymes
28. Anagrams
29. Bibliography


  

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